Indiana Jones Meets the Mummy?

Rating: 5/10 (2 October 1999)

I was disappointed in this movie. I was expecting to see a remake of the 1932 (Karloff) and 1959 (Christopher Lee) versions, but instead got Indiana Jones Meets the Mummy. Director Sommers doesn't seem to know if he is making a horror, adventure or comedy film.
The special effects to be sure, are state of the art, however, the producers seem to have been going for quantity rather than quality in effects. The mummy character is evil to be sure, but is way over the top. He just didn't scare me. The other "liberated" mummys are too plentiful and cartoon-like to be believable. The plague of insects looks ridiculous and obviously computer-generated.
The hero, heroine and other assorted players don't seem to take the situation too seriously. With both guns a-blazing and a devil-may-care attitude, they look like refugees from the old Saturday matinee serials. And what was the point of the heroine knocking over library bookshelves in the context of the story. And the hero's escape from the gallows? The list goes on and on.
Harrison Ford did the Indiana Jones thing much better. Karloff did the mummy character better in black & white and in 72 minutes in 1932. The Lee 1959 version was also superior and scarier.
I want my mummy back.