Quatermain is back!

Rating: 6/10 (6 December 2000)

Hey yo, a genre thought dead has returned to the kind of glory it had when Indiana Jones and Quatermain were big - the fantasy adventure genre!
Glory of course is a relative term - this movie is all in all just plain silly and has no emotionally deep moment at all - but the film does not fail to entertain in its own very simple approach: Mummy bad, kill mummy!
When I was a kid, I liked movies like this. As an adult who still does have fun watching the occasional James Bond movie, I think the Mummy is too much of everything: Too many too simple cliches, too many too one-dimensional characters and too many too foreseeable slapstick gags. Indiana Jones is still in a league of its own, and the Mummy may have been a huge surprise success in theaters, but will be forgotten very quickly.