Mummify the man that turned this into a comedy !

Rating: 4/10 (1 April 2002)

"The Mummy" had all the ingredients to be a great action/adventure movie like "Indiana Jones" or "Romancing the Stone". Unfortunately, somewhere along the production line, somebody decided to turn this thing into a comedy, and a bad one at that. This decision has to be one of the ten worst decisions ever made...
Truly, the potential for something great was there, but this movie is filled with so many dull jokes that it becomes really annoying. Also, the main characters seem very reluctant to die and survive the most implausible situations completely undamaged. At one point, we even see a character being dragged away by hordes of undead, only to have him resurface unharmed at the end of the movie ! The corny jokes combined with the invulnerability of the main characters take away any kind of suspense and make the movie quite dull.
*1/2 out of **** stars (mainly for the special effects)