They just HAD to make a sequel, didn't they!?!

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2002)

(POSSIBLE SPOILERS) From the guy who brought you the original! The original was great right? Right! The sequel should be better, right? Hell, no!! Stephen Sommers, writer and director of the 1999 hit, THE MUMMY brings us THE MUMMY RETURNS, one of the biggest action adventures ever made! Now, let's start by saying that I like this movie. The plot is good. The story is good. Everything is fine! There are a few corny performances, but other than that, everything is good. Except that Sommers did not know how to handle this concept.
He got too damn anxious to put a sequel out so he could make more money, that he didn't care what he wrote down for a script. So, no less than five minutes into the movie, the action starts. Then about ten minutes later it stops for about another five minutes and then the action starts again and doesn't stop for the rest of the movie! The action never stops! No one takes a breather, no one even has time to take a leak! There is just so much action, that it eventually becomes boring. Sommers just kept on writing down action. He also started the story in the middle. What did he do? Lose the first five pages of the script? Because the movie starts with the previous film's stars Brendan Fraser and Rachael Weisz in a temple somewhere. Then these guys come along with no notion as to who sent them. Then after that scene is over a couple minutes later, we get to this dig site where people are finding Imhotep's body (with no explanation as to why) and the person behind all of this is Anck-Su-Namn (some Egyptian woman from the first movie who was dead) and there is not explanation as to why she is alive!! Doesn't this seem odd to anyone?
Well, anyway I'm done complaining. If you don't like this movie, don't say I didn't warn you!
THE MUMMY RETURNS gets 2/5.