It's Okay but I would have liked a plot

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2001)

I am a big fan of the first movie and the genre itself but there were some undeniable problems with the Mummy returns. Way too long. Way too loud. The movie is set up so we move from set-piece to action scene without any reason. Great action scenes. I felt the wind in my hair but after 60 minutes of following our heroes, I wanted a twist, a turn, a surprise. (Her past life was no surprise, the pigmies from hell are no twist) Movies like this are treasure hunts. Each stop you make you learn something! Each piece is another slice of the big picture. Like Indiana Jones, each piece of the puzzle must be earned. And lastly at the climax some new fact adds/changes everything, (her fake death was a cop-out) In fact, the movie was a cop-out. What did Sommers do? Spend a weekend watching adventure films and piece together his favorites? I mean, it was like he threw everything at us. The balloon, the double decker bus, the reincarnated angle, the dead army, the mummy, his chick, the kid, the Flood, The bugs and the pigmies!!!
This is all thrown sloppily at the screen in hopes viewers are so tired, they won't care. And with 70 million at the box office, I really don't think anyone will care. So we can look forward to more mindless adventure films in the future. Films like this one --
simply put --- Have no Heart. ............................