Remarkable only for the amount of 3D effects thrown at the screen.

Rating: 1/10 (7 May 2001)

This movie is unremarkable except for the amount of 3D effects which are thrown at the audience. I went to the film with very low expectations, expecting a fun-but-dumb action movie - and was very disappointed. There are so many action sequences lined up (one after the other) that the whole thing feels like an amusement park ride and not much else. It seems as if the camera/directing crew ran about shooting a whole bagload of sequences, and then tried to cram all the effects they could back into each one until they felt "right" or good enough to splice together to present in theaters. I think I even saw a scene with one of the extras in the background, trying to run off camera. As for the Egyptian theme of the work: there was one authentic-looking box which contained the stylistically strange "scorpion bracer," and there was an outdoor shot of Abu Simbel which looked very nice but was an obvious model. That's about it for accuracy. Everything else is either a hodge-podge of other historic styles, or has a lumpy we-had-a-tatoo-artist-design-this look to it. Watch Indy Jones again if you want a great adventure film, or even Karloff's Mummy - it would be a better use of your time.