A little to "big"

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2001)

I feel a little cheated. I am a big fan of the 1999 Mummy and have seen it close to 25 times. It was not an Oscar worthy movie by any means but it just "clicked". The dialog was good (and humorous), the story line interesting, the action exciting and the characters worked well together. The chemistry between Brendan and Rachel was good. Now, as for the sequel, well, I was a bit disappointed. Gone was the chemistry between the two main characters; the dialog was not as good or as important to the storyline which was going in too many directions; and too many extraneous characters were added. More time and money was obviously spent on special effects. The storyline of the reincarnation of Evie was a good twist, but it was much more fun to hate one bad Mummy in the first movie than to worry about 2 bad guys here. Lastly, I am wondering why they are promoting The Rock so much for this movie when he was on screen for all of about 10 minutes, and yes, I do know they are working on THAT movie now. As a summer action flick, it delivers, but for those of us seeking the same "charm" of the first movie, I came away feeling empty.