Brainless entertainment

Rating: 6/10 (31 May 2001)

Put your brain in screensaver mode. "The Mummy Returns" is hysterical, violent, paces like a jet fighter and once off the ground, never pauses. The story does to egyptology what you do to an annoying bug on the ground - but it is nevertheless entertaining and quickly forgotten. A great matinÃ© movie. There are no real surprises, though - except for Rachel Weisz who has somehow acquired some sort of ancient Egyptian (?) martial art. It seems that every movie must have one or two scenes of martial arts fighting after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". But what the heck. I never expected anything intelligent anyway.