Where's the Exposition?

Rating: 5/10 (23 May 2001)

I only feel lucky that I made it through the first hour. The opening sequence with the Rock as the Scorpion King was excellant, but had I known that a prefessional wrestler would be putting forth the most believable perfomance of the movie I would have left after that.
I respected the original "The Mummy" as a rather funny and well done take on the whole Indiana Jones genre of movies - but this seemed to be way too over the top, with little regard for anything but action. We get no explaination for the son that is suddenly in the picture, or the mansion that they seemed to have stocked with every archeology piece known to man. All we get is some handwaving - "look at our cool mummies!" We even get a huge computer animated scorpion king, which really looks plastic and inferior to the animation from Spawn, which predates this movie by at least four years.
The closing action, and the view into the human side of Imhotep, as well as the very nice background for his origin are what save this movie.
Probably best watched after you re-watch the Mummy.