Laughably bad.

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2001)

This isn't an awful movie. No, not awful, but a long way from a really good one. For a summer action/adventure movie this one holds no surprises. Everything that is supposed to be a surprise can be seen coming too far off. I hate to ruin a movie for anybody, but trust me, you will know a major piece of how the movie will end in the first 30 minutes. It is practically waved under your nose. I think the people making this movie relied a little too heavily on our ability to suspend disbelief as well. Okay, I expect to have to just go along with several story devices in a movie like this, but don't push me too far. I can accept mummies that use martial arts (after all, I have to accept the whole Imhotep thing to even buy a ticket.) However, asking me to accept that a trip from London to Cairo only took two days in 1933 is too much.(Yes, I know that planes existed, but how do you transport the creature and his entire entourage so fast? It seems far more likely that trains and boats would be involved.) I am then asked to accept a rocket powered dirigible! And then this last device is stretched far beyond the breaking point. I'm sorry, but I think the script writers and the director could have worked just a little harder. I shouldn't have to work so hard to overlook so much just so I can enjoy a movie.