Worthy Sequel

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2001)

Time for truth...Along with the Aliens, Mummy Returns is definitely better-than-its-original sequel that we're not oftenly see. All of the original cast has returned, and gave their unique, brilliant performances. Brendan Fraser is superb as always, I think he is the future Bruce Willis in movie industry, Rachel Weisz performance is at the top (Evelyn character somehow improved and became more smarter), John Hannah is the comic relief just like he was in the first film, Oded Fehr is very cool as Ardeth Bay and finally Arnold Vosloo as Priest Imhotep is great as he was in the first. Among the newly introduced characters, the boy Alex was brilliant all the way. The story of *minor spoiler* Imhotep, Anck Su Namun and Nefertari cleverly revealed, and all the loose ends were tied together completely. You can find all that you want; action, humor, thrill, tense, jump scenes, great visual effects, story twists...The only thing I complain about is *minor spoiler* about The Scorpion King. He has very little screen time and at the end when we see his *major spoiler* scorpion form, the visual effects are not quite good compared to the other visualization in the whole picture. Other than that, Mummy Returns is a worthy sequel that really deserved to be seen. I saw it, and I will see it again.