Some good effects, no plot

Rating: 1/10 (6 May 2001)

Mummy Returns had a few good things going for it, but none of them have to do with plot or entertainment value. The effects were okay for the most part, although the Scorpion King monster at the end was awful. The second unit photography and many of the Egyptian vistas were beautiful, and the sets were pretty good ripoffs of those in the Indiana Jones movies.
Out of all the actors, clearly Brendan Fraser was the worst. He was boring, he had nothing to do, and he wasn't funny at all. Oded Fehr was the best actor in the movie, along with the Rock. Unfortunately the Rock is only in the first five minutes of the movie, and he has almost no lines of dialogue. His CGI appearance at the end, of course, was forgettable.
This movie could have been much better -- right now it has a lot of boring, unoriginal moments.