Blah.

Rating: 3/10 (8 May 2001)

This movie is totally unsatisfying -- even on an eye candy level. The characters are 2 dimensional, the action has no purpose or sense and there's never any feeling of suspense here. You know the bad guys cannot shoot the good guys. You know death is reversable. You know everything will work out fine.
I hate when scripts telegraph every plot point as done here. From the moment I saw the sceptre, I knew it was obviously going to play a key part in the hero's survival.
Just once I'd like to be surprised by something subtle. I guess I shouldn't expect subtlety from a movie like The Mummy Returns.
I think the effects (especially the lame animated Scorpion King) were nothing to rave about. The only thing that was kinda impressive was the battle scenes with Anubis' army -- they were pretty cool.

Does anyone else have a problem with the fact that the mummy warriors were able to burst through a brick wall, but were affected by Rick's punches?

Anyway, I think the worst part of the movie is that it made 70 million dollars already, thus prolonging Brendan Fraser's career. While I find him likeable in interviews and I enjoyed Monkeybone, he 's a god-awful actor, especially as a leading man.