The last 30 minutes of the movie are amazing (for all the wrong reasons)

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2020)

I have fun watching the movie, again. I think that, funny enough, here you feel more the dated CGI than in the 1999 film (cof cof Scorpion King cof cof). I'm totally analyzing this movie through a whole different perspective tho.
First, the good stuff. I like the first 1/3 of the movie for real, the scenes in the tombs and in London are cool, some good scenes, and that fight with the Mummy on the bus is great. I like Evelyn a whole lot more this time around, she is a badass, even though I still not shipping them as a couple. She at least isn't totally helpless.
Again, Fraser is great as the lead. And at first, I didn't like the kid, but afterwards I loved his chemistry with his uncle. The movie definitely goes for a more comic tone than the first one.
Right when they meet the balloon guy, the movie lost me a bit. Here we have some truly bad CGI moments (with the night sky, and also the part at the lake with the face). And man, that whole Evelyn is actually a reincarnation too was horrible. This and the whole "I have a tattoo that says something" stuff with Rick is just bad, and used as a reason to tie everything together (but did we really need this?). The next 1/3 of the movie lost me again. Also, where was this reincarnation of Anck Su Namun in the first movie? C'mon, don't do that. Everything here goes against what they did in the first movie.
The third act tho. My god the third act. I love everything about it (mostly the last 30 minutes). But for all the wrong reasons. Of course, the kid resurrects his mom! Anck Su Namun leaves Imhotep to die lmao. And MY GOD the Scorpion King! I love every minute he's on screen. Is so bad, but so damn entertaining. And of course, who didn't see the ex machina factor coming a mile away at the end?
This is by no means a better film than The Mummy (1999), it manages to have some truly awful CGI (and being known for it) even tho it was released 2 years after the original. However, the first 30/40% of the movie are good, the next 30/40% are bad, but the last 20/30% are freaking awesome, the big fight scene with a CGI The Rock against young Brendan Fraser. I can't wait to watch The Scorpion King.