Flat out awful, and time has not been kind.

Rating: 2/10 (26 February 2008)

This movie was a huge hit when it opened in 2001, and that can be basically be attributed to marketing, the huge CGI presence (back when CGI was still kind of new and fun), and the big screen debut of The Rock. But when I caught this on cable again the other night, I was asking myself all over again how such a loud, annoying, pointless mess could have sold so many tickets? Interesting that the third Mummy movie has taken more than seven years to get off the ground, I think perhaps the studio (or maybe even the filmmakers) knew that audiences would need years to forget how bad the first two in the series were before plunking their money down again. I'm ALMOST glad I caught this on TV, because I will definitely remember how bad these films are next summer and NOT be seeing Mummy 3, no matter how much marketing they hit us with.