Another magnificent piece from Sommers

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2004)

Truly an adventure film with instant action, fast paced, makes you forgot about time and drags you right in.
The cast is good to great, I can't complain about The Rock (a wrester in real life) is perfectly cast (representing a great warrior), Voslo and Velasquez as villains are also very good, less fits in my opinion the good characters represented by Frazer and Weisz.
A blazing cinematography (CGI used everywhere, battles of tens of thousands (!) of warriors). The ancient Egypt and pyramids never looked so vivid and great as in this "motion picture".
Story is simple and straight as a good tale and adventure should be. There are also some grotesque side stories (John Hannah really makes me laugh at times), the film seams to never get boring for me (I've seen it more then once, it even gets better when you see it a second time).
Sound soundtrack from Silvestry (a very adventure like one, his style seams to fit to this kind of films well, he scores another adventure film L.Croft Cradle of life recently with soundtrack very close to this one).

You can also look at it as a great tale and watch it with you young kids, they will be well entertained too.
I give it 9/10 for the year of 2001.