All Action, No Plot, & Four Bad Guys for the Price of One

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2001)

Lots of action. In fact, so much action that there was no room for a plot. Instead of a plot, we have a rerun of some of the best parts of the first Mummy (in this series). The creepy crawly flesh-eating bugs are back, but after seeing them in the 1st movie, they're now less effective than they were the first time. That great special effect from the first movie, when the Mummy commands the swirling sands as the howling outline of his face becomes visible, has now been colored blue & we see the same effect with water instead of sand. My, how original! There's only a few minutes of the "Mummy" in tattered bandages on screen, before he reverts to his youthful looking self, but who would notice? There's too many other bad guys out there to pay attention to a detail like that. We have the Mummy bad guy, the Anubis bad guy, the Scorpion King bad guy, & the Mummy's Girlfriend bad gal. Some of the baddies even fight each other instead of fighting the good guys. I'm surprised they didn't use all that extra "plot" material to make four movies instead of just this one. If you like mindless, redundant action films, this is definitely for you. If you like a bare minimum of a plot & a degree of originality, look elsewhere, or if you want some real acting & real atmosphere, watch the 1932 version with Boris Karloff. I rate it 4/10 stars (& all four were for the special effects & action).