Bitterly Disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2001)

I was really excited about seeing this movie when it first came out, but after watching it, i wondered why I bothered. No wonder the critics gave this a mauling.
Virtually the whole cast returns from the original, but this time a more powerful mummy, the Scorpion King, comes in as the main player. Except he only plays in the movie for about 5minutes. The acting is what you normally expect from a blockbuster - nothing spectacular, nothing horrendous. Granted, there's plenty of action but the SFX really take most of it away, bar the battle scenes. Did anyone else not think that the SFX weren't even that great? It was so toy-storyish that it didn't really fit in...for example, THAT blimp, those little killer munchkins and the computer-generated face of the rock - what the hell was that all about? It seemed like the director really had the cash to splash out on nonsense like that. It's also amazing how the first film centred around on how difficult it was to ressurrect the original mummy, yet in this one it is like an every day procedure.
This is Hollywood at its best: SFX heavy and a predictable, cheesy plot - and this Cheese has gone off a long time ago. Shame on Stephen Sommers cos he showed real promise with such fun flicks as Deep Rising and the original Mummy. Oh well...