Promise wasted

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2007)

The first Mummy film was a great adventure. This film showed so much promise - Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, a giant wall of water, an oasis, The Scorpion King, the double-decker bus chase (ripped off from Live and Let Die), the blimp, the fight at the O'Connell's manor, the Egyptian knife-fight scene...
And yet, due to under-acting by Arnold Vosloo, his (in the film) lover, and the kid who plays Alex O'Connell, and a plot that makes no sense at all, this film falls below average... as well as The Scorpion King, who is the worst special effect seen in the twenty-first century.
The John Hannah scenes are great as always, and Rachel Weisz is channeling Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood here, but Brendan Fraser doesn't seem to be doing much. Urgh. What a mess.