The Mummy (1999)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah
Synopsis:
Imhotep, the Pharaoh's high priest, defiles the royal concubine and is sentenced to the slow death. Three thousand years later, various adventurers swoop on the lost city of Hamunaptra in search of treasure and inadvertently awaken him.
Review:
The mixture more or less as before: ominous warnings by ethnic egyptologists, irresponsible western desecrators pursued one by one by lumbering shapes and guttering candles. The novelty here is that although it is truly more horrible than any of its predecessors - though not necessarily more atmospheric - it is played like an Indiana Jones adventure, with laughs, romance, and special effects by the dozen, not to mention borrowings from films as removed as Jason and the Argonauts.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah
Synopsis:
Imhotep, the Pharaoh's high priest, defiles the royal concubine and is sentenced to the slow death. Three thousand years later, various adventurers swoop on the lost city of Hamunaptra in search of treasure and inadvertently awaken him.
Review:
The mixture more or less as before: ominous warnings by ethnic egyptologists, irresponsible western desecrators pursued one by one by lumbering shapes and guttering candles. The novelty here is that although it is truly more horrible than any of its predecessors - though not necessarily more atmospheric - it is played like an Indiana Jones adventure, with laughs, romance, and special effects by the dozen, not to mention borrowings from films as removed as Jason and the Argonauts.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah
Synopsis:
Imhotep, the Pharaoh's high priest, defiles the royal concubine and is sentenced to the slow death. Three thousand years later, various adventurers swoop on the lost city of Hamunaptra in search of treasure and inadvertently awaken him.
Review:
The mixture more or less as before: ominous warnings by ethnic egyptologists, irresponsible western desecrators pursued one by one by lumbering shapes and guttering candles. The novelty here is that although it is truly more horrible than any of its predecessors - though not necessarily more atmospheric - it is played like an Indiana Jones adventure, with laughs, romance, and special effects by the dozen, not to mention borrowings from films as removed as Jason and the Argonauts.