Celebrating with the Mummy 3

Posted by Eavan on Aug 1, 2008 • (0)

Finally, we’re done cleaning up the flood damage. By “we”, I mean my friends and I, of course. I don’t know about other people, some might still be cleaning up. I’m a little disappointed, though, since now there’s no reason for us to hang out everyday. How sad.

Anyway, we decided to celebrate today by going to see the new Mummy movie, knowing how big a Mummy fan I am. I have to say that I was severely disappointed.

I initially did not want to see the movie, due to casting changes. We have what’s her face replacing our lovely Rachel Weiz and I have to say, I did not like it one bit. But I decided to give the movie a chance because Jet Li was appearing in it, on a plus side we still had Brendan Fraser and John Hannah to light up the screen.

The movie was a big “let’s get there” and not enough “we have to fight the mummy!” While the idea was very interesting, it wasn’t played out to its fullest. There were random things thrown in there here and there, when the group got stumped, suddenly they had someone to save the day! AKA the yeti, or Mad Dog (who I never heard of before M3, shocking enough). It was destiny working in “mysterious ways”, apparently, and getting everyone together in one place so the action could happen. It just took to long for said action to occur, and I was pretty bored and jittery by the time the action came.

The action was… tame, considering the other Mummy movies. There was more “explody” bits than usual, but the reawakened Emperor was supposed to have “power over the five elements”. I only saw two-three elements being used throughout the movie. The directors did not take full advantage of the Emperor’s powers and his army was wasted.

Why did the good mummies have to be reawakened? They didn’t do anything, except provide the best comedic scenes in the entire movie, and the O’Connells could have taken care of the Emperor’s army easily. They were portrayed as pretty wimpy.

There was no chemistry between the actors, except for Fraser and Hannah, the others just didn’t seem to fit in. Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh were seriously misused and their scenes could have been much better. They felt like guest appearances in a movie that was mostly family drama. My first thought at the start of the movie was, “How old is Alex supposed to be? He looks so OLD and his parents so YOUNG!” It just didn’t fit. And I also kept wondering which Emperor Jet Li was supposed to be, they never mentioned and I had to look it up.

As a die-hard Mummy fan, I was so disappointed I cried during the movie. I think I was hoping Rick would stay dead and that would teach his ungrateful son for being so freaking ungrateful. I would die to have Rick O’Connell as my father