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The Mummy

**1/2

Review by Marty Mapes

published May 13, 1999

There’s too much use of computer-generated graphics; this movie looks like a video game. The screenplay is dumb and obvious. They didn’t even capitalize on the beautiful desert cinematography. Yet in spite of all the obvious and plentiful flaws, I had a great time at this movie. It’s a heck of a lot of fun. Brendan Fraser is endlessly watchable and the mummy fight scenes are some great pieces of adventure filmmaking. I can’t seriously recommend it, but I certainly did enjoy it.

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1999

See Also

Deep Rising, 1998, Stephen Sommers, the director's first movie. Actually, don't "see also" because Deep Rising is pretty awful, but there are many similarities. Looks like Sommers hasn't forgotten his friends or his roots.