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The Mummy (1999)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:43
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Flat jokes and overblown effects rubbed critics raw.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: In the 1920s, a group of archaeologists led by adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) discovers the mummified body of Imhotep, an Egyptian priest who was cursed for falling in love with the... [More]
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo
Director: Stephen Sommers
Reviews for The Mummy
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Spectacle, rowdy adventure and supernatural horror all crammed into a raucous two hours of high-testosterone special-effects filmmaking!
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We're left impressed by the effects and wondering why the filmmakers didn't even try to do anything else new and interesting.
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Being a bad movie is not always a bad thing.
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The Mummy's action scenes are adroitly staged, and they show off Fraser's rugged hero persona to best effect.
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George Lucas and Steven Spielberg pioneered this new-yet-old approach in the 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' series, and the formula is viable enough to make 'The Mummy' popular with its target teenage audience.
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All I can say is: Mummies!
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A failure in more ways than a mortal would have time to explain!
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Trades in scares and suspense for a mainstream action-adventure, all in the name of a few extra box-office bucks.
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One more overblown exercise in big budget lameness!
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The Mummy is much less a mum-walks-among-us story than a blatant rip-off of the Indiana Jones films with a sarcophagus full of dazzling computer graphics.
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The Mummy, quite shamelessly, combines the imagery and serialized thrills of the Indiana Jones movies with the frenetic special-effects energy of the Evil Dead movies, and has quite a bit of fun in doing so.
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