Now why did I like this movie? It was just plain dumb fun, is why. It is absurd and preposterous, and proud of it.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
The movie bogs down in tiresome good guys vs. bad guys action cliches.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
After an hour of inert exposition, a race through Shanghai gooses the movie alive. Then it plunges back into torpor.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
This Mummy movie is really two movies: a good adventure epic, with all the Chinese people, and a wan one, with O'Connells and the other the Westerners.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Though the new film has some good things, it does not have enough of them to make the third time the charm.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Despite exotic locations, epic cinematography, and much spectacular crash and bang, this "Mummy" feels like a threadbare toss-off.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Feels perfunctory and obligatory and, despite the return of several familiar characters, is more like an afterthought than an organic third piece of a trilogy puzzle.Read Full Review »
The kindest thing to be said for this frantic, cluttered mess of cheesy computer-generated action-adventure clichés is that at least you can see how the estimated $175 million budget was spent.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Vadim Rizov
Strange how dreary it all is, and how tired Fraser seems.Read Full Review »