Synopsis: With Rick and Evelyn O’Connell retired their son Alex stumbles across the tomb of the dragon empire. As things get out of hand and the emperor is awakened Rick and Evelyn find themselves back into adventure as they try to solve family problems with their son and save the world from the un-dead Chinese terracotta army.
I did not feel the same buzz I felt when watching the first mummy film, maybe because I had not seen a film like it before or maybe because the third part of the trilogy was and effortless revamp of a franchise that was made to make money. There was no heart and soul put into the script as most of what I was watching was predictable even though I did not expect the arrival of the yetis in one of the scenes that come running out from behind the mountains, even though they look good digitally, I feel that they made the film worse . The replacement of Rachel Weisz makes the relationship between Rick O’Connell and Evelyn O’Connell seem a bit artificial compared to the previous films as Maria Bello looks uneasy trying to live up to previous performances and doesn’t come close to delivering. The dialogue is poor throughout the film as they try to make jokes that are not that funny but what do you expect with one liners like “yeah same mummy, twice” as Brendon Frasier argues with his son (Luke Ford) that looks 10 years younger than him. I thought Jet Li was going to be in more of the film but for half it the mummy was played by a CGI terracotta statue which I didn’t mind because the effects where cool but I feel they could of done a lot more with his martial arts skills. While John Hannah is really the funniest part of the film playing the scared brother in law who ends up somehow getting involved in the adventure even though he shouldn’t be there and it’s as if he was put into the film to make it better than what the film actually is.
Worth seeing in the cinema: No (Shouldn’t rush out to see it if you want to)
Worth buying on DVD: YES (Only to complete the mummy DVD collection)
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