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Mummy 3 Review
2008-08-12 1:38AM / 標準BLOG / US Movie Review / 會員可以看
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6/10 Movie: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

The nice thing about Rotten Tomatoes' tomatometer is that it helps inform you... it tells you if a movie is good, and it tells you if a movie is not so good.... there's a cliched saying 'Knowledge is Power', but in the case of movies, this is true... because watching a bad movie can still be quite enjoyable... but at the same time, expecting a movie to be good but finding out its not can be very disappointing.

I try to go into all movies with muted expectations, but in the case of Mummy 3, knowing it was at 12% on the tomatometer made those expectations even more muted.... which led me to ACTUALLY ENJOY this film...

For some reason they decided to rehash this franchise for a 3rd time, I guess if Indy can do it, so can the Indy-rip-offs, right?

The film feels really frenetic and all over the place, and the dialogue is pretty flat at some points (well, almost all points)... but that doesn't mean the film is boring or too horrible to enjoy purely as a popcorn film...

This chapter in the Mummy story is set many years later and now the main characters from the previous movie have a kid and are retired form the tomb raiding biz... til the government pursuedes them to do one more job (yes, sounds a lot like Indiana Jones, doesn't it? just wait til the part where they have to pour magic immortality water over the dying father!)

In this case Brendan Fraiser and his played-by-a-not-as-attractive-or-interesting-actress wife end up going to civil war era China and end up fighting to stop the resurrected Mummy of The First Emperor of China (played by Jet Li of course), who had a curse placed on him to turn him into terracotta (see, those statues in the tomb weren't just statues, they were actually real people turned into clay (and then fired into pottery) by... MAGIC! Note that they never actually call him 'Qin Shihuangdi', I'm guessing they were afraid of pissing off some crazed Chinese internet people if they explicitly toyed with real Chinese historical figures. (but keep in mind that the Chinese government bans movies about ghosts and magic anyway...)

Aside from the dialogue and frenetic directing problems, the story's fundamental premise that Brenden Fraiser is a retired adventurer with a 20 year old kid doesn't really wash... and the replacement Racheal Weiss just doesn't work for me either.

Its nice to see Russell Wong is still getting work, but seems out of place too... Anthony Wong does a good job in his part as the Warlord general. I'm guessing there's supposed to be more back story on him and his weird scar nazi girlfriend, but it seems to have been cut. Isabella Leong was good, but her character was too 1 dimensional, and Michelle Yeoh was underused... and so, of course, was Jet... I wonder how many days he actually spent filming, since he only appears in 'human form' in a few scenes, most of the movie he's all CGed up as /Mummy Jet/... :-P

All that said the action and visual effects were relatively decent and entertaining... sets were not bad too (i think thats the same Old Shanghai street they used in Blood Brothers and probably 50 other movies).

Etchy's Verdict: Sit back, relax, don't think too hard and don't mind the Yetis... if you can to that, you should enjoy it. I'll give it a 6.000/10, as marginal a 'fresh' as I can. :-P

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saori
留言於2008-08-18 10:50PM [举报]

I went to yesterday,I watched this movie!!
So Enjoy,Fan,Cool,Excited.
But so sad things was Weisz donot act as Evelyn.
She was Exotic to me.
xttpvcfi
留言於2008-08-14 1:27PM [举报]

杰叔很帥哦~~~~~~~~~
Etchy
留言於2008-08-14 2:12AM

ha, yes, like i said... don't mind the yeti! :-P
Derrick Fong
留言於2008-08-14 2:04AM [举报]

3 WORDS:
YETI FIELD GOAL.

..........EPIC FAIL..
GCLane
留言於2008-08-13 10:35AM [举报]

I was somewhat dissapointed with this one :/ Although I love Jet and Brandon that scarry fake woman that was his wife made me not want to watch the movie :O I was hoping there was going to be more Mummy in it but, it was more about family relations instead of the mummy this time. I guess if they had the Original mother it would have been better but, I still love those movies anyway :D
sunshine0210
留言於2008-08-13 9:15AM [举报]

Shorty - the only information you need from the first 2 is that Rick and his wife were active expeditioners and they are on retirement in the 3rd...and oh, yes, rick killed the same mummy - twice! : D
Etchy
留言於2008-08-13 12:43AM

eric - yes at least ghosts. After seeing how superstitious hongkies are I can't blame the ccp for trying to cure the Chinese people of this 'old'
Gogi Nebulana
留言於2008-08-13 12:20AM [举报]

i cant wait to wacth it!!
eyeh
留言於2008-08-12 11:53PM [举报]

What, movies about ghosts and magic are banned?

If this is the case, how will the children of 20% of the world's population know the magic of Harry Potter? :p
JoanneSanderson
留言於2008-08-12 4:59PM [举报]

oh so they've done to Jet what they did to The Rock. I was quite disappointed with the results of number two. I still want to see this, but the 20 year old kid and new evie, just isn't sitting well with me.
Etchy
留言於2008-08-12 9:42AM

shorty - yes, i think you should see the first two, otherwise this film will not be interesting... as there is little time spent filling in the backstory of the characters...
RenRen
留言於2008-08-12 9:21AM [举报]

I think I'm going to take my dad to go watch it. He likes Jet Li.
Justice Vancho
留言於2008-08-12 9:05AM [举报]

I wouldn't give it a six, that's too high for me heh. Only reason I sat through the movie was the chance to see what Jet and Michelle would do.

The effects were really good though so I give it an 8 in that regard.
shorty
留言於2008-08-12 4:01AM [举报]

Oh, crap, is my mummy gonna be disappointed? It sounds like you were generous with your six. Aw man! I was expecting something great. Now I gotta go tell my mum not to expect much from it. She keeps saying "we have to see the first two first!" and I keep telling her we don't. Do we? I mean, I'm sure there are references, but I don't think it's necessary. Yeah, we haven't seen the first two.
Etchy
留言於2008-08-12 2:58AM

scottie - i forgot to mention it, but i did too!

they're making another scorpion king?!?
許懷谷
留言於2008-08-12 2:55AM [举报]

I actually liked it better than the 2nd...is that wrong? Can't wait to see your review on the scorpion king 2 when it comes out. hahahaha.
pepe
留言於2008-08-12 2:04AM [举报]

Wohow..thanks 4 the review..
JRS
留言於2008-08-12 1:45AM [举报]

I can't believe it took you this long to go see the "NUMBER ONE MOVIE IN THE WORLD!!!" haha! Did you read my review? I think we pretty much agree on most points. It's a good entertainment flick....nothing earth-shattering which is why it worked for me. =)