You, too, will believe that an ancient undead priest can turn himself into a whirlwind and attack an airplane with mummy magic.Īnd that's saying nothing about all the fight choreography, which is also great! The best is obviously the scene on the boat, where the rival crews searching for the lost city are attacked by the Medjai looking for Evie's map, and she yanks Rick back from being blown apart by a bunch of gunshots while he's busy reloading.
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Nothing actually comes of that, which is insane, but the point is: For a movie made in 1999 and without the crazy-talented VFX departments blockbusters of today have on speed-dial, the special effects - which involve either sand or bugs - still look really good to this day. In the movie's second big sequence, in which Rick and his fellow French Foreign Legion officers are trying to protect the ruined city of Hamunaptra from Tuareg soldiers charging at them on horseback, the spirit of the dead is awakened, and a huge face (!!!) arises from the sand and gapes (?) its giant mouth (!?!?!?) open. And then there's the scene by the fire where they ALMOST kiss, and you're sitting there on the edge of your couch clutching a pillow without realizing what you're doing, and you've forgotten about the bowl of ice cream you made for yourself which is melting on the table because the movie is TOO GOOD.Īnd then there's horseback-riding Medjai warrior Ardeth Bay (Oded Fehr), who was supposed to be tattooed all over before Stephen Sommers saw what he looked like and said, no, hiding that incredible face would be a DAMN CRIME. Evie and Rick's chemistry is unbearable from their very first meeting, you want desperately for them to kiss, and then they DO kiss, and you spend the whole movie wanting them to kiss AGAIN.
Occasionally a scarf.Įvelyn, on the other hand, is played by Rachel Weisz, who has always been stunning, and who is particularly so in this movie. Rick is Brendan Fraser at his most swashbuckling: he wears the traditional early-1900s adventurer uniform the whole time, which is basically a shirt that won't be buttoned all the way up, some tight pants, and a leather shoulder holster. In The Mummy, Rick O'Connell, played by Brendan Fraser, is a treasure hunter who agrees to take Evelyn Carnahan, a librarian and Egyptologist, and her brother to Hamunaptra, the ancient Egyptian city of the dead, where tons of inscriptions and treasure are probably buried. I've got two words for you: Rick O'Connell. There's a reason everyone of a certain generation grew up desperately attracted to "bad boys" with middle parts. (Yes, The Mummy spawned two sequels and a spinoff franchise in The Scorpion King, but it did that without any post-credits scenes or cliffhanger endings.) The Mummy belongs to a more carefree era, where blockbusters were made for a fraction of today's price and not everything had to set up a franchise. It makes low-budget, sharply-directed action movies like John Wick really stand out.
Straight-up action movies now are tonally more serious, and the flashier, more fun movies have gigantic budgets and usually a couple of superheroes or dinosaurs or X-wings. There was a distinct shift in the early-to-mid-2000s, starting with X-Men and Spider-Man, that the major studios got really into comic book movies that make tons of money and are easy enough to build franchises around, and now Marvel and DC have pretty much taken over where "action-adventure" left off. The 1999 Mummy marked the beginning of the end of the "action-adventure" era of blockbuster movies, which gave us other great stuff like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, the Pierce Brosnan era of James Bond, Ocean's Eleven, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
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If you are in the mood for a movie that has action, romance, horror, weird CGI sand, bugs that burrow under your skin and eat you from the inside out, a cat, ancient Egyptian "history," this is the movie for you.
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