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XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

stormhawk2018 If you've:a) Never seen the other Mummy films, but are aware of what they are. b) Like Michael Bay-esque dumb special effects pictures with quick-cutty action (cause God knows people seem to enjoy that crap) c) Have no high expectations for entertainment, then you'll probably like this film. If you're smarter and have seen the other two Mummy films, going to this one is a major shift. If you thought 2 was different from 1, get a hold of this one. Especially when watching all the films in a row it is much more jarring than I remember it to be. I saw this on TV thinking it would be okay like the previous ones, but when it ended, I said "It's AWFUL"!The main change in plot is that the mummies are no longer in Egypt, but in China and in the Great Wall and made of melted chocolate, I mean, terracotta. Alas, the execution was poor, everything is tonally different. The way its shot and the editing is hardly consistent with the last two pictures, favoring a lot of cuts and congested camera framing, making action set pieces that seem potentially fun and silly turn incomprehensible and joyless. This film falls into CG syndrome and favors a lot of CGI effects that looks like a video game. Clearly, handing the film off to a director who's had a mediocre-bad track record was bad: this is Rob Cohen ("Fast and Furious"); and a bad script written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar ("Smalville"). Even the characters aren't as fun here. Brendan Fraser seems tired and has lost his comic touch (maybe cause he's ironically older in this film). For Evy's role, Rachel Weisz (British) did a phenomenal job portraying a cute, smart and feisty librarian in the previous ones; but this time, she is replaced by the Maria Bello (American), who turns her character into a soft and fluffy bunny of woman, speaking with an unconvincing English accent. She looks like Rick's mother than his wife and the chemistry between her and Rick was poor. Even the brother Jonathan is reduced to bad comic relief, and a grown-up Alex, is played by a big-bottomed guy (Luke Ford) who looks like older than his dad (in 2008 Freddie Boath wasn't available, despite he was 17-years-old?). The saddest thing about both characters, was is that they speak with a fluid American accent when they are supposed to be Brits. The villain of this sequel is lame, while the previous mummy portrayed by Arnold Vosloo was terrifying, this new "Mummy", portrayed by Jet Li isn't intimidating and he had an only ONE fight scene.Something good...a pack of yetis who looks like white Teletubbies kicking the baddies' butts and celebrates like football players; and comes the Dragon Emperor, who is really King Ghidorah's brother. Godzilla didn't come because he is Japanese, although of course, that to America doesn't matter, because China and Japan it is the same. What is it trying to be? Fantasy? History? Myth? It ends up being a cloudy haze of a mess. In the end, after defeating the Emperor, everything is happiness and fortune cookies, and Jonathan says "I wanna go to a place without mummies...Peru, for example". The movie ends with a postscript for a fourth movie that says that years after, mummies were discovered in Peru before the screen fades to black. Maybe would be Inca mummies.If we could've just waited for Stephen Sommers, a better script, and have convinced Weisz to actually join the film with the better script (she declined this film because she disagreed with the script used), we could've had a nice return for the characters. Unfortunately, this big, dull, joyless bland return for the franchise may be the last we ever see, and its a bad way to go. Surely isn't terrible? Maybe average, right? I'm surprised to say it really is terrible. Unwatchable? Yes, it is painful to watch as you certainly feel heartbroken and insulted to see that a chance for a return for these likable characters was wasted off on a poorly executed effort like this, and to know there's likely no chance in hell we'll get another attempt to do so ever again.P.S.: For all the reviewers who said that Maria Bello is a better replacement for Evy's role; yeah sure, maybe you say it because Bello is blonde; and don't come with nonsense like changing the main actress was an improvement, comparing it with James Bond, or any other character like that. Hey guys, when "The Mummy 4" (in my country, Peru) appears, don't expect for the British R.W. (Rachel Weisz) declines once more to play Evy, and the all-American R.W. (Reese Witherspoon) taking her place (learning Inca culture, martial arts and guns expert, speaking with an unconvincing English accent and voila!) to see if you like her or you're happy that they have changed the main girl once more. Bon appetit.Also I warn you that if you continue to sin of being open-minded to these pointless changes that I write above, go watch Power Rangers, so you can see how they constantly change the protagonists in this series.

rushmoras A couple of things, which bothered me:1) The Dragon Emperor's CGI. Would have been really impossible for the film-makers to just simply constantly make him look like a decaying mummy, instead of being encased in a bronze statue? Because the former was just bad CGI, and the latter would have been a question for a good make-up artist;2) The ability of the Dragon Emperor to shape-shift. Sorry, but those scenes were just quirky. I understand that the film-makers wanted to show the audience "lo, and behold the might of this villain", but keep the dragons and stuff to the fairy-tale movies. Not Indiana Jones esque movies;2.1) The same could be said about the Yetis in the movie;3) So, during the end, The Dragon Emperor finally understood English? Another one of his supernatural traits or just an overlook from the guys responsible for the scenario?3.1) The same could be said about the Chinese witch in the end. Do the fallen enemy solders understood English (because there was no English at that time) well enough for them to rise from their graves and avenge themselves against the Emperor?Anyway, would have been looking forward for the fourth Mummy set in Peru (Jonathan's words), but, ah, well, you win some, you loose sum. All in all, not a bad movie, but some mistakes take the score away.

Griff5516 Now let's just begin by saying this movie is bad... Yetis kicking field goals at the gate to Shangri-la, Ricochet Rick playing golf with mummy soldier heads, a shape-shifting Chinese Emperor, throwing chunks of your clay face as a weapon... I could go on. The point is, this movie was incredibly off the wall. While I understand that this goofy craziness was probably the plan all along, the reason why I did not enjoy this film as it was meant to be was because it was supposed to be a continuation of the Mummy movie franchise. For that reason, I think there was a certain line of craziness that was made by the previous two movies that needed to be stood behind to keep that element of continuity. Instead, this film takes it to a level that never should have been reached! Yes I laughed out loud at some of the silliness, and at times found myself enjoying certain action scenes / movie moments, but overall I am giving this a 4/10. It deserves some credit, but did I enjoy it? No. Was it a good way to end the O'Connell Mummy trilogy? Definitely not. Sorry guys, this one can rule in hell with the cursed Emperor Qin...

generationofswine Where did Rachel Weisz go? I'm sorry but it doesn't seem like a Mummy movie without her. I mean, they should have known, rarely do franchises or TV series survive when a key character is replaced by a new actor.James Bond and Bewitched are the only two examples I can really think of. Other than than the quality sort of plummets. Audiences don't except it.It would have been better just to write her character out.But then again, it doesn't seem like a Mummy movie without Egypt, or even the Mummy.So here you have a film with one of the main cast members replaced, another removed entirely, and the familiar setting totally removed. Of course people aren't going to like it.And they didn't. It totally killed the series.So now they are rebooting it and too soon. We can only hope they redo it entirely and shoot for a totally different Mummy movie, maybe a return to horror. just to distance from the reboot/remake" feel...but we already know they won't.The action and the humor are still there, but the changes make you feel like it's a cheap copy. It feels like an after-market Mummy film.