- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Release Date: May 7, 1999
- Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz
- Summary: A full-scale re-imagining of Universal Pictures' seminal 1932 film, The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. (Universal Pictures)
- Director: Stephen Sommers
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 34
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Mixed: 16 out of 34
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Negative: 7 out of 34
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100Digs up both laughs and chills from timeworn material.
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75There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased.
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60Noisy, spectacular and disposable.
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30What we've really got here is a tame screwball adventure dressed up with some desert scenery and some awful computer graphics.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 30
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Mixed: 2 out of 30
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Negative: 2 out of 30
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kitty10I loved this movie, I have always enjoyed studying ancient Egypt (along with anything else ancient) ao this was my cup of tea.
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"The Mummy" is a movie trying hard to be like the Indiana Jones franchise but turns out to be better than the average summer blockbuster.
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DavidD4
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