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75Now why did I like this movie? It was just plain dumb fun, is why. It is absurd and preposterous, and proud of it.
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67Dragon Emperor succeeds largely through sheer excess: It's doubtful that any idea was thrown out for being too implausible.
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58Anyone in the market for an overblown and totally mindless adventure-comedy will certainly get his money's worth.
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50When I go to a Mummy movie, I don't want ninjas and yetis and men turned to stone. I want embalmed corpses and hieroglyphics. I want pharaoh. I want pyramids and sphinxes and Ace bandages. Did "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" take place on the Nile?
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50The movie bogs down in tiresome good guys vs. bad guys action cliches.
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50Still passable popcorn fare, even if you'll barely taste it before swallowing.
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50It's kind of fun but the twists and turns are all too familiar.
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50After an hour of inert exposition, a race through Shanghai gooses the movie alive. Then it plunges back into torpor.
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50This Mummy movie is really two movies: a good adventure epic, with all the Chinese people, and a wan one, with O'Connells and the other the Westerners.
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42It's like an Indiana Jones movie without rhythm, wit or personality, just a desperate, headlong pace.
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42There is one bit of good news. For all you abominable snowman fans out there, "The Mummy" is filled with yetis. And, boy, are they ever angry.
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40Boredom is the very basis of this sequel, at least at the beginning.
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40Competent, but so utterly bereft of any memorable moments that it becomes a bit of a bore. Perhaps it's time for a reboot – guy wrapped in bandages, shuffling around a pyramid, scaring people. You never know, it might just work.
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40Though the new film has some good things, it does not have enough of them to make the third time the charm.
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38The film has one objective: to smack its audience in the face with fleeting, competing wows, over and over.
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38Despite exotic locations, epic cinematography, and much spectacular crash and bang, this "Mummy" feels like a threadbare toss-off.
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38Feels perfunctory and obligatory and, despite the return of several familiar characters, is more like an afterthought than an organic third piece of a trilogy puzzle.
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33Shrill, unfunny third installment.
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30Too much of the proceedings are silly rather than horrifying, with the nadir being the appearance of some particularly athletic Yetis who briefly pitch in to lend a hand.
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30It's a damn shame when the dreaded third leg in the franchise feels like a pale imitation of an already pale imitator.
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Strange how dreary it all is, and how tired Fraser seems.
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30The kindest thing to be said for this frantic, cluttered mess of cheesy computer-generated action-adventure clichés is that at least you can see how the estimated $175 million budget was spent.
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Tiresome and messy.
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30For a movie about the undead, this lacks any supernatural chills, and by the time its obligatory final showdown arrives, it seems as hollow as the terra cotta soldiers brought to life by CGI.
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25The new Mummy is, how can I put it? Just freakin' awful.
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25Tomb is the kind of movie you sit through dreading the expository scenes, because the acting is so bad and the dialogue so pointedly written to make sure the little ones in the audience can keep up with the plot.
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25As for Fraser, his clumsy humanity is endearing, but by now, assuming he has invested wisely, he should have enough money saved so as to not have to waste his talent anymore.
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25Remarkably, the plot has much in common with "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," yet that bundle of fun has enough vision to make even its Barry Manilow interlude seem appropriate.
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25I'm afraid it just stinks.
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20It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell.
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20Reheating the ingredients can't disguise how stale they are, as setpiece after setpiece strains to whip up excitement, only to fall flat while reminding of previous sequences that did such things ever so much better.
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20The best news about this clangorous clunker is that it may well have vanquished the Mummy franchise.
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11Little more than a cluttered, noisy, and unsatisfying thrill ride to nowhere.
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