Metascore
48 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 34 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 34
  2. Negative: 7 out of 34
  1. Digs up both laughs and chills from timeworn material.
  2. Even if The Mummy is imitation Spielberg, it offers more bang for the buck than we're used to getting.
  3. Cheerful, slightly cheesy entertainment that uses the latest special-effects techniques to breathe life into a venerable film tradition.
  4. 75
    There 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.
  5. Reviewed by: Justine Elias
    70
    A well-crafted, great looking adventure, with some spirited performances.
  6. Reviewed by: Gemma Files
    70
    Here in the rotting depths of pulp horror/adventure territory, that's the entire point of the exercise.
  7. Reviewed by: Devin Gordon
    70
    This remake is like a live-action cartoon: all brio and no brains.
  8. A pretty good job of zipping things along and occasionally scaring us, and the digital effects are fun.
  9. There is much to look at--it's like spending two hours in Michael Jackson's Undead Neverland--but not a lot at stake.
  10. Packs so much hell-for-leather action, gorgeous Moroccan scenery and eye-popping Industrial Light and Magic visual effects into its two hours that, after a while, I began to get tired of it.
  11. 63
    In the end, it's the self-mocking aura that save this film from being a waste of two hours.
  12. 60
    Noisy, spectacular and disposable.
  13. 60
    A near miss overall, but enjoyable in its littler particulars.
  14. Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    60
    In the end, solid acting, stellar special-effects, and well-wrought tension make the film a worthy date flick or matinee outing.
  15. It's not nearly as much fun as the action-packed trailer makes it seem.
  16. Long, bombastic, and violent, but fantasy fans may enjoy its fast-moving energy.
  17. A frantic, epic-sized blowout of campy, "Indiana Jones" -style derring-do mixed with lots of computer-generated gee-whizzes.
  18. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    50
    Seems to be going through a series of motions so obviously virtual that it makes you wish that the filmmakers had stayed away from the computer keyboards entirely and stuck with the rotting tape look.
  19. Big, lavish and dumb as camel spit -- is proof that sometimes it's better to let sleeping genres lie.
  20. 50
    Make no mistake -- this Mummy is an effects film all the way.
  21. 50
    Tries for that series' breezy matinee atmosphere but the results turn out far too forced.
  22. Reviewed by: Hal Hinson
    50
    Even with so much in its favor, The Mummy seems to fall all too easily. If only generating a soul for the film itself were so easy.
  23. Drags its uninspiring action out too long for anyone's good.
  24. This version of The Mummy has no pretenses to be anything other than a gaudy comic video game splashed onto the screen.
  25. Numbingly predictable and repetitive non-stop action.
  26. Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    40
    There isn't a mummy at the center of The Mummy, exactly, but a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect.
  27. 30
    What we've really got here is a tame screwball adventure dressed up with some desert scenery and some awful computer graphics.
  28. 30
    Crudely remaking the 1932 Universal original.
  29. Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    Universal’s attempt to find gold by bringing to new life one of the mustier items in its vaults is pure hokum and scarcely of the first order.
  30. Stumbles and screeches on for an interminable two hours.
  31. Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
  32. Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    20
    Slouches in as a weightless, instantly forgettable picture.
  33. Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    20
    Hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey movie.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 53 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 25
  2. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. "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.
  2. kitty
    10
    I loved this movie, I have always enjoyed studying ancient Egypt (along with anything else ancient) ao this was my cup of tea.
  3. Nice.