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88Cheerful, slightly cheesy entertainment that uses the latest special-effects techniques to breathe life into a venerable film tradition.
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70A well-crafted, great looking adventure, with some spirited performances.
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100Digs up both laughs and chills from timeworn material.
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88Even if The Mummy is imitation Spielberg, it offers more bang for the buck than we're used to getting.
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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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63Packs 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.
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63In the end, it's the self-mocking aura that save this film from being a waste of two hours.
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50Long, bombastic, and violent, but fantasy fans may enjoy its fast-moving energy.
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50A frantic, epic-sized blowout of campy, "Indiana Jones" -style derring-do mixed with lots of computer-generated gee-whizzes.
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50A soulless spectacle.
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50Seems 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.
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60Noisy, spectacular and disposable.
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50Make no mistake -- this Mummy is an effects film all the way.
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67There is much to look at--it's like spending two hours in Michael Jackson's Undead Neverland--but not a lot at stake.
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70This remake is like a live-action cartoon: all brio and no brains.
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70A pretty good job of zipping things along and occasionally scaring us, and the digital effects are fun.
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60A near miss overall, but enjoyable in its littler particulars.
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50Tries for that series' breezy matinee atmosphere but the results turn out far too forced.
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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.
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30Crudely remaking the 1932 Universal original.
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30Universal’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.
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30Stumbles and screeches on for an interminable two hours.
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30Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
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20Hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey movie.
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50Big, lavish and dumb as camel spit -- is proof that sometimes it's better to let sleeping genres lie.
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42Numbingly predictable and repetitive non-stop action.
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70Here in the rotting depths of pulp horror/adventure territory, that's the entire point of the exercise.
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60In the end, solid acting, stellar special-effects, and well-wrought tension make the film a worthy date flick or matinee outing.
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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.
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50Drags its uninspiring action out too long for anyone's good.
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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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kitty10I loved this movie, I have always enjoyed studying ancient Egypt (along with anything else ancient) ao this was my cup of tea.