| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Digs up both laughs and chills from timeworn material.
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| 88 |
New York Daily News
Even if The Mummy is imitation Spielberg, it offers more bang for the buck than we're used to getting.
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| 88 |
New York Post
Cheerful, slightly cheesy entertainment that uses the latest special-effects techniques to breathe life into a venerable film tradition.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
A pretty good job of zipping things along and occasionally scaring us, and the digital effects are fun.
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| 70 |
Newsweek
Devin Gordon
This remake is like a live-action cartoon: all brio and no brains.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Here in the rotting depths of pulp horror/adventure territory, that's the entire point of the exercise.
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| 70 |
Mr. Showbiz
Justine Elias
A well-crafted, great looking adventure, with some spirited performances.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
There 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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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
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.
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| 63 |
ReelViews
In the end, it's the self-mocking aura that save this film from being a waste of two hours.
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| 60 |
TNT RoughCut
It's not nearly as much fun as the action-packed trailer makes it seem.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
A near miss overall, but enjoyable in its littler particulars.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Noisy, spectacular and disposable.
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| 60 |
Film.com
In 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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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Long, bombastic, and violent, but fantasy fans may enjoy its fast-moving energy.
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| 50 |
Dallas Observer
Hal Hinson
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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| 50 |
USA Today
A soulless spectacle.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Make no mistake -- this Mummy is an effects film all the way.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
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.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Drags its uninspiring action out too long for anyone's good.
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| 50 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Big, lavish and dumb as camel spit -- is proof that sometimes it's better to let sleeping genres lie.
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| 50 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tries for that series' breezy matinee atmosphere but the results turn out far too forced.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
This version of The Mummy has no pretenses to be anything other than a gaudy comic video game splashed onto the screen.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
A frantic, epic-sized blowout of campy, "Indiana Jones" -style derring-do mixed with lots of computer-generated gee-whizzes.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Numbingly predictable and repetitive non-stop action.
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| 40 |
Slate
There isn't a mummy at the center of The Mummy, exactly, but a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
What 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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| 30 |
Washington Post
Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Stumbles and screeches on for an interminable two hours.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Crudely remaking the 1932 Universal original.
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| 30 |
Variety
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.
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| 20 |
Time
Hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey movie.
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| 20 |
Film.com
Slouches in as a weightless, instantly forgettable picture.
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