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Mummy, The

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Based on 17 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Stephen Sommers
Nina Wilcox Putnam (story)
Richard Schayer (story)
John L. Balderston (1932 screenplay)
Directed by: Stephen Sommers
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 7, 1999
DVD: August 14, 2000
Running Time: 124 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for pervasive adventure violence and some partial nudity
Starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Jonathan Hyde
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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
Digs up both laughs and chills from timeworn material.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Even if The Mummy is imitation Spielberg, it offers more bang for the buck than we're used to getting.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Cheerful, slightly cheesy entertainment that uses the latest special-effects techniques to breathe life into a venerable film tradition.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A pretty good job of zipping things along and occasionally scaring us, and the digital effects are fun.
Read Full Review >Newsweek Devin Gordon
This remake is like a live-action cartoon: all brio and no brains.
Read Full Review >Film.com Gemma Files
Here in the rotting depths of pulp horror/adventure territory, that's the entire point of the exercise.
Mr. Showbiz Justine Elias
A well-crafted, great looking adventure, with some spirited performances.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
There is much to look at--it's like spending two hours in Michael Jackson's Undead Neverland--but not a lot at stake.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
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.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
In the end, it's the self-mocking aura that save this film from being a waste of two hours.
Read Full Review >TNT RoughCut Christopher Brandon
It's not nearly as much fun as the action-packed trailer makes it seem.
LA Weekly F. X. Feeney
A near miss overall, but enjoyable in its littler particulars.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ernest Hardy
In the end, solid acting, stellar special-effects, and well-wrought tension make the film a worthy date flick or matinee outing.
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Long, bombastic, and violent, but fantasy fans may enjoy its fast-moving energy.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Make no mistake -- this Mummy is an effects film all the way.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Drags its uninspiring action out too long for anyone's good.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Big, lavish and dumb as camel spit -- is proof that sometimes it's better to let sleeping genres lie.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Tries for that series' breezy matinee atmosphere but the results turn out far too forced.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
This version of The Mummy has no pretenses to be anything other than a gaudy comic video game splashed onto the screen.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
A frantic, epic-sized blowout of campy, "Indiana Jones" -style derring-do mixed with lots of computer-generated gee-whizzes.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Numbingly predictable and repetitive non-stop action.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
There isn't a mummy at the center of The Mummy, exactly, but a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
What we've really got here is a tame screwball adventure dressed up with some desert scenery and some awful computer graphics.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Stumbles and screeches on for an interminable two hours.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Universals 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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Robert Horton
Slouches in as a weightless, instantly forgettable picture.
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
R. L gave it an8:
The Mummy is not an oscar worthy film, but it is a great one at that. The Mummy is a remake of the 1932 original( also produced by Universal studios) the original Mummy stared Boris Karloff as Imhotep, but the difference between the original and the remake is that the story and some of the character's are different but the the mummy remains the same, all be it the visual effects are much better now then they were then but the basic plot of both the movies mostly remain the same. The Mummy stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah as a group of egytologist searching for an ancient city lost beneath the sand a century ago. without warning or regrade for what they have done they released a 3,000 year old mummy for his grave. Now them and a group of ancient warriors have to stop Imhotep from engulfing the world in total darkness for all time. The mummy is a completely engrossing horror thriller with some of the best visual effect ever seen, it's one of those film you'll be watching over and over again. And it will never get old no matter how many times you watch it.
Andrew B gave it an8:
A thoroughly enjoyable film that is nothing more than what it tries to be-Entertainment. Don't go into this film expecting a great story that will cause you to think of life in a different way; watch it for the impossible adventure, witty dialogue, and just dumb fun.
sam F gave it a9:
I can't understand how this got so low from the critics. This movie is alot of fun, i guess people spend time trying to compare it to something? I just enjoyed the movie the sequel is also amazing and i can't wait for the new one.
kitty gave it a10:
I loved this movie, I have always enjoyed studying ancient Egypt (along with anything else ancient) ao this was my cup of tea.
Jared C. gave it a10:
It is so amazing, a bit corny but its a huge funfest of a time, every second is interesting or either appealing. Its the year's best film.
David D gave it a4:
Oh my god, what a bad "indiana Jones wanna be". Actually some of it was ok but i hated the "good guys". I have never wanted the "bad" guys to win more then this movie. With all that power, why didnt the mummy just kick some serious butt at the end? who knows.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Just another cheesy adventure. Nicely done, though.
