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Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The
Universal Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for adventure action and violence
Starring
Brendan Fraser,
Jet Li,
Maria Bello,
John Hannah,
Michelle Yeoh,
Anthony Wong,
Luke Ford,
and
Isabella Leong
Explorer Rick O'Connell is back to combat the resurrected Han Emperor in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex, wife Evelyn and her brother, Jonathan. And this time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service. (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Adventure
|
Fantasy
|
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Alfred Gough
Miles Millar
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Rob Cohen
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: August 1, 2008
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
114 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany | Canada | USA |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
English | Mandarin |

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...
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Now why did I like this movie? It was just plain dumb fun, is why. It is absurd and preposterous, and proud of it.

67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Dragon Emperor succeeds largely through sheer excess: It's doubtful that any idea was thrown out for being too implausible.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Anyone in the market for an overblown and totally mindless adventure-comedy will certainly get his money's worth.

50
Time
Richard Corliss
This 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.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Still passable popcorn fare, even if you'll barely taste it before swallowing.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
It's kind of fun but the twists and turns are all too familiar.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
After an hour of inert exposition, a race through Shanghai gooses the movie alive. Then it plunges back into torpor.

50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
When 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?

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The movie bogs down in tiresome good guys vs. bad guys action cliches.

42
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
It's like an Indiana Jones movie without rhythm, wit or personality, just a desperate, headlong pace.

42
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
There 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.

40
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Boredom is the very basis of this sequel, at least at the beginning.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Though the new film has some good things, it does not have enough of them to make the third time the charm.

40
Empire
Staff (Not credited)
Competent, 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.

38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Despite exotic locations, epic cinematography, and much spectacular crash and bang, this "Mummy" feels like a threadbare toss-off.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Feels 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.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The film has one objective: to smack its audience in the face with fleeting, competing wows, over and over.

33
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
Shrill, unfunny third installment.

30
Village Voice
Vadim Rizov
Strange how dreary it all is, and how tired Fraser seems.

30
Film Threat
Felix Vasques Jr.
It's a damn shame when the dreaded third leg in the franchise feels like a pale imitation of an already pale imitator.

30
Washington Post
Jane Horwitz
Tiresome and messy.

30
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Too 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.

30
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The 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.

30
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
For 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.

25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The new Mummy is, how can I put it? Just freakin' awful.

25
USA Today
Mike Clark
Remarkably, 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.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
As 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.

25
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
I'm afraid it just stinks.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Tomb 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.

20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Reheating 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.

20
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The best news about this clangorous clunker is that it may well have vanquished the Mummy franchise.

20
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It'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.

11
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Little more than a cluttered, noisy, and unsatisfying thrill ride to nowhere.


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