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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
You liked The Mummy? I loved The Mummy. You liked The Mummy Returns? I loved The Mummy Returns. What about The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor? Hmmm.....
Maybe there's something to say about film franchises that never end. And maybe there's more to say about stories that start sounding a tad bit repetitive. And all that there is to be said cannot be very good news. Not all of it, of course. Brendan Fraser and John Hannah are the sole remnants of the original ensemble. There's no Rachel Weisz. There's not Oded Fehr *sigh*. There's no Arnold Vosloo (Imhotep). So basically there is very little nostalgia in the real sense.
With Jet Li and Shanghai and the Great Wall and Shangri-La and the terracotta and all that jazz, this movie as Chinese as Hollywood can get! The film begins with a huge sense of adventure and forebooding. There's a lot of action from the start and it follows in the same vein throughout. Alex, the son of Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evy O'Connell (Maria Bello) is playing truant from college and excavating the terracotta army of the First Emperor. And what does he find? The Emperor himself.
The senior O'Connell's, simultaneously, have been entrusted with the task of delivering the Eye of Shangri-La to the Chinese people. They go to Shanghai and meet up with Jonathan (John Hannah) who has opened a club there. This is post-war China we're talking about. Shanghai on Chinese New Year of 1947. They meet him and also unexpectedly find their son there too. In the midst of this family reunion fraught with tension (between father and son), they are pulled into this sinister plot to awaken the Dragon Emperor that Alex has uncovered and allow him to take over China and then the world.
They travel from bustling Shanghai to the Himalayan peaks that house the Golden Tower that will lead them to Shangri-La and eventually to Shangri-La itself where the Emperor proceeds to make himself immortal and regain the power to raise his terracotta army. That is where the battle begins. At the Great Wall.
The graphics of this movie aren't nearly as impressive as the last two and there's much to be desired from this sequel. And to think that they're making a fourth installment. Rachel Weisz quit because she didn't think it was a "respectable enough" project and that is a fact. Though it is really nice to see Michelle Yeoh!
On the whole, it's fine for a one time watch if you're a fan of the Mummy franchise and if you want to stay a true follower of the cult. Then it's fine. Watch it once and put it out of your mind. Too much thought will ruin it for you!
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Houdini wasted an whole night watching it!!! ..they've all been there done that..