The Mummy (1999) (Ultimate Edition)

The Mummy (1999)

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 18, 2006 | 2 out of 2 found this The Mummy (1999) review helpful

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his was a big waste of a free movie pass. It was either see this or see The Phantom Menace again. I chose poorly.You already know the plot because you just read the title. No need to sum that up. Brendan Fraser plays Indi- I mean the lead role, along... with a bunch of unknowns. I think I may have been excited at one point. I can't remember. Oh yeah, one part I liked was when these bugs crawled under this guy's skin. It actually made me squirm (which is good, because a scary movie should do that occasionally). The special effects were worthless. You have to feel sorry for the filmmakers though. ILM did the effects, and while I was watching the movie I kept picturing this huge warehouse filled with cubicles and everyone there is working on The Phantom Menace except for the New Guy. They stuck New Guy on The Mummy. The effects are ho-hum most of the time, and painfully bad in one scene when the mummy has nearly reconstructed his old body (by assimilating the bodies of the people who freed him. Of course, it takes several bodies to do this. I guess the mummy was really fat) At this point, the Mummy is played by an actor, but there are digital effects added onto his face that are supposed to look like the old, decayed Mummy. But the effects don't stay in the same position on his face. They move around right on camera. It made me sick (because they were so bad, not because of the "decaying flesh"). The other effects weren't much better. Just like the baby Godzillas were nothing more than reworked Raptors; all the sandstorms are nothing more than reworked effects from Twister. Read more Less