| The blockbuster global Mummy franchise takes a spellbinding
turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the
adventure series, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Brendan
Fraser returns as explorer Rick O'Connell to combat the
resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the
catacombs of ancientChina high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick
is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex (newcomer Luke
Ford), wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) and her brother, Jonathan (John
Hannah). 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. Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress (Michelle Yeoh) to spend eternity in suspended animation, China's ruthless Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have lain forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O'Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. As the monarch roars back to life, our hero finds his quest for world domination has only intensified over the millennia. Striding the Far East with unimaginable supernatural powers, the Emperor Mummy will rouse his legion as an unstoppable, otherworldly force...unless the O'Connells can stop him first. Now, in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the trademark thrills and visually spectacular action of the Mummy series will be redefined for a new generation. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is helmed by director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, xXx) and written by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (Spider-Man 2, television's Smallville). Reprising their roles as producers in the series are Bob Ducsay, Sean Daniel, Stephen Sommers and James Jacks. |
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premise of the movie isn't that far off from the original.
Egyptologist and general mess Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) discovers a
map to the lost city of Hamunaptra, and so she hires rogue Rick
O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) to lead her there. Once there, Evelyn
accidentally unlocks the tomb of Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), a man
who had been buried alive a couple of millennia ago with
flesh-eating bugs as punishment for sleeping with the pharaoh's
girlfriend. The ancient mummy is revived, and he is determined
to bring his old love back to life, which of course means much
mayhem (including the unleashing of the 10 plagues) and human
sacrifice
In
his zeal to establish a lucrative franchise, writer-director
Stephen Sommers dispenses with such trivial matters as character
development and plot logic, and charges headlong into an almost
random buffet of minimum story and maximum mayhem, beginning
with a prologue establishing the ominous fate of the Scorpion
King (played by World Wrestling Federation star the Rock, in a
cameo teaser for his later starring role in--you guessed it--The
Scorpion King). Dormant for 5,000 years, under control of
the Egyptian god Anubis, the Scorpion King will rise again in
1933, which is where we find The Mummy's returning heroes
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, now married and scouring
Egyptian ruins with their 8-year-old son, Alex (Freddie Boath).
John Hannah (as Weisz's brother) and Oded Fehr (as mystical
warrior Ardeth Bay) also return from The Mummy, and
trouble begins when Alex dons the Scorpion King's ancient
bracelet, coveted by the evil mummy Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo),
who's been revived by... oh, but does any of this matter?
Release Date: August 1st, 2008
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Studio: Universal Pictures
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Official Site: themummy.com
Rating: PG-13 for adventure action and violence
Seen at: Regal Riverview 7-31-08
Review:
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Brendan Fraser As Rick O'Connell
Jet Li As Emperor Han
Maria Bello As Evelyn O’Connell
Michelle Yeoh As Zi Juan