3 out of 10
Despite starting strongly with Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Rob Cohen's Hollywood career is littered with fairly inept dross. The Mummy series is not exactly complex entertainment but it has always at least been entertaining. However, even this simple formula is not impervious to Cohen's ham-fisted handling. Most the ingredients are there (no Rachel Weisz and technically not actually a mummy...) but almost every aspect is executed with no more thought than "Hey, a vomiting Yak would be funny!" Nobody really looks like they want to be there or know what they're meant to be doing, with even Jet Li and John Hannah just going through the motions for their pay cheques. I've nothing against brain-off entertainment (as you'll see in my next review) but not when it seems like the people who made it had their brains switched off as well.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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