3/15/2024 0 Comments The mummy returns movie set in![]() The ever-amiable and distinctly talented Brendan Fraser manages a convincing world-weariness as he is set upon by ferocious Arab tribesmen and homicidal mummies in the bowels of the British Museum ('Not these guys again!') then pursued through London in a double-decker bus by a quartet of deranged skeletons. They have clearly made piles of money at something, for they live in an immaculate stately home and don't look a day older. Eight years on from the first movie, former jailbird and legionnaire Rick (Brendan Fraser) and librarian Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) have a precocious eight-year-old son called Alex (Freddie Boath). ![]() This is, in everything but name and personnel, Indiana Jones IV. The plot makes a kind of sense, but it's really an excuse for a helter-skelter collection of great action sequences, cobbled together with a Spielbergian zest for hokum by writer-director Stephen Sommers. It is bigger, faster, louder and even sillier than the 1999 original. Thrills and fun, I'd say - and this is one sequel that delivers. But what do you expect from a movie called The Mummy Returns? ![]() Depth! Seriousness! Great acting! Plausible plotting! A responsible approach to ancient history! All this and more is utterly absent from this week's big release. ![]()
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