A full-scale re-imagining of Universal Pictures' seminal 1932 film, The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly set loose a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror, which is embodied in the vengeful reincarnation of an Egyptian priest who had been sentenced to an eternity as one of the living dead.
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Forget the guy wrapped in gauze bandages emerging from a tomb. That's the old "Mummy" with Boris Karloff (1932). This new version combines a monster thriller with a sense of humor and a dollop of romance in an exotic setting, plus lots and lots of special effects. Perhaps having learned from the disasters of "Mary Reilly" and "Frankenstein," writer/director Stephen Sommers ("Deep Rising") has turned a low-budget horror movie into a big-budget adventure, set in Cairo in 1925. The Mummy's story begins when the priest Imhotep murders the Pharaoh for his gorgeous mistress. When she then dies, he attempts to summon the deepest, darkest evil entities to bring her back to life. Caught in this treacherous act, he's mummified alive with his tongue cut out so he cannot scream. 3,000 years pass before he's resurrected and regenerated by a French Foreign Legionnaire (Brendan Fraser), a librarian/Egyptologist (Rachel Weisz), and her greedy, ne'er-do-well brother (John Hannah), who arrive to plunder The City of the Dead. The wrathful Mummy (Arnold Vosloo) retaliates by releasing the seven Biblical plagues on humanity. He's the Terminator Mummy in this hokey story which has the tone and feel of the '90s. While Brendan Fraser ("George of the Jungle," "Encino Man") capitalizes on his charming, self-deprecating goofiness - muttering, "We are in serious trouble" - he's no Indiana Jones. In fact, the real "star" is the CGI wizard. It's terrifying to see a scarab burrowing under someone's skin and moving up the arm; it's amazing to watch people turning into boil-covered zombies; and it's awesome to witness the "wall of sand" in the desert. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Mummy" is a scary, spooky 6. With a PG-13 rating, it's the first of the big summer popcorn pictures.
