The Mummy: Critic Reviews

An aggressively eye-popping horror film!

A gaudy comic video game splashed onto the screen!

A failure in more ways than a mortal would have time to explain!

An adventure-flick wannabe!

There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it.

A hyperactive hodgepodge of monumental proportions!

The Mummy fails to reconcile image and tone!

Spectacle, rowdy adventure and supernatural horror all crammed into a raucous two hours of high-testosterone special-effects filmmaking!

Tries to have it both ways, sending up the adventure genre for laughs while also going for some mild shocks, but the sand slips through its fingers on both counts.

It's cheerful, slightly cheesy entertainment!

A weightless, instantly forgettable picture!

It revels in its own retro-ness, and it's a hell of a lot of fun.

Director Stephen Sommers has a kind of soulless, leaden touch, with none of the sleek, sprightly fun this kind of movie requires.

An unpretentious pulp adventure...

it's easy to fall back on self-conscious humor. But if, as the author, you have to keep interrupting your story to remind the audience how dumb the material is, what's the point of telling the tale in the first place?

A great Indiana Jones movie without Indiana Jones.

O roteiro de Stephen Sommers tem o bom-senso de nao se levar a serio.

The eyes feast while the brain starves.

...like that big, dumb, lovable dog you had as a kid, you can't help liking it.

The Mummy is further proof that the digital world is not yet a rich, tactile one.

There are a few jump-in-your-seat moments of pure fright, but this "Mummy" has more in common with Indiana Jones than Boris Karloff.

One would be wise to heed one of its trailer's tag words: 'Beware.'

A cinematic plague!

It's hard to feel invested when most of the characters are so secondary that you don't even know their names.