Rotten
The Mummy fails to reconcile image and tone!
Susan Stark, Detroit News
The Mummy
The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed.
1999 · 2h 4m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
Stephen Sommers
Overview
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.
Director and cast
- Stephen Sommers Director
- Brendan Fraser as Richard O'Connell
- Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan
- John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan
- Arnold Vosloo as High Priest Imhotep
- Patricia Velásquez as Anck-Su-Namun
- Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay
- Kevin J. O'Connor as Beni Gabor
- Jonathan Hyde as Dr. Allen Chamberlain
- Erick Avari Cast
- Bernard Fox Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A hyperactive hodgepodge of monumental proportions!
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
An aggressively eye-popping horror film!
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Action-packed, fun.
John Anderson, Newsday
Rotten
A failure in more ways than a mortal would have time to explain!
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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