The mummy tomb of the dragon emperor

The first reaction which you get once the movie is over is Wow! What a total waste of something which could have been made so good. The new movie has absolutely nothing in it, no scary moments, animations are shoddy, actors have no expressions, the storyline is non existent and the comic part, which used to be integral part of the mummy series, is no where. If you remove Brandon Fraser from the movie, one would think it's a B or C grade Hollywood flick.

Don't know why Brendon Fraser and Jet Li decided to do this movie? Money might be the only reason as I am sure they'd have seen the movie is going no where. Jet Li has just got a bit role to play, as in most of the scenes he's the animated rock bodied mummy. One of the major let downs is the acting by Brandon's on screen son and his new actress wife, yes, the old charming Rachel Weisz has been replaced by someone called Maria Bello (the one in the World Trade Center movie of 2006) as Brendon (O'connell's) wife. This just adds to the woes though, because one does miss the charm of Rachel Weisz. Anyways if she was to be replaced, why did you had to bring her back from the dead in the end of mummy 2 ? O'connell's son is played by Luke Ford who more than to the frill factor, adds to being irritating with his bad acting. What irritates more is that in the first half the movie focuses more on him and not Brendon.

The movie could have been made so good, because the story was there, the actors were there( I mean if they included Rachel Wiesz as well), and the audience expectations were there. Just that it was never allowed to develop properly. Movie moves in two parts, you just get a rush of action for 10 min and then another 20 min, it goes all very slow, then again 10 min of fast action and then 20 min very slow and it goes on and on and on.

At the near end of movie, O'Connell's wife asks Brendon , " Did you regret anything?". Well, my answer is , yes, I regret wasting my money, my friday night's around 2 hrs and above all I regret seeing a movie from the Mummy series, which I used to love immensely, fall so bad.

(Note: for all Delhi and NCR people, do not visit the Imax Theater in Pacific mall ghaziabad for night shows, the ticket rates are around 20 % more, they did not put the air conditioning on for around 20 min, there were huge cuts in the movie length(which they did in almost all night shows I have been there) and in the middle of the movie for around 15 min, the sound became squeaky, audience shouted but no one cared)