The Mummy (1999) Critic Reviews

Digs up both laughs and chills from timeworn material.Read the full review

There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased.Read the full review

There is much to look at--it's like spending two hours in Michael Jackson's Undead Neverland--but not a lot at stake.Read the full review

In the end, it's the self-mocking aura that save this film from being a waste of two hours.Read the full review

Seems to be going through a series of motions so obviously virtual that it makes you wish that the filmmakers had stayed away from the computer keyboards entirely and stuck with the rotting tape look.Read the full review

Tries for that series' breezy matinee atmosphere but the results turn out far too forced.Read the full review

Drags its uninspiring action out too long for anyone's good.Read the full review

This version of The Mummy has no pretenses to be anything other than a gaudy comic video game splashed onto the screen.Read the full review

A soulless spectacle.Read the full review