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THE MUMMY Send This Review to a Friend
Poor Boris Karloff must be turning over in his bandages. The 1932 "The Mummy" was a simple, naive horror tale, amusing and somewhat scary for its time. It was a silly story of the invasion of a tomb and the coming to life of a mummy with a score to settle.
Written and directed by Stephen Sommers, the new version violates the old as surely as desecraters of a tomb. The story, fragile to begin with, has been pumped up into a gross, noisy special effects orgy, with creepy crawlers emerging from a ghastly cadaver and ugly mayhem all over the place. Rachel Weisz as the woman in peril and Brendan Fraser as the hero do their best to give some humanity--and occasional humor-- to the tale.
Forget it. The film should immediately be swathed in bandages and itself buried in a tomb. It is already embalmed.
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