The Mummy: Tomb Of The Pointless Sequel

Of all the films I have watched in recent times, let's say this year, nearly all of them that i had never seen before had something fresh about them. Franklyn, Outpost, City of Embers (which I must watch remember to watch again and review, that was good. And Franklyn, for that matter) and even Punisher: Warzone all had an air that they were having a go at something innovative. The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor, however, was shamelessly similar to the other two, which were distinctly similar in themselves.

But, as is usual with me, I can't see this as a bad thing. I enjoyed the original film, even had some of the toys if i remember correctly, and this still has the same old school charm i enjoyed back in the day. The introduction of the whole "in China instead" thing was enough of a difference that the obsene similarities were almost ignorable. The film was so shameless in it's similarities (sorry to go on about it) that it just downright said it. The amount of references to having "done it all before" were numerous. I liked it, some people may not.

The film was still good though. Alex is all grown up and the father-son thing he has going on with Brendan Fraser's character (you know, the old main character) is cool, and though there is a love interest it's an immortal freakin kung-fu expert ninja motherfucker who looks good if i do say so myself. Her mum's not bad either.

There are a lot of guns, a lot of explosion, a car chase and all the other staples of these films, just two-fold now Alex has his own gun collection and ideas on how to... well, have car chases and blow shit up. Add some martial arts and just plain Jet Li, add in the pretty cool battle scenes, fucking YETIS and awesome special effects then it makes for a film that if it were the first in the series would have been hugely popular and would've been loved as much, if not more than its predecessors.

As a film, i would give it a 8/10, but because it never shocked me and because of the sense I really had seen it all before, even if it wasn't actually in the other two films, the real score is 6/10. If you liked the other two, watch it. There really is no reason why not, just to watch a fit Chink talk yeti and proceed to have her abominable slaves fuck up a small section of the chinese army it's a film worth saying yes to.