You can fault this noisy swashbuckler on any number of counts — unconvincing computer-generated effects, an excess of video-game-inspired fight scenes, some seriously derivative sequences — but give it this: It works its gilded butt off to give you your money's worth. More than two hours of frantic supernatural shenanigans, crammed with standard-issue mummies, chattering midget mummies, scary scarabs, moldering skeletons, supernatural dog soldiers of Anubis, pyramids, fighting girls, a flying galleon and the fearsome Scorpion King, to be precise. The year is 1935: American adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and spunky English Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan (Rac...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
125 mins