Brendan Fraser is at it again with The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. This was a terrible and predictable film...and seriously, how far are we going to stretch the definition of “mummy”?
Rick O'Connell and his wife Evey are called out of retirement to transfer an artifact to China. They run into their son who has aged at least 10 years, while they don't look a day older. Oh, and Evey not only didn't age, she looks completely different because she's being played by Maria Bello instead of Rachel Weisz. They wake up a long dead Emperor and...oh, why didn't they just stay retired. For good. Please stop making these movies.
I really thought the first Mummy movie was witty and fun. This third installment lacked any heart because the characters where flat and the dialogue was weak and utterly unfunny. And although some absurdity is expected, this movie pushes it to ridiculous. The entire cast of characters survives an avalanche because they were protected by several abominable snowmen. Yep. What a waste of some great actors. The director didn't even know how to make a great fight scene between Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh. That's like turning gold into dirt...congratulations.
Despite the efforts of O'Connell's team and two beautiful immortal ninjas, the dead Emperor still manages to dip himself into the pool that makes him live forever (and apparently turn himself into various monsters). He becomes a three headed dragon and awakens his dead army. So the good guys awaken another dead army to fight the bad dead army. None of which are mummies by the way, just the walking dead. Fortunately there was a catch to the Emperor's immortality and O'Connell and his son stick a broken magical dagger through his heart. One stabs him from the front and the other from the back and the dagger welds together through his heart. I can't make this stuff up people.
My favorite part though is when Fraser's character yells at Jet Li about honor and asks him to fight him like a man. You see, Jet Li has the power to melt or freeze O'Connell. He can also turn himself into a fire breathing dragon or a scary lion. But when asked to fight man to man, he accepts. So keep that in mind if you ever fight an all powerful, evil sorcerer. Just ask him nicely to be honorable and fight you without his powers. They so should have tried that in Lord of the Rings.
