Wick's Review

Summary - Barely OK 2.0

Oh, wait. This was a movie? Seemed more an FX ride with dialogue. I’m all for silly summer blockbusters, FX heavy and logic lite. But this one is so over-the-top that it’s distancing. Boredom follows quickly. And that’s deadly, no matter how magical the spells it seeks to cast.

The movie and its predecessor deserve credit for one thing: making mummies not scary anymore. Notwithstanding the world-class FX and fierce violence they employ, their mix of satire and jocularity defangs what used to be a terrifying movie monster. That’s gotta count for something.

Acting - Good 3.0

A charismatic cast goes to waste: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Oded Fehr, Dwayne Johnson and young Freddie Boath among them.

Film - Pretty Bad 1.5

Written and directed by Stephen Sommers, king of the over-the-top FX adventure movie, a guy who makes Michael Bay seem discrete.

A great bit o’ trivia from IMDb says it all:

Industrial Light & Magic jokingly created the “Stephen Sommers Scale” to measure the extent of digital effects used in a given movie scene. The four parts of the scale, from lowest to highest, are “What The Shot Needs”, “What The Computers Can Handle”, “Oh My God, The Computers Are About To Crash”, and finally “What Stephen Wants”.

Edge - Risqué 2.1

Take to heart the PG-13 rating. Just because the movie is silly doesn’t mean it is appropriate for little ones.

Reality - Supernatural 3.6

1 Comment

• BrianSez Jul 24, 2011 2:02PM

  Regarding Wick’s Review
  I’m gonna skip that one! :)

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