How did they mess this up? The other two Mummy movies were great fun. (I'm not counting Scorpion King since that's not really in the trilogy, and I didn't see it.) There were even more mummies than before, there was Jet Li, and Michelle Yeoh. What are they missing here? The dialog was always super-cheesy, but this time they went overboard and made it just intolerably bad. The action scenes were unexciting. I realize it's hard to top the coolness factor of the windy sands turning into the face of a mummy, who tries to eat your plane, but you can try still!
Normally, what you see in the trailers is usually the better scenes of the movie, but in this case, they were the only good scenes in the movies, and even then they weren't that great. The one saving grace that it had was when the Chinese soldiers were speaking in Chinese, Dianna would translate what they were saying, and it was funny; but unless you have a Chinese translator with you, it's not that funny!
Why this movie blew:
Stephen Sommers wrote and directed the first two, but this one was directed by Rob Cohen. From his IMDb profile, it looks like Cohen's directoral skills peaked with Dragonheart, and went down, plummeting at The Skulls, xXx, and Stealth. It was written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who write Smallville. I enjoy Smallville, but the writing is pretty awful.
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