The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the newest sequel in Universal’s Mummy franchise. It picks up many years after the second Mummy movie with adventurers Rick and Evelyn O’Connell (Brendan Fraser & Maria Bello) relaxing in retirement. Their grown-up son Alex (Luke Ford) is in China excavating the legendary Dragon Emperor’s (Jet Li) tomb. Soon the ancient curse awakens the Evil undead and his army. Now the O’Connells must fight as a family to defeat the massive army with the help of the sorceress Zi Juan (Michelle Yeoh).

This is one of the most outright boring movies I’ve seen all year. It’s pretty bad when an “action” movie just has you squirming in your seat. In the first few minutes of the film we are subjected to boring narrative, like a history lesson that isn’t real. This movie is insulting to the audience, constantly demanding that we blindly ignore simple logic. You can tell what the entire plot of the movie is from the trailer, no surprises. The dialogue is weak and contrived. ‘Show it don’t say it’, is a common rule for good filmmaking, this film constantly breaks that rule with on-the-nose dialog and flat scenes. The jokes constantly die, I only remember laughing at the horrible B movie moments stacked back to back……..

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