Brendan Fraser have to fight with mummy again in this unnecessary sequel, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor".
Maybe someone out there think that I'm really outdated about movies. Today I just watch the third installment of mummy series, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" with my friends. It consider too late for me to watch it but I still need to review this movie. This film is directed by Rob Cohen, an action movie director who brought you "The Fast and the Furious" in 2001. The film begins with Emperor Han (Jet Li) has conquer his enemy and all of his enemy are buried under the Great Wall of China. In the other hand, he also mastered the five elements which is Metal, wood, water, fire and earth but he cannot conquer death. So he get help from Zi Yuan who knew where is the secret of immortality. Then he ordered his second in command, General Ming to help her for the research. During research, both of them fall in love with each others. One day, Emperor Han gave Zi Yuan a choice whether she will become his wife or watch her lover die in his hand. She rejected Han, and General Ming is pulled apart by the horses. Then Han stabbed Zi Yuan, and Zi Yuan reveals that she already cursed him and his army. After that, she escaped as Emperor Han and his army became the statues. Then the film jumps to 13 years after the events of "The Mummy Returns". Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his wife Evelyn (Maria Bello), both of them has a son named Alex (Luke Ford). His son is an adventurer just like his father. One day, Alex has found the Dragon Emperor's Tomb and he successfully bring the tomb back to Shanghai. In the other hand, Rick and his wife have a very important mission which is to take the Eye of Shangri-La back to the China. When they reach China, they accompanied by Jonathan (John Hannah). But, both of their vacation has been ruined by a men who betrayed them since his son has found the Tomb (I wont be a spoiler). After that, Emperor Han has been resurrect by using the water from Shangri-La and he is on the way to the Shangri-La. So, Rick, Evelyn, Jonathan, Alex and one mysterious girl, altogether must find a way to stop Emperor Han from resurrect his army before is too late. First of all, I think I have not much to talk about this movie because this movie is totally sucks. When I finish watching this movie, my friend and I wasn't talk about this movie. This movie is an action movie, so the most important thing to keep this kind of movie works is to have a good plot progression. The plot progression of this movie is so bad until the whole movie just feels like nothing happen in the beginning and then something happens, and then nothing happen, and then something happens again. This movie is 1 hour and 50 minutes long, plus having a bad screenplay and plot progression, this movie feels very boring and not moving at all. When I first time heard that Mummy 3 is coming out, I found out that it is directed by Rob Cohen and my expectation is become lower and lower. The reason is this director cannot do well in controlling the climax of the movie. The thing happens so suddenly and it end too fast, and the audiences have no time to absorb the feeling. "Stealth"(His previous work) is a great example. Besides that, after I came out from the cinema, there will be a lot of questions which came out from my mind. For example, during the final fighting scene between Zi Yuan and Emperor Han, why don't Han become a beast so that he can win the fight so easily? and from the first part of the film, Zi Yuan speak Mandarin but why until second part of the film Zi Yuan speak english? Where does she learn it? and why she can summon General Ming by speaking english? During the fight scene between Zi Yuan and Han, there will be a lot of slow motion which is make the fighting scenes looks very boring and not cool at all. The only thing that I really admire is the role playing by Jet Li, because he has the look of Emperor Han and very inspiring. The acting is not so bad, and the chemistry between Rick and Alex is not good enough. This movie is very unnecessary and it is a dissapointing sequel. Overall, I prefer watching "Journey to the Center of the Earth" also starring Brendan Fraser instead of this one. This movie is consider the weakest of the series and it is the worst summer movie this year. Thumbs down!!
