Well…to be honest this isn’t what I expected, and to get straight to the point the movie sucked.
The most annoying thing was the poor way the animation scenes were made, you could clearly see that it’s 3d and not even close to real(c’mon I saw better animation scenes in movies from the ’90’s).
To be honest I only watched the movie because I really like Brendan Fraser, he always knows how to act and be ironic all the time. Jet Li didn’t have many performances in the movie, because in 3/4 of the movie his character was made on the computer.
I really liked the way the Yeti looked, you can notice the smoothness of the textures and that the animation/design is from 21st century, not like the other poor animations.
Overall the movie compared to the other 2 episodes from the series blows. The runtime is about 1:45 hours and trust me you already get bored in the first 15 minutes, the yeti scenes wake you up after which you can sleep comfortably till the movie reaches the last 5 minutes. It’s like a soap opera:it’s enough to see the beginning and the end of the movie.
Here’s the outline of the movie:
Alex O’Connellthe son of Rick O’Connell finds the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin and digs him out. Emperor Han was cursed 2000 years ago by a powerful sorcerer A Chinese general awakes Emperor Han using a magical item(i can’t remember its name) and so the quest of getting to the magical place named Shangri where the emperor can get back his powers and raise his huge army.
Shangri is located in the Himalayas where our heroes are helped by the yetis, but still Emperor Han gets to Shangri and regains his power after which he transforms into a 3 headed dragon and flies back to his grave where he raises his army.
The sorcerer sacrifices her and her daughter’s immortality to raise those who were buried by Emperor Han under the Great Wall Of China. While the 2 mummy armies are fighting each other Our heroes kill the emperor,by this way destroying the mummy army of the emperor.
They return to Jonathan’s bar where they celebrate. Jonathan leaves to “a place where there aren’t any mummies”, in Peru to be more precise along with the magical diamond which awakened the Emperor. In the end of the movie a text pops up saying: “A few years later they found mummies in Peru” or something like that.
The end.
My suggestion is that unless your a kid who’s dying to watch the movie don’t buy cinema tickets, because you’ll regret it in the end, just go and watch an other movie.
2 Responses to “The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Movie review”
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Brian
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Posted: Sep 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm Reply to this comment.1How could you not expect the film to suck? They’ve ruined the entire Mummy franchise with every one since the first. The first movie was the only decent one, the second was a little iffy, then The Scorpion King just shoveled it into a hole.
Reading up on it in the months coming to it’s release, my first impression was, Okay…wow now why is it named The Mummy and not The Samurai? All it is is a money grab because the director (Rob Cohen) hasn’t had any work for 3 years and none of the actors have had a blockbuster in a while.Let’s be honest, film buffs look at the director and the writers before the cast to see if the film has any promising attributes. Neither of the writers and the director of this film have had any “good” films attached to their names.
Guess what I’m trying to say is, you should have known it was going to suck before you even heard of it.

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pradeep
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Posted: Sep 23rd, 2008 at 10:25 am Reply to this comment.2Totally agree….
One of the most pathetic movies that I have seen recently…. Cheap imitation of Indiana Jones. The movie had so much resemblance to the first two parts from the overall plot to the chases, fights etc. I was just wondering what the hell are they trying to pull; the only thing that seemed to have happened by the end of it all was that I was 30 Bucks short and wasted 2hrs of my life.
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