Plot: What’s it about?
“Bad Boy” Rick O’Connell (Brendan Frasier) is recruited (after being in jail) by Evelyn and Jonathan to lead them to the mysterious city of Hamanatra. They are on a quest, along with a couple of “cowboy” Americans, to find magical yet cursed book. They find it…but make the mistake of reading from it and in doing so “awake” the mummy, Imhotep.
As you can imagine things don’t go too well. You see, Imhotep was sort of buried alive and slowly killed over thousands of years by these flesh-eating bug type things. So, it’s understandable that he’s kind of ticked off. That and having your tongue cut off will do that to you. Throughout the entire movie, he becomes more and more “human” by killing all of the people that were around when he was awakened.
I know that I’m not the only person to draw a not-so-dotted line between this and Indiana Jones, the only difference is that Indiania Jones is good and enjoyable. This really isn’t.
All hell breaks loose and the four living people (our stars are coincidentally included) fight to kill the mummy and save the world from his wrath. Do they make it? Watch it and see…
Video: How does it look?
Quite simply…amazing. What the movie lacks in plot, it makes up for in appearance. Plenty of scenes where the video would falter on a non-16:9 transfer, but looks just splendid throughout.
Audio: How does it sound?
Again, reference quality sound, I had to turn the volume down just so I wouldn’t wake the neighbors. Sub bumps throughout and all other 5 channels grind away from opening to closing credits.
Supplements: What are the extras?
Universal packed this with extras (maybe they realized that the story wasn’t that strong) and they are very interesting. Put it this way, if you don’t know a lot about ancient Egyptian gods, you will after you watch this. A feature-length commentary, documentaries and featurettes round out a very good disc. And the price is $5 less than all of their (Universal) other Collector’s Edition’s. Bottom line, it’s one to own.