{"id":11358,"date":"2008-09-08T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T07:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11358"},"modified":"2009-09-18T23:17:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T21:17:34","slug":"the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/08\/the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Yesterday I went to see “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/a>“.\u00a0 I thought that the previous two movies (“The Mummy<\/a>” and “The Mummy Returns<\/a>“) were entertaining, so I was looking forward to this one.\u00a0 However, there were quite a few reviews that mentioned that this sequel sucked.\u00a0 That got me into doubts whether I should see it at all or not, but finally I decided to go.<\/p>\n

The flick wasn’t bad at all.\u00a0 It was somewhat crowded with characters, and the plot was sort of weak, but the important stuff was still there – mummy, Brendan Fraser<\/a>, and tonnes of special effects.\u00a0 Shooting, fighting, car chases, airplanes, zombie battles, exposions – these were all in excess.<\/p>\n

But the critics were somewhat right.\u00a0 This wasn’t as good the previous mummy movies.\u00a0 First of all, the mummy itself wasn’t strong or scary.\u00a0 In the previous films, the Egyptian mummy was so powerful that it was making warriors out of sand dunes, commanding millions of flash eating beatles, and moving stormy clouds in formations.\u00a0 A hero had to fight that mummy, because it was too devastating before it was even getting into its full powers.\u00a0 In this film though, the mummy was more like a pissed off guy getting his life back.\u00a0 Whoever gets on his way was getting his butt kicked.\u00a0 There was some potential for evil afterwords, but it’s just not the same.\u00a0 Secondly,\u00a0 Rachel Weisz<\/a> wasn’t in this movie, and she couldn’t have been substitute by anyone.\u00a0 Not in a million years.\u00a0 Thirdly, there was something obviously dogdy about the storyline itself.\u00a0 It felt like the good guys has become the bad guys, and the bad guys has become the good guys.\u00a0 And since it wasn’t going very well on its own, some really bad dialogues and mottos were added to the mix.\u00a0 And that didn’t mix that well.<\/p>\n

Overall, I’d give it a 6 out of 10<\/strong>.\u00a0 Not a bad entertainment flick if you are to see it in the movies, but don’t be expecting much out of it, and I doubt that it’s worth a DVD purchase.<\/p>\n

P.S.: There is no way Brandon Fraser could win a fight against Jet Li<\/a>.\u00a0 No way!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday I went to see “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor“.\u00a0 I thought that the previous two movies (“The Mummy” and “The Mummy Returns“) were entertaining, so I was looking forward to this one.\u00a0 However, there were quite a few reviews that mentioned that this sequel sucked.\u00a0 That got me into doubts whether I … Continue reading The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1706,1,24],"tags":[1693,2045,1915,2215],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-brendan-fraser","tag-jet-li","tag-john-hannah","tag-rob-cohen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11524,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/27\/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":11358,"position":0},"title":"Journey to the Center of the Earth","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Watched \"Journey to the Center of the Earth\" on the plane's tiny LCD screen, with really horrible headphones.\u00a0 And wasn't impressed at all.\u00a0 Yeah, maybe I missed a whole lot of special effects, but the movie still sucked.\u00a0 It felt like a really cheap attempt to recreate one of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "3 stars"","block_context":{"text":"3 stars","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/movies\/movie-reviews\/3-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Journey to the center of the earth","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12468,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/20\/back-from-the-party-land\/","url_meta":{"origin":11358,"position":1},"title":"Back from the party land","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm back from the party land.\u00a0 This was, no doubt, the longest and heaviest birthday celebration that I ever had.\u00a0 I've been going from drunk to wasted for a whole week, and got to the stage where my body does not accept alcohol any more.\u00a0 Not even a beer.\u00a0 I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7204,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/08\/07\/lara-croft-tomb-raider\/","url_meta":{"origin":11358,"position":2},"title":"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 7, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Watched \"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. 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