[Stephen] Sommers is a pure pop Stephen Spielberg but this chapter is less 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' than 'Gunga Din,' a pulp update of old Hollywood action movies.

| Apr 14, 2023

The nonstop action sequences are comparable to the original, though the timing and execution here lack the creativity and momentum needed to truly match up.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 7, 2020

Feels like treading of the same old ground. And that's likely because no one here has really evolved.

| Nov 1, 2014

Very violent, mostly in comic-book terms.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

More or less a wholesale recycling of the 1999 original.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 4, 2010

...a computer generated stinker of a dud.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 20, 2009

The whole two-hours-plus affair just soars along, brainlessly and breathlessly.

| Original Score: A | Aug 25, 2008

The film's bloated ambition seems of a piece with its panting, happy-dog charm. [Blu-Ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

The mummy may, but the audience shouldn't.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2004

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 7, 2004

The Mummy Returns isn't concerned with character development or plot; it exists simply to please the audience with massive amounts of eye-candy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2003

With a few extra zeros on the budget this time around, Sommers runs riot.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2003

Feels like so much scrap metal picked up off the factory floor at the place where they made the first one.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 14, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2002