After a criminal , 3 cartoons and a romantic-comedy-drama movie, now we will come to an action and adventurous one. The central character of this movie has a very familiar name to all of us: THE MUMMY.
The movie begins with a romantic and tragic scene: both lovers died harshly (I wish I won’t die like that). Then, thousands of years later, a Cairo librarian, her brother - the guy that found the map - and another man that they saved, go to Hamunaptra. They accidentally wake a mummy (the lover at the beginning) up and BOOM! Many people die and the three have to try to kill the mummy.
The plot is simple, but the flow of the story is complicated and fantastic. Let’s talk about the actions and thrilling scenes instead of meaningful lessons as usual, because we’re not talking about a deep and incomprehensible movie.
First, they know when and where to be serious of funny. If the beginning impressed me by revealing the Mummy's epic origin, the funny moments of Evelyn and Jonathan, such as when he pretended to be a corpse, make me feel this is not only a fighting movie.
THE MUMMY is a movie that satisfy the adventurous blood flowing in my body and my action-lover eyes. The fightings, running and chasing are breath-taking. I sticked to my chair all the time. I love when the team was driving the car and beat the inferior mummies at the same time. The intense action scenes just come uninterruptedly. However, it’s a bit (actually not "a bit") violent, so I don’t recommend this for little children. Also, the beetles are disgusting. They especially made me felt creepy when they ate Imhotep.
If you are not a fan of Egyptian history, you will. Throughout the movie are interesting stories and knowledge about Egyptian culture and myths that you never see in the textbook. You will be lost in an epic world of ancient Egypt with pyramids, treasure, mysterious magic, Homdai punishment, Hamunaptra or the legends of death. Every moment I told myself "Please, I wanna touch and feel those sparkles." All those factors have added some tasty spices into the movie-soup. Although this movie was in 1999, they somehow brought a real ancient Egypt to everyone. After THE MUMMY I even wanted to be an Egyptologist and treasure hunter!
There’s nothing to criticize about the effects. Comparing to other 1900s movies, MUMMY is one of the best. For example, the way Imhotep sucks up the guys’ souls to revive himself is awesome. I could even feel the power of his breath and imagine that the tiny cells from the explorers move into the mummy’s mouth. The sandstorm and the rooms in the pyramid look so real. The beetle, as I said, are yucky, but that's still fine. And of course, the effects of the actions is totally moving.
The weirdest thing that I found about THE MUMMY was there was no blood?!?! All the choppings, cuttings and slicings had no blood at all. Anyway, generally, I have nothing to complain about the rest.
These are some simple funny also serious one, that I learn from THE MUMMY
- Do not read any strange book out loud. Evelyn cannot resist her curiosity and finally she wakes a powerful mummy up. This reminds me of “Evil Dead”. They read a book, either (how dumb!) and I’m sure you don’t even want to see how they died
- Do not commit adultery, especially with a royal person. This mistake of Imhotep leads to his girl friend’s and his own deaths. In fact, hundreds of years ago in Vietnam, that kind of people were executed by dissection.
- Do not betray anyone. Although you’re protected and gain benefits at first, you’ll be repaid anyway. Just like Beni. I got upset whenever I saw him on the screen until he was eaten by the bugs (Wow, look how cruel I am!)
- Love is sometimes a dangerous motivation. Imhotep accepts to become a bad guy to revive his lover, Acksunamun. So somewhat, I admire the mummy.
I’ll skip the boring part, which is the urge-you-to-watch part, this time. To conclude, the movie is just so amazing and undeniable!