Review – Tale of the Mummy

I wanted to like this movie. I really did. And I should have; it had a big dose of the creepy archaeological stuff that I like so much in horror movies. It just seemed like ever time it was ready to take off and run with the ball, it got bogged down on some obscure plot point or mummy movie cliché. Not helping matters was the fact that the mummy this time around isn’t a walking corpse as much as he’s a big, frequently amorphous collection of wrappings. Sometimes he’s a computer-animated menace that provides a chill or two, but he spends even more time looking like a big wad of masking tape. Jason Scott Lee puts in an acceptable performance, though often it seems like his heart’s not quite in it. The result: a film that seems to have a lot going for it, but somehow never quite pulls it all together. Mildly amusing