Review – The Tomb (2004)

This starts as a cheap Aztec rip-off of The Mummy and goes downhill from there. Normally I’d suggest that this kind of production appeared to be soft-core video porn with the porn cut out, but there may be something else going on. This was shot in Mexico and the Philippines by a crew with mostly-Italian surnames using actors who were pretty clearly speaking Spanish before a Speed-Racer-esque overdub got to them. So perhaps the clunkiness is cultural rather than merely a question of editing. Whatever the cause, however, this is terrible stuff. For example, brief bits of the special effects were “borrowed” without credit from the Indiana Jones movies. Even the disc itself was terrible; it had no menus to speak of, and it showed up on my computer as “logical volume identifier.” As the people who made this clearly didn’t waste much time on it, I see no reason for anyone else to. Wish I’d skipped it