Replacing smouldering tension and friction with playground insults and more yelling.īen Seresin’s cinematography was fantastic to look at. There was zero chemistry between Cruise and Wallis. No matter how nauseating it got in the Mummy Returns (Fans, am I right?)
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Plus it helped that there was actual chemistry between her and Fraser. Don’t know why I thought I’d share that) was irritating but had her charm. A creepy adversary (And no, let’s not mention the horrifically CGI’d Scorpion King).īoutella did her best with the role BUT her lines were dull and she spent too much time in the background.Īnnabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders) was far too serious and annoying for her own good. On paper, swapping the dynamic around (Making the Mummy female) and modernizing it actually had potential BUT it failed to offer anything new.Īrnold Vosloo was a sinister presence. The problem with this reboot was that I couldn’t stop making comparisons to the Fraser flick.
Let’s not forget there was a reason why the franchise got rebooted in the first place. The less we say about Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the better. They played the right level of cheese, humour (John Hannah, come on!) and let’s not forget that tongue in cheek horror. The 1999 Stephen Sommers blockbuster and The Mummy Returns were perfectly balanced. Too stupid to be funny and NOT dark enough to be a real horror. No scarab beetles?! No Omid Djalili screaming like a banshee? (What?) Camel spiders and rats? Really? Meh. Thankfully his swift exit was a pleasant relief. Especially in the frenetic opening Iraq shoot em up sequence. Johnson’s incessant yelling did my head in. I really hoped Cruise and Jake Johnson’s (New Girl) pairing would have worked better. I mean, fair play to the 55 year old for still throwing himself about and jumping across rooftops. Cruise’s cocky Indiana Jones just about got away with it. Flicked back and forth from one ridiculous explosive set piece to another. To be honest, the opening act didn’t mess about. Okay, it wasn’t that bad BUT it wasn’t that great either. He worked hard to bring the character to life and even had to learn a few lines in Ancient Egyptian.An ancient Egyptian princess (Sofia Boutella) is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension. While fans made fun of the somewhat ridiculous CGI results, it’s hard to lay the blame on Johnson. In the final version of the film, Johnson’s head is edited onto the body of the Scorpion King. That guy gutted it out, because he was just a mess.” Sommers remembers, “We just went all day. Johnson, always a professional, powered through. It was probably 110, 112 degrees, and everybody’s in shorts and tank tops, and he would be covered in blankets, just shivering.” He arrives on the set Friday morning and Dwayne had really bad food poisoning and heatstroke.
In fact, he was sick during shooting.Īs Entertainment Weekly reports, Stephen Sommers recalls having a limited time with Johnson: “I had one day with him, because, on Saturday morning, he had to fly from the Sahara desert to Detroit for a big wrestling deal. While Johnson was excited to get the part on The Mummy Returns and it ultimately helped launch his mainstream stardom, the actual work on the film didn’t go so well for the star. The Scorpion King (played by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson) relishes battle in ‘The Mummy Returns.’ | ILM/Universal Studios “I was in a room with a 28-foot dreadlocks-flapping bug-man, so, yes, in that sense we met.” Dwayne Johnson’s scenes were shot in one day “Let’s put it this way,” he told Entertainment Weekly at the time. Later, his likeness was used for a CGI rendering of the Scorpion King as a monster.įraser, who fought the monster, actually never got to meet Johnson on set. He portrayed the Scorpion King in an early flashback scene. And many point to Johnson’s star power as The Rock for the success. While The Mummy Returns was not as well-received as its predecessor, the film still did fairly well. Imhotep returns and will stop at nothing to gain control of the piece and the army that comes with it. The O’Connells aren’t the only ones interested in the powerful bracelet. This work brings his family across the Bracelet of Anubis, an artifact that is a key to the Scorpion King’s army.
Brendan Fraser’s Rick O’Connell - now married to Evelyn and with an 8-year-old son - is still working in archaeological exploration. The Mummy Returns picks up where The Mummy left off. (L-R) Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson at the premiere of ‘The Mummy Returns’ in 2001.
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