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06 Sep, 2012
A fun enough film but not one I'll be going back to.
A good enough film, Thor lacks the experience provided by films such as the Dark Knight trilogy or some of the other Marvel hero films. A good cast helps to make for an interesting watch, and Tom Hiddleston does a brilliant job as the devious Loki, but despite all this a simple story and lack of any real development made it hard for me to engage. A good film to watch before the Avengers or to have on in the background while cooking etc, but I doubt I'll ever sit down to watch it all the way through again.
07 Apr, 2007
Excellent sequel
Many sequels never quite seem to match up to the original film, or fall short somehow. However, The Mummy Returns definitely lives up to the legacy of The Mummy, providing the same wonderful blend of shocks, laughs and adventure that we all enjoyed so much in the first film. Imhotep makes an appearance again (couldn't leave him out, that would be criminal!), as do pretty much all the characters from the first film - Rick, Eve, Jonathan, etc. - with just as many memorable moments and quotes.
In The Mummy Returns, Rick and Eve are now married, with a son, Alex. However, just as everything seems to be peaceful, the body of Imhotep is shipped to the British museum, and he is resurrected by a cult of followers, who intend for him to defeat the Scorpion King, who has reawoken, and take command of his armies to destroy the world. As Alex is kidnapped by Imhotep and his followers, Rock, Eve and Jonathan battle their way all the way to Egypt again in their quest to not only save the world, but also their son....
I adored this film from the first time I watched it, and it certainly lived up to my expectations based on the first film. I would highly recommend this! 5/5
04 Sep, 2007
Good movie, but did the writers read Asimov at all??
1 of 1 found this helpful I'd like to start with this Isaac Asimov quote:
'Eye-sci-fi has an audience that is fundamentally different from that of science fiction. In order for eye-sci-fi to be profitable it must be seen by tens of millions of people; in order for science fiction to be profitable it need be read by only tens of thousands of people. This means that some ninety percent (perhaps as much as ninety-nine percent) of the people who go to see eye-sci-fi are likely never to have read science fiction. The purveyors of eye-sci-fi cannot assume that their audience knows anything about science, has any experience with the scientific imagination, or even has any interest in science fiction.
But, in that case, why should the purveyors of eye-sci-fi expect anyone to see the pictures? Because they intend to supply something that has no essential connection with science fiction, but that tens of millions of people are willing to pay money to see. What is that? Why, scenes of destruction. You can have spaceships destroying spaceships, monsters destroying cities, comets destroying the Earth. These are called 'special effects' and it is what people go for. A piece of eye-sci-fi without destruction is, I think, almost unheard of. If such a thing were made, no one would go to see it; or, if it were so good that it would indeed pull a small audience, it would not be thought of as science fiction of any kind.' (Isaac Asimov on Science Fiction, 'The Boom of Science Fiction', pp.125--128)
Asimov is probably turning in his grave. The movie epitomises everything he hated about sci-fi movies - the overriding need for violence and action scenes,'monsters destroying cities', special effects in the extreme, and various forms of collateral damage. With the exception of the Three Laws, the movie seems to bear no relation to the book, or indeed any other of the Robot books - for example, humans happily in direct sunlight!? What happened to the events in the ground car in 'The Naked Sun'? This is but one example of how Asimov's brilliant Laws, concepts and studies of the previous in his books are flouted at every turn in the movie, causing me to, as a great Asimov fan, alternately laugh and cringe. The graphics are impressive, and the acting often good, but it seriously riled me, how little the writers and director evidently knew of the books.
Overall, it's not a bad movie - I kind of enjoyed it when I finally managed to distance it from the books. But, it's only good as a general, run-of-the-mill sci-fi movie. If you are looking for even a slight similarity or homage to Asimov's masterpieces, look elsewhere. I sadly doubt the writers even read the Robot books before making this.