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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (The Mummy 3)

2008

Rob Cohen

Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Luke Ford, Jet Li ...

4.5

27,660

Adventure. Action. Fantasy. Thriller In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo Rick and Alex O'Connell unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard centuries ago.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Reheating the ingredients can't disguise how stale they are, as setpiece after setpiece strains to whip up excitement, only to fall flat while reminding of previous sequences that did such things ever so much better."	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The kindest thing to be said for this frantic, cluttered mess of cheesy computer-generated action-adventure clichés is that at least you can see how the estimated $175 million budget was spent."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for 'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor. And the movie about them is all that it could be (...) The best in the 'Mummy' series (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jane Horwitz The Washington Post	"Oh, no, not again. (...) Tiresome and messy, (...) The prologue was the best part."	NEG
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"This is family entertainment of the least demanding kind, with a paucity of invention and an over-abundance of special effects"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"It's not hard to pick holes in 'Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' (...) In fact, I can think of almost nothing good to say about the film, except that I enjoyed it immensely."	NEU
United States	Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader	"For a movie about the undead, this lacks any supernatural chills (...) Rob Cohen directed, incoherently"	NEG
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"'Dragon Emperor' plods along mechanically through its first hour, hitting all the expected notes with bland efficiency (...) [It] succeeds largely through sheer excess"	NEU

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