An intriguing opening leads to 85 minutes of nothing, the shell of a plot concerning the efforts of British visitors to an Egyptian tomb bent on bringing a mummy back to life through the body of a young girl, the perfect vessel for a long dead Egyptian princess. All they need is young blood. It's too bad however that the story is focused on mainly through some truly boring conversation that reveals a lot but shows nothing.
I can't believe that the writers, director and producer saw potential in a script as dead as the air in an ancient pyramid, with the structure of the film insinuating more than it ever reveals. This is nap inducing from after the prologue going forward, coming to life only here and there, and acted out with a decent cast of unknowns well aware that this won't be discovered because of this. It's only in the last ten minutes that anything exciting happens, with secrets over the life of the princess they've stolen resulting in a brief bit of shocking horror. Truly forgettable and easy to just skip over rather than suffer through it.
I can't believe that the writers, director and producer saw potential in a script as dead as the air in an ancient pyramid, with the structure of the film insinuating more than it ever reveals. This is nap inducing from after the prologue going forward, coming to life only here and there, and acted out with a decent cast of unknowns well aware that this won't be discovered because of this. It's only in the last ten minutes that anything exciting happens, with secrets over the life of the princess they've stolen resulting in a brief bit of shocking horror. Truly forgettable and easy to just skip over rather than suffer through it.