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Movie Overview
Cast
• Brendan Fraser
• Jet Li
• Maria Bello
Director
• Rob Cohen
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for adventure action and violence.
Video/DVD Releases
Dec 16, 2008 (DVD)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

REVIEWS
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INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 12% Rotten
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1.5/5
"a slipshod spectacle"  Filmcritic.com  Bill Gibron

D-
"It's a deafening, blinding department store Blu-ray demo reel that's spun wildly out of control...Tomb takes the franchise to a stunning new low."  Sci-Fi Movie Page  Brian Orndorf

2/10
"Amid all the poorly edited, atrociously written tumult, the silly CGI and the tragic misuse of Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh, Rick remains an appealing throwback hero."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

1.5/4
"There is no excuse for an action feature to not hold a single thrilling moment. That's not just bad luck, that's bad filmmaking."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

D+
"It's like Cohen and Co. once heard someone describe an Indiana Jones rip-off and they just copied down whatever they could remember, and then added some yeti."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

2/4
"If this were [Maria] Bello's first film, I guarantee this would have been the last we'd seen of her..."  Cinema Crazed  Felix Vasquez Jr.

D
"A loud, silly bit of non-stop action that again comes off like a poor cousin of the 'Indiana Jones' flicks."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

"A deafening, blinding department store Blu-ray demo reel that's spun wildly out of control!"  Sci-Fi Movie Page  James O'Ehley

3/10
"Click here to read review"  vj.net.ua  Jaroslav Vishtaljuk

C+
"The best part about the third Mummy movie is the Ninja Football Yetis that Brendan Frasier and pals encounter in the mountains of Tibet."  Film School Rejects  Kevin Carr

B-
"Director Rob Cohen breathlessly paces his film with non stop action and the whole thing turns out to be some seriously cheesy B movie fun."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

"[E]ven with bar set low and my unconditional love set high, I cannot freakin' believe how cruelly Tomb rips out my geeky little heart and stomps on it..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

1.5/4
"This is the worst kind of sequel - the kind of that reeks of having been made purely for the paycheck. It's time to seal this Mummy back up into its crypt and keep it there."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

B
"It doesn't take itself too seriously but it takes the action scenes seriously and there are some great ones."  Beliefnet  Nell Minow

1/4
"Makes the first two Mummy films seem like The Godfather I and II."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

2/5
"O tipo de filme concebido com uma calculadora em mãos."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

1/5
"You get the sense that it has been written both by and for ADD-afflicted children who have seen way too many movies and who are determined to simply repeat their favorite parts from them, regardless of whether or not they make any sense."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

1.5/5
"None of the action sequences generate any excitement at all and the in-between stuff is so wilfully nutty that it falls completely flat."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

2/5
"Frantic but dull, even dreary."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

C-
"I know that dragging old franchises out of mothballs is all the rage these days, but quality control still counts for something."  Flipside Movie Emporium  Rob Vaux

1.5/5
"I kept waiting for Silver Surfer, Neo, and Snoopy on his damn doghouse to come flying by and yell "Hey Rick! That's a lot of mummies! Mind if WE drop in?""  FEARnet  Scott Weinberg

"Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is more of the same -- and yet less."  Salon.com  Stephanie Zacharek

"Although the formula remains much the same tanna leave concoction as before, there are a indeed few new wrinkles on the dessicated old corpse, just enough to make this pleasant popcorn movie for viewers seeking action and adventure."  ESplatter  Steve Biodrowski

4/10
"Didn't anyone realize that 39 year-old Brendan Fraser couldn't play the father of 27 year-old Luke Ford? With this noisy, frenetic, futile installment, it's time to wrap the 'Mummy' franchise."  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger

3/10
"Competes only with Prince Caspian for having the most inert action sequences of the summer."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 12% Rotten
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