Hey, anyone remember that third Mummy movie that recast Evie? No? Okay, fine. I’ll make this semi-short then. I do have to say that I this movie a lot of fun despite it’s flaws. No one knows how too make a good adventure film these days.
It’s been a decade since a terrible CGI Dwayne Johnson attacked Rick (Brendan Fraser), Evelyn (Rachel Weisz), Jonathan (John Hannah), and little Alex (Freddie Boath - wonder what he’s doing with his adult life?). Now Rick spends his time fishing, Jonathan owns a casino that screams opening sequence of Temple of Doom, and Alex (Luke Ford) is on a dig halfway around the world sans his British accent. Meanwhile, Evie (Maria Bello) is -
Wait, wait, wait. Let’s address the elephant in the room. I really love Maria Bello as an actor and normally I’m excited to see her in a movie. I also am glad that they recast the character when Rachel Weisz wasn’t going to do it instead of writing the character out. But Bello was such a weird decision. She played the character in a completely different way and it pulled it me out of the story. Okay, I’ve said my peace. Back to the blog.
Meanwhile, Evie (Maria Bello) is using her downtime to write pulp novels based on their adventures. She’s doing a reading in a London bookstore where main characters Dash and Scarlet are reliving the end of the previous film. This scene did annoy me because she does voices for her characters that make them silly, like she’s making fun of her own life. Still, love the covers featured in the background. Her books are extremely popular with adult women who love the adventure and romance. They ask her questions about how exciting her life was before and during World War II, making her depressed. However, of course, Evie promised her publisher a third book and she’s completely blocked. Her and Rick’s new life of retirement is not helping as the pair of them struggle to pretend that they are happy.
They are sent to Shanghai on a goodwill mission for the British government where they discover that Alex left school to find the tomb of a lost Qin Dynasty emperor (loosely based on Qin Shi Huang and played by Jet Li). They receive help from Rick’s old friend Mad Dog Maguire (Liam Cunningham) and guardian Lin (Isabella Leong) who knows the only way the new Mummy can be defeated. Enter in adorable, yet fierce yetis (I want to be best friends with one), another army of the undead, and Michelle Yeoh as the woman who has lived an eternity in order to stop the emperor. That’s right. Michelle Yeoh. This movie should be highly rated just for her presence. Then again, I did see Crouching Tiger in theaters multiple times and she was my favorite Bond girl so not really sure I’m unbiased.
Anyway, this new adventure gives Evie her plot for the third book the publishers asked for, but yet another adventure gets in the way
Also, can I have a Yeti?
