Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.
The Mummy has generally received positive reviews.
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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Feb 2007
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By Bob Graham (157) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Mar 2010
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The Mummy was released in 1999 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 731 reviews, giving The Mummy (1999) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 78%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 58%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Mummy than critics were.
With a score of 70%, The Mummy is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1999, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1999 with similar scores include films like Man on the Moon, Angela's Ashes and The End of the Affair.
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