Review of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) by Filipeneto — 21 Aug 2018

This is the third and last movie of "The Mummy" trilogy. It had a big budget and kept (at least) one of the actors from the previous films (Brendan Fraser) but it cut with everything that had been done before, with a new cast and a story set in China instead of Egypt.

The plot has moments of solidity in which it promises good entertainment, but everything falls apart due to the poor development of the story and poor work of the director and the generality of the actors.

The best is undoubtedly sets and an excellent cinematography, but this isn't enough to make it good. Jet Li is the best actor here, achieving a very strong performance, but I don't know how much he has benefited with the weak participation of the remaining cast.

Even Fraser was far from what we saw in two previous films! The film is loaded with poor quality CGI, too evident to deserve any credibility. Soundtrack is acceptable but doesn't have brilliance and doesn't stay in the ear.

The film tries to maintain usual humorous comic strips we've seen in the previous two films, but it's such a weak humor that it's not funny, just stupid.