A FEW EARLY REVIEWS

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THE MUMMY 3: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR


Hundreds of years ago an evil Emperor and his army were cursed by a sorceress and turned into stone.

Rick O'Connell and his wife Evelyn are brought in to take a relic,
The Eye of Shangri-La, to China.

The relic is a stone and has the power resurrect the Evil Emperor Han and reveals the secret way to legendary Shangri-la and allow Han to become immortal.
Han is inadvertently resurrected and must be kept from taking the stone to Shangri-la
Of course the O'connoll's son Alex and Evelyn's brother are along for the ride too.
However, they are betrayed by their friend Prof Roger Wilson,
who forces them to give the stone to Emperor Han.


They all make their way to the Himalayas and with the help of a few abominable snowmen (one of the yeti even does a fist pump after dispatching one of the bad guys.)
Fight off the Mummy emperor Han.

Despite the many action sequences this movie is a bit of a bore.
Evelyn was recast with Maria Bello and she is miscast and does a poor imitiation
of Rachel Weisz.

This review is of the Blu-Ray disc so
the special effects are stunning and the sound is thunderous
especially during the marching stone army sequence and the many explosions.

This really doesn't have the charm or the sense of humor the first Mummy or even
to some extant the second Mummy has.

2 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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BURN AFTER READING

Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand
star in a confusing mess of a story.

A CIA agent gets demoted so he quits to write his memoir,
his wife is having an affair
with a man who meets woman on the internet.

CIA guy loses the cd of his memoir and it's found by a guy and a woman who work at
a local gym.
they decide to blackmail CIA guy because they think the cd is top secret documents.

He doesn't go for it.
Everything that happens next is pretty convoluted.
All of it depends on chance and coincidence and for the most part doesn't work.

Sure there are some funny moments
but most of it just falls flat.

The subplot of the CIA is pretty good and the punch line ending is funny.
Too bad the rest of the movie doesn't match it.

If this wasn't written and directed by
Joel and Ethan Cohen (No Country For Old Men, Fargo)
I wouldn't likely have given it much of a thought at all.

2 out of 5 stars