If you are one of those Digital SFX nerds then, well, never mind. The Digital SFX were great in 1999 and today look like crap. But, who cares? Good films are about story, character, acting and perhaps the visuals. And the visuals are actually pretty great, if a bit cheesy. Is it even important to re-cap the very, very simple plot? It is the plot of every Mummy movie: Europeans/Americans dig up a previously long-buried sarcophagus, and really, really bad stuff ensues.
The main event here is the breezy, well-written script and the solid casting. On the one hand you have the swarthy Brendan Fraser at the height of his career (where is he now, BTW?) and on the other the Oscar-winning Rachel Weisz in a role she might have come to regret she ever took, early in her career. Its hard to imagine the same actress who played Ralph Fiennes's dead wife in "The Constant Gardener" making cow eyes at Fraser, but, well, there you have it.
This film is just plain fun, unless you don't like resurrected Mummies turning to sand and blowing out of hotel room windows when cute little cats are held up to them. And who doesn't?
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