According to the director of the Mummy movies, Rachel Weisz refused to play a woman who had a 21 year old son. Unless she actually said a different thing on the matter, that sounds a bit ageist and sexist. Maybe misogynistic too, Idk.
Doing a time jump from an 8 year old Alex to a 21 year old and Brendan Frasier wasn't aged, neither was the woman they replaces Rachel with. It was very unbelievable that they were Alex's parents, in fact they looked exactly the same age. Unless they were trying some OUAT shit, that was not going to work.
And no one else believed it so the acting was bloody awful as well. Third movie didn't need to happen.
Just gonna keep going you can skip if you want
Brendan Frasier had absolutely no chemistry with Maria Bello, really the only thing that was the same about the third compared to the first and second was Jonathon being a clumsy failure with money.
The movie made it sound like Rick and Evelyn turned into spies for England during the war? I get Rick making Evie settle down a little because she literally died for ten minutes and it crushed him not to mention Alex losing his mother. And okay the spy thing sounds a little like something Rick would like. Evie reads everything in the world and relays the information to him while he's kicking nazi ass. Evie making Rick settle down though?
Them being crazy rich because of the chihuahua size diamond in the Scorpion King's temple makes sense. Time period, costumes, cars, all that. Alex being 21 years old doesn't. The most he could be is like, 16, 17? He could escape boarding school and go on adventures digging up temples and things that were Evie's forte btw, not Rick's.
They made it sound like this was the first time they'd dealt with a mummy with super powers. What? What part of Imohtep draining a person's life force, controlling sand, making people his slaves, super strength and invincibility was powerless to you? Not to mention in the second one he suddenly got kinesis, ability to climb anything and the power to use water. The Dragon Emperor had near god-like power yeah, but Imohtep was pretty damn super powered as well.
Really they just should've made a movie about the Dragon Emperor, that bit was much more compelling.
The movie was trying way too hard to be funny and mysterious, and I wish we'd seen more of Lin, Zu Yhan and that whole triangle.
I want you to know the Mummy 3 was on at brunch. I have never seen it, but I sat there with a piece of ham steak on my fork for 30 seconds doing some math to make sure the Nazis were showing up at a historically accurate time.
After two consistent nights of alcohol and bonfires with some amazing people I'm completely content to watch the three Mummy movies because Brendan Fraiser is fucking hot as shit in this movie and Evelyn and Rick are just perfect together (despite the fact that they changed actresses for the last movie).
