Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
31
(33 sources)
31
(33 sources)
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75
Chicago Sun-Times
Now why did I like this movie? It was just plain dumb fun, is why. It is absurd and preposterous, and proud of it. Read Full Review » -
67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Dragon Emperor succeeds largely through sheer excess: It's doubtful that any idea was thrown out for being too implausible. Read Full Review » -
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Anyone in the market for an overblown and totally mindless adventure-comedy will certainly get his money's worth. Read Full Review » -
50
Time
This Mummy movie is really two movies: a good adventure epic, with all the Chinese people, and a wan one, with O'Connells and the other the Westerners. Read Full Review » -
50
TV Guide
Still passable popcorn fare, even if you'll barely taste it before swallowing. Read Full Review » -
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It's kind of fun but the twists and turns are all too familiar. Read Full Review » -
50
Entertainment Weekly
After an hour of inert exposition, a race through Shanghai gooses the movie alive. Then it plunges back into torpor. Read Full Review » -
50
New York Post
When I go to a Mummy movie, I don't want ninjas and yetis and men turned to stone. I want embalmed corpses and hieroglyphics. I want pharaoh. I want pyramids and sphinxes and Ace bandages. Did "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" take place on the Nile? Read Full Review » -
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
The movie bogs down in tiresome good guys vs. bad guys action cliches. Read Full Review » -
42
Baltimore Sun
It's like an Indiana Jones movie without rhythm, wit or personality, just a desperate, headlong pace. Read Full Review » -
42
Christian Science Monitor
There is one bit of good news. For all you abominable snowman fans out there, "The Mummy" is filled with yetis. And, boy, are they ever angry. Read Full Review » -
40
New York Daily News
Boredom is the very basis of this sequel, at least at the beginning. Read Full Review » -
40
Los Angeles Times
Though the new film has some good things, it does not have enough of them to make the third time the charm. Read Full Review » -
40
Empire
Competent, but so utterly bereft of any memorable moments that it becomes a bit of a bore. Perhaps it's time for a reboot - guy wrapped in bandages, shuffling around a pyramid, scaring people. You never know, it might just work. Read Full Review » -
38
Boston Globe
Despite exotic locations, epic cinematography, and much spectacular crash and bang, this "Mummy" feels like a threadbare toss-off. Read Full Review » -
38
ReelViews
Feels perfunctory and obligatory and, despite the return of several familiar characters, is more like an afterthought than an organic third piece of a trilogy puzzle. Read Full Review » -
38
Chicago Tribune
The film has one objective: to smack its audience in the face with fleeting, competing wows, over and over. Read Full Review » -
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Film Threat
It's a damn shame when the dreaded third leg in the franchise feels like a pale imitation of an already pale imitator. Read Full Review » -
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30
The Hollywood Reporter
Too much of the proceedings are silly rather than horrifying, with the nadir being the appearance of some particularly athletic Yetis who briefly pitch in to lend a hand. Read Full Review » -
30
The New York Times
The kindest thing to be said for this frantic, cluttered mess of cheesy computer-generated action-adventure clichés is that at least you can see how the estimated $175 million budget was spent. Read Full Review » -
30
Chicago Reader
For a movie about the undead, this lacks any supernatural chills, and by the time its obligatory final showdown arrives, it seems as hollow as the terra cotta soldiers brought to life by CGI. Read Full Review » -
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25
USA Today
Remarkably, the plot has much in common with "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," yet that bundle of fun has enough vision to make even its Barry Manilow interlude seem appropriate. Read Full Review » -
25
San Francisco Chronicle
As for Fraser, his clumsy humanity is endearing, but by now, assuming he has invested wisely, he should have enough money saved so as to not have to waste his talent anymore. Read Full Review » -
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25
Miami Herald
Tomb is the kind of movie you sit through dreading the expository scenes, because the acting is so bad and the dialogue so pointedly written to make sure the little ones in the audience can keep up with the plot. Read Full Review » -
20
Variety
Reheating the ingredients can't disguise how stale they are, as setpiece after setpiece strains to whip up excitement, only to fall flat while reminding of previous sequences that did such things ever so much better. Read Full Review » -
20
Wall Street Journal
The best news about this clangorous clunker is that it may well have vanquished the Mummy franchise. Read Full Review » -
20
Salon.com
It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell. Read Full Review » -
11
Austin Chronicle
Little more than a cluttered, noisy, and unsatisfying thrill ride to nowhere. Read Full Review »
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