The Mummy

"The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed."

1999 2h 4m EN

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7.0

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64%

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7.1

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★7.0TMDB · 10,454🍅64%Rotten Tomatoes●49Metacritic★7.1IMDB · 508,368

AdventureActionFantasy

Synopsis

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Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

“The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed.”

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Cast

Brendan Fraser
Rick O'Connell
Rachel Weisz
Evelyn Carnahan
John Hannah
Jonathan Carnahan
Arnold Vosloo
Imhotep
Patricia Velásquez
Anck-Su-Namun
Oded Fehr
Ardeth Bay
Kevin J. O'Connor
Beni Gabor
Jonathan Hyde
Allen Chamberlain

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Stephen Sommers
Writers: Stephen Sommers, Lloyd Fonvielle, Kevin Jarre
Languages: English, Arabic
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $80M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 5.2× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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27 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Arabic.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Mummy Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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234+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Stephen Sommers, shot by Adrian Biddle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Original score by Jerry Goldsmith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Stephen Sommers directs. Adrian Biddle behind the camera. Jerry Goldsmith scores. Bob Ducsay cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Arabic.

Trivia

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1Mid-budget at $80M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 5.2× over at the box office.
327 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Arabic.
5Part of the "The Mummy Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6234+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Stephen Sommers, shot by Adrian Biddle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Jerry Goldsmith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Bob Ducsay shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz and John Hannah carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed.".
12IMDB entry: tt0120616 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1310,454 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 26 themes, including "egypt", "cairo", "library", "secret passage".
15Released under 17 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Adrian Biddle
Original score: Jerry Goldsmith
Editing: Bob Ducsay
Production design: Allan Cameron
Costume design: John Bloomfield
Makeup / hair: Ben Nye Jr.
VFX supervisor: John Andrew Berton Jr.
Sound: Rick Kline
Stunt coordinator: Simon Crane
Runtime: 124 min · 2h 4m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $80,000,000
Box office: $415,885,488
Return: 520% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Mummy (1999)
Rotten Tomatoes: 64% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 49/100
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 508,368 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 24 nominations total

Part of

The Mummy Collection

The Mummy film series is a remake of The Mummy, loosely based on the original 1932 film. The first two films in the series were written and directed by Stephen Sommers.

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Stephen Sommers

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Gimly2017-06-21
★ 7/10
Trying to cram action, adventure, fantasy, romance, comedy and horror into a single should not have worked, especially not in a Universal Monsters reboot, but 1999's The Mummy is so much damn fun, that they manage to pull it off with aplomb. Final rating:★★★½ - I strongly recommend you make the time.
John Chard2019-09-25
★ 8/10
It's not horror you know - it's just real good family fun. The Mummy is directed by Stephen Sommers, who also co-writes the screenplay with John L. Balderston. It stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo & Kevin J. O'Connor. Jerry Goldsmith scores the music and cinematography is by Adrian Biddle. Plot sees Fraser as ex-Foreign Legionnaire adventurer Rick O'Connell, who teams up with Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan (Weisz) and her cowardly brother Jonathan (Hannah), to try and stave off the apocalypse born out of the unleashing of the mummified remains of High Priest Imhotep (Vosloo). It's true to say that "Indiana Jones" raised the bar for action/adventure films in the modern era, the kind involving treasure, artifacts and mystical perils. It's arguably true enough to say that with "Raiders of the Lost Ark" the standard has been set so high it's unlikely to be bettered. There's been a number of similar films to have come along post "Indiana Jones", films that have one thing in common, that the critics are scornful towards them whilst the box office has kerchinged with the sound of cash being spent by the cinema going public. "The Mummy" is one such movie. Universal rework their own 1930's creeper to deliver a high energy, effects laden adventure full of wit, stunts and eye candy fun. Yes it's "Indiana Jones" lite, but so what? We may be lacking an intellectual script, but for sheer guts, construction of set-pieces and interesting story, this delivers wholesome family entertainment. Cast are fine, Fraser comfortably files in for square jawed heroics and Weisz is suitably posh, spunky and sexy. Hannah revels in playing a wastrel type, while Arnold Vosloo is enjoying himself greatly. However it's ultimately the effects that win out, explosive and eye poppingly enjoyable, Sommers and his team have not pulled any punches in their willingness to entertain all the adventure film loving family. 7.5/10
Wuchak2019-12-06
★ 8/10
Indiana Jones Horror Story If you think "The Mummy" (1999) is a remake of the glacial, ultra-serious classic of the same name, think again. This version is just as much an action/adventure (and comedy) as it is horror; and not 'horror' in the sense that it's scary, but rather horrific. Also, be ready for quite a few laugh-out-loud parts. Everything magically works, granting the viewer a highly entertaining romp. Brendan Fraser is perfect as the Indiana Jones wannabe. Rachael Weisz is so cute it's hard to take your eyes off her (WATCH OUT for her opening library scene). Arnold Vosloo is great as the mummy Imhotep and Oded Fehr is memorable as Ardeth Bay, the Magi guardian of the City of the Dead. John Hannah offers some comedic amusing moments as Eve’s brother and Kevin J. O'Connor is perfect as a selfish, disloyal, greedy little weasel. "The Mummy" is not great ponderous art as in, say, "Apocalypse Now" or "2001: A Space Odyssey," but it is great adventure and horrific fun. On that level, it's filmmaking of the highest order. The movie runs 2 hours, 4 minutes, and was shot in England, Morocco and Glen Canyon, Arizona. GRADE: A-