When I’m putting things like The Mummy 3 in my top 5, you know it’s been a bad year at the movies.

That said, the photography is just great. There’s a long prologue that takes place in 56 BC or something: it’s just filmed amazingly, knocks your eyes out. All the Asian actors are all really great, you just buy them as part of this epic. Really intense, especially the women, you can’t take your eyes off them. That section is really a highlight.

However, there is one point later on when the movie just stopped. They’re at the Fountain of Youth and all of a sudden they start talking about family stuff and I turned to your mother and said “Did the movie just stop?”

But everything else was enjoyable. Very “Indiana Jones meets Lord of the Rings”. The filming is tremendous, the special effects are out of sight, just wonderful and the credits are great, featuring this really cool Asian art.

Worth seeing, a nice ride.

[Wow, my dad can really sell a not-great movie on the few great things about it, can’t he? 🙂 Honestly, sometimes what I WANT in a movie is mainstream escapism for a few hours. And this certainly sounds like it was better than the new Indiana Jones.]