
Centuries ago, the evil Emperor Han was cursed by the sorceress Zi Yuan who transformed him and his army into mummies. In 1946, the explorer Rick O'Connell and his wife Evelyn O'Connell are invited by the British government to take a relic, the diamond "The Eye of Shangri-La" to China. The ancient stone is capable of resurrecting the Emperor Han and of pointing the way to Shangri-La and the eternal pool of life. When the couple reaches China, they meet their son Alex O'Connel... (Full plot summary below)
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Centuries ago, the evil Emperor Han was cursed by the sorceress Zi Yuan who transformed him and his army into mummies. In 1946, the explorer Rick O'Connell and his wife Evelyn O'Connell are invited by the British government to take a relic, the diamond "The Eye of Shangri-La" to China. The ancient stone is capable of resurrecting the Emperor Han and of pointing the way to Shangri-La and the eternal pool of life. When the couple reaches China, they meet their son Alex O'Connell, who has discovered the tomb of Han, and Evelyn's brother Jonathan Carnahan. The O'Connells are betrayed by their friend Prof. Roger Wilson, who is associated with General Yang. Yang wants to serve Emperor Han, so he resurrects the mummy and they head for Shangri-La. The guardian of Han's tomb (and Zi's daughter) Lin tells them that the only ways to destroy Han are to prevent him from reaching Shangri-La or by stabbing his heart with a cursed dagger.
Leave your thoughts about The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA loud, silly bit of non-stop action that again comes off like a poor cousin of the 'Indiana Jones' flicks. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithNothing special, nothing risible, nothing memorable, nothing that's going to last long at the cineplex. It just sort of evaporates on screen. And that's almost worse than being a bomb. At least you'll remember the bomb. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldAnyone in the market for an overblown and totally mindless adventure-comedy will certainly get his money's worth. |
| Movie TalkJason BestThe makers of the wildly lucrative Mummy franchise are flogging a dead corpse ... the adventure that's been disinterred is more than a little whiffy. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerNot exactly mummy dearest, the movie does have a supply of magical moments of stylish sorcery in store. It's just that if you're a bit of a purist about archaeological flights of fancy, you're not likely to dig it. |
| Worcester Telegram & GazetteDaniel M. KimmelYou don't believe it for a minute, but you may find yourself having too much fun to care. |
| Washington PostJane HorwitzTiresome and messy, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor borrows mightily from the Indiana Jones franchise and various martial-arts films, but it doesn't do what those films did nearly as well. |
| Movie City NewsDavid PolandThe movie feels like the direct-to-dvd version of The Mummy, complete with cheesy, already-done CG effects, and best of all, not a single actual mummy in the entire movie. |
| Salon.comStephanie ZacharekIt'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. |
| Beaumont JournalDanny MintonWere you to watch this film with the volume off, it might be a fairly good adventure film. |