Honestly, it’s just not worth trying to figure out, and I suspect few people even try. Or at least he’s a spiritual descendant or reincarnation of one of these figures. Also, Rick is now identified as one of the Medjai or bodyguards (because of some tattoo he doesn’t remember getting), which means he’s tasked with protecting Evelyn.
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In this movie they try to fix things up by bringing Velasquez back and making Weisz’s character into Velasquez’s step-daughter (I think). I mentioned in my notes on The Mummy how improbable it was that Imhotep would mistake Rachel Weisz for Patricia Velasquez. Why all the rigmarole about Alex escaping from the train at Karnak when he gets recaptured right away? Just another example. There are too many flashbacks, and too much exposition, even for a mummy movie. It’s just another example of too much going on. The only place this really comes in to play is in the final dash to the pyramid, which hardly seems worth it. Another example is the fact that Alex has to get the bracelet off his arm in seven days or he’ll die. There’s a lot of unnecessary stuff like this. If you awaken the Scorpion King, and then kill him, but only with the ceremonial spear, then you get to command his army, which will allow you to rule the world? Whatever. For starters, did the film really need all the stuff with the Scorpion King? It seemed to complicate things far more than necessary, and at the end of the day it just confused me. Is it to make up for their stiff and rather dull feature monsters? That would be less necessary here, as Arnold Vosloo’s Imhotep is a compelling enough figure on his own, but there’s still way too much going on. I don’t know why so many mummy movies have such bewildering plots. The problem is that they don’t add up to as solid a movie as the first one. But overall I think the good parts outweigh the bad. I could go through a similar list for things I didn’t like, headlined by the terrible CGI work on the scorpion monster at the end. It’s hard to think of another movie of this kind where the villain kills himself rather than being destroyed by the hero. And I could appreciate Imhotep pitching himself into hell when realizing that his eternal love hadn’t been worth it after all.
I rolled my eyes at Izzy’s dirigible but, sure, it was fun. I also liked several of the set-piece action scenes: the fight on the double-decker bus with the soldier mummies, for example, and the attack by the tribe of mummy pygymies in the jungle. For some reason this made me think of Another Thin Man. Rick and Evelyn are happily married and have a plucky but not-too-irritating sprog. I like the way we pick up some ten years after The Mummy. There are a lot of things I like about The Mummy Returns, so let’s start with that.
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