Sommers is a director who seems blissfully ignorant of the word "restraint." Though critics often cite T2 and Jurassic Park as being all digital flash at the expense of substance, compared to The Mummy they are intimate chamber dramas.
Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan, along with a rival group of careless American adventurers, must now do battle with the ancient foe and save mankind from Imhotep's reign of destruction. But now Imhotep is free from his eternal prison, and he's mighty pissed off. Seems the high priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) once started a forbidden relationship with Anck Su Namun (Patricia Velasquez), mistress to the Pharaoh Seti (Aharon Ipale), and paid dearly for it. Assigned to an archaeological dig at the ancient Egyptian city of Hamunaptra, things start to get complicated when, along with the brother-sister team of beautiful Egyptologist Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and wisecracking Jonathan Carnahan (John Hannah), O'Connell unleashes a centuries-old curse. Brendan Fraser stars as the hapless Richard "Rick" O'Connell, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion.
The basic plot of The Mummy should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the iconic monster first made famous in Universal's horror yarns of the 1930s, although here he is given a bit of a postmodern spin.
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