The only thing slower than the titular ‘Mummy’ in this movie, is the plot. Jesus.
I’m going to keep this one brief, I’ve seen this film 3 times now. This was the ‘best’ watch to date. The one and a half star rating is literally all going on Karloffs performance, the lighting choices and the makeup.
Everything else about this film, in my personal opinion SUCKS…SO bad.
The scripts painfully slow and isn’t entirely clear up front about exactly WHAT the point of it is. When it finally does get going, it’s overly basic and generally unappealing. This whole film feels broadly like they just recycled a load of elements into a script to save money.
The tone is inconsistent and frankly bored me to tears, not to mention the casual quasi racism of the whole thing.
The films just a huge sluggish runaround to nothing that really just didn’t work for me.
Did you like the slow romance elements of ‘Dracula’? No? TOO BAD, the whole films in that style…he’ll we’ll just reuse half the soundtrack while we’re at it.
Did you like Karloffs turn of bringing Frankensteins monster to life on screen, while making him a semi emotional and relatable soul? TOO BAD! We’re gonna basically make him do the frankenstein thing again, only now he can talk, and he’s an asshole.
The direction and cine are fine. But feel generic and certainly don’t add anything to what was already tried in ‘Dracula’ or ‘Frankenstein’, the lighting is half decent and there’s a handful of ‘iconic’ shots. But a lot of this film could be summed up in two words ‘Slow Pan’.
Karloffs performance is fine enough, the rest of the cast are stuffy.
Basically, I there’s only 2-4 classic universal monster movies I haven’t seen yet…most of them ‘Mummy’ sequels. I consider this film to very likely be my least favourite of ALL those movies…and I include the REALLY bad late in the day ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ films in that list.
I just really don’t gel with ‘The Mummy’ it’s dull.
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