Monday, August 04, 2008

Yahoo! lose another one.....Mummy III

It hard to know where to begin, this film is so mediocre. Let's start with the usually luminous Ms.Bello. What's with American actresses and English accents? Speaking as a new minted US citizen who was born in the UK, I found her accent worthy. BUT...it seemed to me by spending all her time keeping it firmly in place, she lost any nuance or inflection in her voice. Or do Americans truly feel that the British are so refined and stiff-upper-lipped that they always talk like that? Ms.Bello spoke exactly the same during mummy attacks as she did serving tea in her big country house. And it was irritating.

And what happened to the son? In the second movie he was a plucky British schoolboy and in this he is a cookie cutter bloodless American pile of blah.

And who allowed THAT yeti footage to stand? Talk about cheesey AND wrong at the same time.

The plot was boring. The mummies in no way creating any of the dread of the first film.

The best thing in the movie was seeing Michelle Yeogh and Anthony Wong in a picture together. OK, but not in scenes TOGETHER...But what are you gonna do? And was the quite lovely Isabella Leong in there simply because Zhang Zi-Yi has standards?