Rise of the Mummy

I was sad this morning but after 2 minutes watching this movie, I laughed so hard. So I guess it's comedy and not horror. The director should have converted this movie to audio, at least we can enjoy the British accent.

This is an absolutely terrible movie. It looks like it has been made by a bunch of college students. Horror? No way. The Mummy looks like a cross between a volunteer at a first aid course and a villain from the cartoon version of scooby-doo.

The acting is that bad I was actually wondering if Danny Dyer was going to make an appearance.

Don't bother. Appalling.

Well, for starters this 2021 movie titled "Rise of the Mummy" actually does have an interesting enough looking cover/poster, and it was initially that which lured me to watch the movie. Well, also the fact that it is a mummy movie and the fact that it is a movie that I hadn't already seen helped win me over.

I must admit that I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations for this movie from writer Shannon Holiday and director Antonia Johnstone. Which was a good assumption, because the movie's cover actually was the best thing about the entire movie.

The storyline was adequate, although it was just too flat and mundane. Nothing overly impressive or spectacular happened throughout the course of the movie. So it became a tedious affair to sit through "Rise of the Mummy" (aka "Mummy Resurgence").

The acting in the movie was adequate enough, taking the movie's premise, budget and production into consideration. You know that you are not going to be in for any award-winning performances when you sit down to watch a movie such as "Rise of the Mummy". But I will say, that people seemed to know what they were doing, so the acting performances were actually adequate. Just a shame that the script and storyline was so horribly bland and not giving the actors and actresses much to work with.

And then there was the mummy. Well, points to the movie people here for trying. But there just wasn't anything remotely scary about the mummy in the movie. And it was painstakingly obvious just a guy wearing a tattered suit wrapped in linen cloth. The idea was good enough, but it just had that Halloween costume feel to it, so it was hard to take it serious.

"Rise of the Mummy" is labeled as a horror movie, but there was nothing scary in the movie. Well, maybe if you are a pre-teen sitting down to watch the movie then it might prove a bit scary. But for a seasoned horror veteran such as myself, then this was a mere stroll in the park.

While "Rise of the Mummy" wasn't the best of entertaining movies with a mummy theme, it luckily wasn't among the top worst movies of the genre. The movie is watchable, sure, but just don't expect anything grand.

My rating of this 2021 movie lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

Within 30 seconds you could tell this was going to be absolutely brutal, and it unfortunately doesn't get any better.

Things which are or could be good about this is the plot. It's a fairly interesting idea for a premise. The camera work is fairly well done.

Things which are brutally awful about this, is everything else about the film. The script is abysmal and was clearly written by someone with only a basic understanding of English. At one point we have some guy ( i think he's meant to be an Archaeologist because he's wearing an Olive coloured Keffiyeh as a face mask, and all Archaeologists wear Keffiyehs...Right?) actually utter the words 'a dead corpse', as though there is such a thing as a live corpse.

We have some of the cast stumble over their lines a few times, no doubt embarrassed that they had to speak these awful lines.

I suppose as a College project, it's not a disaster, but don't release it, keep it to yourselves, share it with friends and family, not the wider world where it ends up on Amazon Prime.

I only gave this a 1 star purely for the effort they put in to make the film.

This is not a horror movie. Very predictable script. Poorly written for all the actors. Very poor acting. One of the worst movies I've ever watched. However, it's very entertaining if you like comedy and enjoy trying to predict the next line to be spoken.