The Mummy 3

Here was the much awaited sequel of the Mummy and the Mummy Returns. The disappointment was in proportion to the hype and enjoyment that the prequels had.
Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li and others came together in this movie to portray the return of the mummy of the Dragon king, who was cursed by a witch, whom he double crossed.
O’Connor’s son, Alex, follows in his parents steps in finding and excavating the tomb site. He meets with some obstacles, but succeeds in finding the emperor. The financier of the excavation project is a Chinese general obsessed to bring back the Dragon king’s regime for the betterment of China. In spite of their efforts, Dragon king is brought back and seeks immortality. The O’Connors with Lin (daughter of the witch) and her mother, try to prevent him, but are unsuccessful. Now the Dragon king is invincible save a dagger, which will kill him if pierced through his heart.
After a battle of decomposing soldiers and victims and fight between the O’Connors and the Dragon King, he is finally sent to afterlife and the movie closes with some frivolity at Imhoteps, Jonathan’s bar in Shanghai.
The scenes were well made – good use of realistic and computer generated images. The camera, lighting and technical aspects were all good – except the coherence of the story. The jokes and punch lines were clichés from the older movies and were too overused to get laughter from the audience, especially someone who has watched the movies many times, to a point where they could recall jokes, etc.
A movie OK to skip, except for die-hard movie fans, but even for them, it might kill the appetite for more ‘Mummy’ fun.