That's probably not important in the grand scheme of things, there's no real connection to anything, I just thought it was worth pointing out. I liked this one less despite having more memories of it. And this is strange in that I liked the original movie more despite having less memories of it when I watched it in theaters when I was 11 than I do this one. Before I so rudely interrupted myself, I was trying to make the point that this movie doesn't hold up as well as the original. Neither here nor there, I suppose, since we're here to talk about The Mummy Returns. It's almost like we're watching a completely different person in all honesty, that's how good he is now compared to how awful he was here. Like I mentioned in my review of Skyscraper, he's not gonna win any serious acting awards, but he's a good actor. With that said, however, I feel like The Rock's awfulness in this movie makes his improvement as an actor that much more noticeable. If you had me choose between this version of The Rock and Keanu Reeves, I'd take Keanu Reeves every day of the week and twice on Sunday. The reason I say this is because, despite the fact that he's in like, maybe, 5% of the movie (and maybe even less), The Rock was just downright fucking dreadful here. Having said all of that, going back to this for the first time since 2001 (2002 at the latest), it makes The Rock's success even more impressive.
Well, I mean, if you wanna get technical, it was his charisma and his success in the WWF (now WWE) that opened the door for him. His role in this movie was what, really, opened the door for him to become one of the biggest box office attractions the world has ever seen. I believe he appeared in an episode of That 70s Show where he, actually, played his father (also a wrestler). I think first things first, if I'm not mistaken, this was The Rock's first major film role. Though, of course, if you see the score I gave it, then you can clearly see that this did not get the same score. I remember, in my review of The Mummy, which I just wrote last night so I SHOULD remember it, that I was hopeful for this movie considering how well the original held up twenty years after the fact.
#THE MUMMY RETURNS MOVIE MOVIE SERIES#
Seems he's also made a bit of a comeback, if it can be called that, on an FX anthology series called Trust and his performance has been acclaimed, so good for him.
And, doing a little research, it seems that he's gone through some difficult times in his life and that's really unfortunate. I mean, clearly, he's still active, it's just that this was the peak of his career in terms of being a major box office star. In all seriousness, I have nothing against Brendan Fraser and it's sort of weird how he just disappeared after this movie came out. That's probably three more than anyone should ever do in a month, much less a year. I've reviewed three Brendan Fraser movies this month. We now, once again, return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
The review will be kept as is, of course, I don't censor or edit mysef unless I spot grammatical mistakes and then I just fix them. So, for this review at least, I go right back to the Notepad, unless the power comes back on before I finish this and I am able to continue the review on Gmail. Our system is horrifyingly archaic and the powers that be have kept it so the electrical grid hasn't been updated in decades. Power outages like this, that sometimes last up to more than a day, happen just because. If you ever think about moving to Puerto Rico, don't. I literally just turned on my laptop to write this review for The Mummy Returns and the power went out.
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