The Mummy Resurrected (2014)

I love this movie so much

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

First of the reason why I watched the movie, was because of the title and the cover picture. I remember when I first saw "The Mummy" (1999). I couldn't get enough of it. And I thought: Oh! Another Mummy movie! *-* I need to watch it! And when I watched it then I was like....What...?For my luck I watched it on the internet so I could skip most of the scenes. Thanks God we can do it. The be honest by good movies I am not doing this. First of all I didn't like the actors. They couldn't act! When I saw they act then I thought: Okay....Are we back in the early 2000's?? And second the storyline was just horrible...In the end I was like: THAT'S IT!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? I can't believe what I just did watch....The only thing what good about the movie was, were the effects. Those were well made.I would recommend you not to watch it. It is just waste of time....

To make a movie, a budget has to be raised from investors. I bet all investors of this movie must be gnawing their fingernails in frustration for this loss. This movie was so bad that I do not know where to begin my review.For starters, as someone who speaks and reads Arabic, I immediately saw red flags in the second scene when the girls are meeting each other. The signs behind them are an assembly of Arabic letters with no meaning; like writing "skejdifjglv fdkdpsa" and pretending that it is English, French or another Latin based language.Normally, a daughter who meets her father for the first time in 20 years is a little awkward and reserved because they do not yet know each other. Here, they both hug and embrace like long lost friends. This is so fake.Except for the last couple of scenes, throughout the whole movie, the daughter had a constant annoying big grin on her face no matter what the situation was, like "our friend just died" "Oh, that's OK". If she is only 20 years old, how can she read hieroglyphics and appears to be an expert in archeology and egyptology. These need a lot of experience and research and a 20-year old with a bunch of girl friends, all interested in archeology is a little stretch of the imagination.The special effects were fake, like the forward moving bandages can easily be seen as playing in reverse bandages being pulled.Strange ending: the mummy which was in the coffin has, all of a sudden, a decent looking woman's face; yet, she just lies there. Even though the daughter stabs her friend and her blood flows into the coffin, supposedly to resurrect the mummy, it still doesn't move. Again, even though, the mummy finally has a human face without bandages, the mummy killing the girls still has the original bandaged face. Was that a coordination blooper? As a movie buff, I give all movies a chance. I watch them before looking at reviews or ratings. I watched the whole movie hoping that somewhere along the story, a real thrilling adventure would take place. I was let down and extremely frustrated that someone could actually have the gall to call this video a movie with the caption "Evil has awakened". Please, go back to sleep. You don't scare anyone.I gave a 1-star rating for casting pretty girls, although they really need acting lessons.

Many people seem to be watching this under a false misconception, and are going in under the impression that it is connected to the popular 1999 Universal remake "The Mummy", and it's sequels/spin-offs. This is not the case. This film has nothing to do with those films- no shared cast or crew, no common story elements, not even a common studio producing this "effort." It has literally nothing to do with those films. This is what is commonly referred to as a "Mockbuster"- a low-budget film from a studio specializing in low-budget productions, which attempts to capitalize off of the success of much larger, more profitable studio films by making itself LOOK like those films through deceptive tactics like using similar titles, similar advertisements/poster designs, etc. But please know- this film and it's creators are in no way connected to or affiliated with any previous "Mummy" movie in any way.I felt it important to get that out of the way, as the "mockbuster" trend has been a growing problem in the world of home entertainment (thanks to companies like "The Asylum" who specialize almost exclusively in making rip-off "mockbusters"), and has for at least the past decade caused an increasing amount of confusion for consumers and movie-fans.I'll also note another important fact- "The Mummy Resurrected" is so bad... I wasn't able to make myself sit through it start-to-finish. It's cheap. Lazily constructed. Filled with flimsy scares and ludicrous amounts of padding. And dreadfully acted. Out of the 70ish-minute runtime (yes, it's only about 70 minutes, and is padded out to 80 with a prolonged opening credits and even more prolonged closing credits), I've maybe seen 40 minutes start-to-finish, before skimming through the rest on Fast-Forward.To go over the plot is virtually pointless. You know what you're getting into plot-wise. Curse tomb, evil mummy, blah-blah-blah. What you're really interested in are the actors, the scares, the "spooky" effects and the titular Mummy himself. And those are all drastic let-downs.For starters, the actors (all basically unknowns) mostly fall flat. It's hard to tell if they're truly "bad actors" of if they just can't manage to build any performance from the terrible writing and direction... but they almost universally fail at connecting with the audience and building any personality. This is one of those cases of "cardboard cut-out" performances, where a plank of wood with a face drawn on it would've worked just as well on screen. But I'm not going to blame the actors for this 100%. As I said, it could very well be the product of the lousy production.The "scares" are just dreadful. For starters, this is a remarkably boring film (mainly due to Patrick McManus' atrocious directorial choices), and the scares are all equally boring and phoned in, often being so needlessly prolonged and padded, they become unintentionally amusing as a result. (Case in point one scene, where bandages ssslllooowwwlllyyy snake along the ground and cover up a victim for what feels like a short eternity.)The visual effects are poor. Mainly comprised of terrible CGI "sand" that looks like early area 3D-video-game graphics. It doesn't feel organic or even remotely real-to-life. And the mummy itself is probably going to make you laugh out loud whenever it's on screen. It looks like any cheap "zombie" costume you could find in a Halloween shop, that's been wrapped up in nice, new clean gauze from a CVS pharmacy. You know you're in trouble when your 2014 film's mummy looks objectively worse than the creature from the original 1932 Boris Karloff film. Evidently, 80+ years of development in makeup effects don't mean squat if your design team is completely incompetent."The Mummy Resurrected" is one of the most painful entries in the "mockbuster" genre I've seen in quite some time. It's so cheap and padded, it's virtually unwatchable, and it can't even be bothered to give us even a remotely interesting mummy to look at.This one easily earns it's 1 out of 10 rating. Are we sure this wasn't meant to be a parody or something? Because it certainly doesn't work as a serious film, and supplies more unintentional chuckles than thrills...

I don't even know where to begin there was no storyline, no plot, all the actresses in it were pretty and young just to get young boys hormones going, it made no sense and by the end of the movie your sitting there thinking wow even Brendan Frasier would be sad right now. Don't WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ITS TERRIBLE AND LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE WAS JUST Extremely BORED AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO TRY AND MAKE THE WORST RIPOFF EVER MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. I would rather watch the original mummy a hundred times before ever considering watching this again. I loved the mummy with Brendan Frasier and own all of them but this makes me sad someone tried to tie this movie with those.