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Old 2nd July 2022, 06:04 PM
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Tale Of The Mummy. 1998.

In Egypt a prince was buried in his tomb under the sands, a archaeologist and a team finds the tomb and disappears. Years later the archaeologist's granddaughter and another team find the resting place and awaken the prince.

Anther take on The Mummy movie this time set in modern day time and London with Russell Mulcahy as co-story writer and director with a somewhat decent star cast with Sir Christopher Lee as the first team leader and doing a voice over at the start.

This did sort of resemble the team from 1923 dig with Lord Canarvon and his search for Tutankhamun's Tomb in The Valley Of The Kings. Sean Pertwee, Gerard Butler, Lysette Anthony, Louise Lombard and Michael Lerner play the present day tomb raiders while Jack Davenport and Jason Scott Lee play the detectives who think they are on a trail of a serial killer and Shelley Duvall as a medium.

The special effects were probably designed well in someone's head to be good but the early work of CGI can be a disappointment, the kills are done off screen so there is no gore just see the aftermath, there is two versions to this the original theatrical cut of 90 mins and extended 2 hour cut, in honesty the directors cut does not do the film any justice.

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(Also known as Talos The Mummy)
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