Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
joel_exc
This movie reminded me of a lower budget version of the Nicole Kidman film 'The Others'. The performances are good,(sometimes very good) and the spirit of Bram Stoker's tale is well created. The sound mix is excellent and though this is a very different movie from the wonderful Brendan Fraser / The Rock Egyptian tales, set your expectations accordingly and I feel you will not be disappointed. There is a difference between the pace of a stageplay and a twenty-first century movie, and whilst 'Bram Stoker's Legend of The Mummy' could not be described as 'brisk' or 'energetic', it is a well told story worthy of the £1 I got it for at Poundland!
lastliberal
I had to struggle to get through this one. Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman) was the only reason I tuned in. he usually does a great job, and he really wasn't all that bad in a poor vehicle such as this.This is one of those films that you need a bucket and a gun before you watch. That is to either throw up or shoot yourself if you can't escape.The mummy was pathetic, there was little horror, and the ending was a mess.Stay away - far away.
mrtroll2006
I watched this piece of sh*t last night and it is one of the few movies that bored me to tears. Where do I start? There is so many awful things with this movie I'm at a loss of words. I felt so bored i could of reached across the television screen and literally strangled somebody myself especially the actress.This is one of those movies you care nothing about the characters in fact you wish they'd hurry up and die. None of the deaths were remotely interesting. Well,there was that dude that got stuck in this quick sand like sh*t and got eaten alive by those big hissing cockroaches that they serve on Fear Factor all the time. The death wasn't gory nor was it scary but out of all the deaths in the movies is the best one.I can't think of a god d@mn good thing to say about this movie. I am disappointed in Louis Gossett Jr. Is he that hard up for cash? The 80s were a boom time for him...An Officer and a gentlemen,Enemy mine and a few other good movies to this. If I was hired to act in this piece of crap I wouldn't use my real name or main alias. In fact I don't think I'd want to be credited for this. Yes,the movie is that bad. It's not one of those flicks either that is so bad it's good. It's just plain bad. I have never in my life been so bored after almost 2 hours. I felt like offing myself just to end the terrible pain of this movie.Why is this movie bad you ask,I as a horror movie fan will tell you....1) Bad writing,I can't think of a lamer yet overused plot as this. How many Mummy movies is there? Too many too count. Couldn't they try to be original or were they going for the boring est movie of all time. Those writers deserve to be shot for putting such crap upon us viewers.2) Bad casting. Louis Gossett Jr must have been hard up to be reduced to such a crap-fest. I've seen better acting from chimps. That actress was so terrible,everyone else sucked...some of them look embarrassed to be in it.3) No suspense...No thrills...No gore....enough said.4) No good special effects...all on a very cheaply made budget. Has Hollywood no shame? I could go on and on about how this movie sucked ass but I won't. It's one of those movies you never want to see again and I can safely say I never will watch it again. How dare HBO put on such crap?
slayrrr666
"Bram Stoker's The Mummy" is another rather traditional mediocre mummy film.**SPOILERS**Robert Wyatt, (Eric Lutes) a budding art historian, is called by Margaret Trelawny, (Amy Locane) his ex, to her father's house to help her with a mystery. Once he gets there, the staff isn't receptive to him, and treat him as an outsider. When strange events begin happening around the mansion, Robert seeks out her father's old accomplice, John Corbeck, (Louis Gossett Jr.) And brings him back to the house. He believes that Margaret's father has come under the spell of Egyptian Queen Tera, one of the most powerful queens. When they find that Tera has taken possession of Margaret, Robert and Corbeck race to stop her from enacting an ancient curse.The Good News: The film is based upon a novel by Bram Stoker, and in fact has been done before as the film "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb," too which there are certain similar characteristics. The fact that the evil being is called Queen Tera, the possessed woman called Margaret, the born-on-the-day-of-discovery angle, a ruby-bedecked ring as a means of possession, and the ailing father all pretty much the same between the films. This allows for some familiarity between the stories and that increases some entertainment if we know a little bit about what's going on in the film. The film does have some nice sequences. One of the best is an attack on a rainy night outside a phone-booth. It sets up the attack beautifully with an earlier attack, and here is the final payoff. It goes out in a pretty grand fashion that features some nice suspense to ago along with the payoff. The resurrection sequence at the end is nicely realized, and the way it plays out provides some nice moments.The Bad News: The mummy sub-genre has had relatively little success in the mainstream, mainly because the myth surrounding it is one that's always been a hard one to film properly. It's always been a hard one to get down, and here the pattern continues. The familiarity with the other film raises the concern over where or not this can be a remake or not, and the debate is a tricky one as both sides have valid arguments. The fact that this is billed as a mummy movie is also a misprint. True, there is a mummy in the film, but there is no shambling corpse wrapped in bandages after people who desecrated it's tomb. It's more of a supernatural film that features a mummy as the source of a curse. There is such a slow pace to this that it can be maddening for something to happen. The deaths are OK, but fall into a rhythm that is pretty far apart. Apart from the deaths, there is really not that much action to speak of, so it's incredibly slow and a long time occurs before anything happens.The Final Verdict: Mummy films traditionally aren't all that spectacular, and this one follows the pattern, with a slow pace, not a lot of action, underwhelming deaths, and a mummy that takes forever to get on screen. It's not a total loss, but it's not all that spectacular either. Exercise caution before giving this a shot.Rated R: Violence, Nudity, some Language and a brief sex scene
