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Name: The Mummy
Director: Stephen Sommers
Genre: action, adventure, fantasy
Released: 1999
Duration: 2 h 4 min
Rating: 7.1

The Mummy has an iRankMovies score of 64.4/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

The Mummy (1999)

The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed.

Release:1999

Runtime:2h 4m

Country:United States

Director:Stephen Sommers

Language:English

Genre

ActionAdventureFantasy

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Keywords

egyptCairoLibrarySecret PassagePastorPyramidSandstormSolar Eclipse

iRank64

The Mummy rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.1/10· 496K votes

Rotten Tomatoes64%

Metacritic48%

TMDb6.975/10· 10K votes

With 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 48/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About The Mummy

Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

Cast of The Mummy

Brendan Fraser
as Rick O'Connell
Rachel Weisz
as Evelyn Carnahan
John Hannah
as Jonathan Carnahan
Arnold Vosloo
as Imhotep
Patricia Velásquez
as Anck-Su-Namun
Oded Fehr
as Ardeth Bay
Kevin J. O'Connor
as Beni Gabor
Jonathan Hyde
as Allen Chamberlain
Erick Avari
as Terence Bey
Stephen Dunham
as Isaac Henderson
Corey Johnson
as David Daniels
M
Mohammed Afifi
as Hangman

The Mummy facts

Budget: $80M
Box office: $415.9M
Collection: The Mummy Collection

Our take on The Mummy

Stephen Sommers reimagines the classic monster tale as a rollicking adventure in this 1999 spectacle. Set in 1920s Egypt, it follows dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell, who stumbles upon the buried ruins of Hamunaptra and unwittingly helps awaken Imhotep, a high priest cursed three thousand years ago for a forbidden love and now bent on unleashing eternal doom. Sommers blends swashbuckling action, screwball humor and pulpy horror into breezy popcorn entertainment, leaning on charisma and pace rather than dread. It suits viewers who want old-fashioned treasure-hunting thrills with a wink, and anyone nostalgic for adventure films built on chemistry, sand-swept vistas and gleeful supernatural mayhem.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Ancient Egypt setting brings exotic adventure appeal combined with horror
•Archaeologist protagonist grounds treasure-hunting narrative in adventure context
•Action sequences balance thrills with humor maintaining entertainment momentum