THE BORING SUNDAY

Sunday always begins with Saturday, I mean if you could consider that as an intellectual statement but then it is true in my case. Today, the day being Sunday began with Saturday with a good natured friend of mine calling in the dead of the night to know about my status whether I would attend a newly released movie on the following morning.

It’s been a quality of mine to pick wrong things, right from childhood as I recount many instances of my stupidity which continue to even today including the above mentioned day.

The movie of course was the Mummy 3: the tomb of the dragon emperor, one of the questions I ask myself after I come out of the plush theatre on Radhakrishnan Road, is money the only target in making sequels?

The answer is yes as I found out after small amounts of time say dt. The Mummy series have never inspired me, of for that matter I don’t think it has made of much of an impact on any of the movie going audiences say for except the Rachael Weiz loving public or those interested in cheap thrills (pardon me if you place Mummy along with The Return of the King on your top 10 movies list, this review is not for you)

The movie begins with Emperor Han (Jet Li, wasted) searching for the thing all foolish villains have been doing in our movies since the movies were born- the search for immortality and so he asks his general Ming and a witch who proves to be immortal (Michelle Yeoh) to help in his quest, when he does achieve it, he kills his general and wants the witch but then she curses her to turn to funny looking terracotta for the next 2000 years until our man Brendon Fraser who is by now retired and tired than the prequels is ultimately tired of his retirement and his (really boring son Luke Ford ) who drops out of college to become something of an archaeologist in china where he knows more than his scheming professor(more boring stuff ), he ultimately does what everyone in the audience know he will do –find the tomb of the boring emperor who comes to life with the help of a eggish-thing called stone or whatever of Shangri-la (the pass is portrayed as a small heaven on earth)

Family meets son and to be girl-friend, car chase, fireworks, machine guns, terracotta horses coming to life and breathing fire, Jet Li shouting most of the time, more gun shots, a couple of yeti’s who act as railway porters, rehash sequences of lord of the rings, one old couple kissing, dead people rising, more shouting, movie ends happily mummy goes into sand.

Extensively concentrating on China, personally feel that movie was made to promote the Olympics which again is boring, why does director Rob Cohen want to make such a boring movie I wonder.

The Verdict: watch it only if you want to relax and not concentrate on what is running on the screens, go on enjoy the push-back chairs and butter popcorn, you would be surprised that you never missed a thing.

Satyeki