The Mummy [DVD] [1999]

This film is beautiful and brings so many memories of adoring it back in the day. The actors are amazing in their roles.

Stephen Sommer's 1999 action-adventure flick The Mummy is a loose remake of the 1932 film starring Boris Karloff.The year is 1926 and we follow American treasure hunter Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) who leads librarian and amateur Egyptologist Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) and her con-man brother Jonathan (John Hannah) to find the mythical City of the Dead, Hamunaptra. What they don't know is that high priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo)'s corpse is buried there. Due to his sacrilege he was cursed and buried alive 3000 years ago. When Evy accidentally resurrects him he is endowed with supernatural abilities and craves only to resurrect his love Anck-su-namun (Patricia Velasquez) even though it could destroy the world.Unlike its 1932 counterpart, this film is a wacky summer blockbuster with a mix of action, horror and humor. In the original Imhotep was a tragic character while here he's a loud, bombastic villain portrayed menacingly by Vosloo (though he does lack the immense presence of Karloff). Rick is essentially Indiana Jones without the books (think Nathan Drake from the Uncharted game series) and pulls off his bits well - humor, charm and action.Score: 4/5Video quality is high and even though you hardly see any grain the detail is still unbelievable. The colors are vibrant and the shots of the Sahara desert are breathtaking. The visual effects still work - especially Imhotep's CGI rotten-corpse form.Score: 5/5Audio quality is something I can't really judge properly since I don't have the right sound system but on a stereo HD-TV it all sounds great - especially Jerry Goldsmith's beautiful score.Score: 5/5Extras are aplenty. You have a documentary about the 1932 original, another about the visual effects and many more. You have a "Visual Effects Breakdown" feature which shows the development of VFX for several key scenes. Then there are three commentaries: First is by Director/writer Stephen Sommers and Editor Bob Duscay; the second is by cast member Brendan Fraser and the third is by cast members Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor and Oded Fehr.Score: 5/5I highly recommend this to fans of the film and action-adventure films in general. Even if you already have the DVD this is a repurchase that you must own if you have a Blu-ray player.

I’ve loved this film ever since it first appeared in the cinemas so I was always going to give it high marks… provided it was delivered quickly and in good condition of course.As it turns out the DVD arrived incredibly quickly and the condition was as good as ‘brand new’.You don’t often experience a perfect transaction when buying something, particularly when buying on-line, but on this occasion I have to say it’s difficult to imagine how it could have gone any better.To sum it all up;The film is brilliant, it was delivered incredibly quickly and in perfect condition. What more could anybody want?Superb!Thank you 😁

To re-invent the film from 1932 the director Stephen Sommers who also wrote the screenplay completely changed the whole feel of the film, instead of trying to shock as the original production starring Boris Karloff who played Imhotep did.The director for this 1999 production has given the audience the ability to laugh as with the first scene with the delightful Rachel Weisz who plays the librarian Evelyn Carnahan who while trying to put a book back in its rightful place knocks over all the bookshelves ala a row of standing domino's in the museum she is working in, the first encounter with the Brendan Fraser character "Rick" O' Connell is years earlier when he is still a member of the Foreign Legion and he and his fellow Legionaries are at the site of the lost City of Hamunaptra looking for gold and fighting the local natives.The playful nature of the interaction of the characters with their witty dialogue never detracts from the set piece action sequences that for the time are top notch.For the Blu-ray version of this film I found the scenes such as the opening which recreates the Egyptian city of Thebes which is visually spectacular with the colours very bright but still looking life like and the shadows have various shades of black and grey and at no point did the fast action have any blurring or trance marks which is in 1080p 2.35.1 aspect and the audio track which is DTS-HD 5.1 is also very impressive.

It was interesting to say but not my cup of tea wouldn't watch it ever again.

A great film

This movie is scary, fun and clever. I always have fun when I watch this one, it doesn't get old no matter how often I watch it. It is superior to the sub par sequel which was really only made for Universal because this one was so successful. No annoying child always getting into trouble, no bitchy reincarnated woman who wants to kill people and rule the world (a dragged put cliché in several movies) and it also has better effects. The plot is also quite simple and works and this is the one I stick with of the trilogy.

I love this film and the bluray is a vast improvement over the dvd version. The sound is improved and the picture quality is excellent.

La película se ve y escucha perfecto en blu ray.Trae algo de granulado en imágenes obscuras, pero no resulta molesto.

As some of you may or may not be aware, "The Mummy" has been a Hollywood horror film staple since Boris Karloff first got bandaged up as the eponyous villain from the pyramids in 1933. Since then, there have been myriad iterations of The Mummy, with about 99.9% of those films drowning in their own schlock. Saying they were entirely awful & entirely forgettable is being too kind.So, it was with some pleasure that I discovered this movie which, defying the odds, is a more than worthy remake of the original. For those of you unfamiliar with the genre that was spawned by Karloff in 1933, The Mummy rises from a dusty tomb to avenge some wrong. The wrong usually has to do with a curse warning that truly dreadful things await anyone who defiles a tomb by entering it. Of course, no self-respecting archaeologist, or tomb robber, or adventurer, etc., pays any attention to the warning, especially if there's treasure involved. Once the tomb has been breached, The Mummy, who has been cursed to guard the tomb for eternity, never being able to truly die, rises & takes vengeance on the interlopers. And once risen, The Mummy proves very adept at killing everything that gets in his way. He also proves to be remarkably hard to kill himself. It's usually only the movie's hero, big surprise here, that is finally able to vanquish this original version of the walking dead.This movie was Brendan Fraser's break-out role. He plays Rick O'Connell, a down-on-his-luck an ex-Legionnaire who happens to know where a treasure city is buried. Unfortunately, for all involved, the treasure city is guarded by the mummy of an Egyptian High Priest named Imhotep. Imhotep was condemned to a living death when he tried to resurrect his lost love by employing blasphemous methods really frowned on by the religious establishment of the era. Fraser's O'Connell strikes all the right chords for this type of film. He's rough around the edges & has little to lose by going treasure hunting.He's also raffishly charming & handsome, traits not lost on Rachel Weisz, who plays Evie, the would-be (because she's a women) archaeologist whose discovery of a lost treasure map sets the whole adventure in motion. This was something of break-out role for Weisz as well, opening her up for roles that would eventually lead to an Oscar. As Evie, Weisz strikes the perfect balance between a young women determined to come into her own as an archaeologist & a klutch who is constantly triggering events that endanger her & give O'Connell yet another chance to save her.John Hanna turns in a bravura performance as Evie's often drunk & always on the make older brother. He steals every scene he's in & his turns at comic relief are one of the many things that make the tongue-in-cheek elements of the movie work so well.All in all, this is the type of swash-buckler, now called an "action" movie, that Hollywood used to be so good at producing. The good guys are really good, the bad guys are really bad & everyone is havin' a rockin' time in the desert. This one rates 2 bowls of buttered popcorn at least! Enjoy.

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Memphis in Ägypten, vor über 3000 Jahren: Hohepriester Imhotep hat was mit Anck-Su-Namun, der Schickse des Pharaos. Als die Affäre auffliegt, legen die beiden kurzerhand den Pharao um, was bei dessen Anhängern gar nicht gut ankommt. Imhotep wird daraufhin mit dem schlimmsten aller Flüche, dem Hom-Dai, belegt: er wird bei lebendigem Leib mumifiziert, noch dazu mit fleischfressenden Skarabäen in einen Sarkophag eingeschlossen und gut versteckt, denn sollte der Priester nach altägyptischem Glauben wiedererweckt werden würde er die Erde regelrecht heimsuchen. Ein paar Jahrtausende später, als der Grabraub in Ägypten nach dem Fund von Tut- Anch-Amuns Grabstätte so richtig boomt und Grabräuber aus aller Herren Länder das Land nun ihrerseits heimsuchen, kommt was kommen muss: eine naive Archäologin namens Evelyn schafft es irgendwie, Imhotep aus seinem Gefängnis zu befreien, und nun hat ihr Partner, der Abenteurer Rick O'Connell, alle Hände voll zu tun, sie vor Imhotep zu schützen; denn: mit Evelyns Tod soll Anck-Su-Namun wiedererweckt werden..Ich kann mich noch gut an den Kinorelease von „The Mummy“ im Jahre 1999 erinnern: ich ging seinerzeit nicht ins Kino, weil mich ein Remake des Filmes mit Boris Karloff aus den Dreißigern nicht so interessierte. Ein Freund erzählte mir jedoch, dass „Die Mumie“ eher in Richtung „Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes“ geht, und seitdem habe ich den Streifen bestimmt 10 Mal gesehen.„Die Mumie“ wurde von Stephen Sommers in Szene gesetzt, der mit diesem und dem Folgefilm wohl seine erfolgreichsten Filme drehte und sich durch diese beiden auf dem Zenit seines Schaffens befand. Alles danach aus seiner Hand, und ganz besonders „Van Helsing“, war für mich Schrott.„Die Mumie“ hingegen hat alles, was man sich unter perfektem Popcorn-Kino vorstellt: einen liebenswürdig-naiven Love Interest, der den Sprüche klopfenden Helden kongenial unterstützt, hinzu kommt noch ein ziemlicher dämlicher Bruder, der allerlei Lacher auf seiner Seite hat. Ergänzt wird der Cast durch Arnold Vosloo, und damals hätte es wohl kaum eine bessere Besetzung für den fiesen Hohepriester gegeben. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz und John Hannah harmonieren super und werfen sich die Bälle optimal getimt zu.„Die Mumie“ ist für mich die nahezu perfekte Unterhaltung, und die gut zwei Stunden Film vergehen wie im Flug. Mit Action satt, mit schmissigen, an Screwball-Comedies erinnernden Dialogen, oft wirklich witzigem Humor und kaum einer Sekunde Stillstand ist der Unterhaltungswert enorm. Hinzu kommen noch ein paar Special Effects, die sich auch heute noch sehen lassen können.Das Bild des 21 Jahre alten Filmes wurde wirklich liebevoll aufbereitet. Nur zu Beginn, während des Angriffs auf die Truppe in Hamunaptra, schleichen sich ein paar unscharfe Takes ein. Ansonsten ist das Bild fast die ganze Zeit sehr scharf, ohne überschärft zu wirken. Dabei bleibt das Bild bis in die entferntesten Hintergründe recht scharf. Ein toller Filmlook bleibt die ganze Zeit erhalten. Der Kontrast und der Schwarzwert sind außerordentlich, und bei Tageslichtszenen kann die Plastizität besonders beeindrucken. Das HDR wirkt sich in den dunklen Szenen sehr gut aus.Der deutsche und der englische Track liegen in DTS:X vor. Schon auf der HD DVD war der Sound toll, hier hat sich in puncto Surroundkulisse und direktionaler Effekte noch einiges getan, und auch von oben kommen allerlei Geräusche. Ein super Track.Extras habe ich nicht angesehen, ich vergebe zunächst mal den Mittelwert. Die SCheibe kommt sogar mit Pappschuber.Mein persönliches Fazit: Den Film sah ich schon im Kino, später auf DVD und auf HD DVD, die steht auch noch in meinem Regal. Bereits die HD DVD war auf sehr hohem audiovisuellem Niveau, und die UHD kann da in jedem Bereich noch ein paar Schippen drauflegen. Der Film selbst ist bereits jetzt ein zeitloser Klassiker, der perfekt gealtert ist und nichts von seinem Unterhaltungswert eingebüßt hat.

È un film da seguire fino in fondo è ricco di colpi di scena specie nella seconda parte