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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1532646" data-attributes="member: 812">I gave it a four.Steven Sommers can do better than this. It was much worse than The Mummy or even The Mummy Returns. The plot holes were just too huge to overlook, the lack of characterization kept me from engaging and it just got too complicated -- which was a problem not because I couldn't follow the story but because they kept having characters explain things as they happened which got tedious fast.I felt myself unable to sustain my involvement in the movie as the stagecoach chase progressed. That's where it really started to go off the rails for me. And things just got worse and worse from there on.It's too bad. I really enjoyed the opening twenty-thirty minutes. There just wasn't any heart to it, and I need that in a movie if I'm really going to enjoy myself.The creature effects were GREAT, and many of the landscape shots were very cool. The climactic battle was awful (compare with the final fight in The Mummy Returns) -- if that had delivered I'd've upped my rating by a couple of points I'm sure, but it was just watching a couple of cartoon characters move around on the screen. Lame.Not sorry I saw it, and recommended for fans of monster movies, but definitely sub-par.(cracks knuckles, waits for reaper to launch his attack)</blockquote>