The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
April. 11,2006 NRThousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Best movie ever!
I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
First of all, I would like to start this by saying I am a big fan of Casper Van Dien. Ever since Starship Troopers, I kept an eye on him and his work. This is to explain why I saw this movie, him and the fact that I'm a huge horror fan. OK, lets dig in:For a Hallmark production, it's rather hard to do worse than this. From the camera work that relies solely on cut scenes and fade to black, to horrible special effects, some of which inspired Birdemic, to a plot that helped gave life to Asylum productions and over the top acting coming from Jonathan Hyde, everything falls either in laughter or in cringe here.The first 5 minutes are enough for anyone to make an impression of what will come after. CGI as low as they get, no ration whatsoever, worst decisions taken throughout the film, forced humor and a bad mix of either heart warming emotions or plain ol' cruelty. A mix that didn't work, so a lot of face palming will be required in order to see it completely. There are 2 endings to this movie, one about the action and one about the aftermath. Don't know which one is worse, a battle that made almost no sense and then closure that seemed as forced as it could be. I was surprised to see that after more than an hour, a To Be Continued appeared, cause it actually got green lighted for 2 parts. Cheers!
I was subjected to watching this at a friend's,who thought I liked Egyptology; Which this certainly isn't! I couldn't believe quite how bad it was.It was rotten at the start and just got worse & worse & worse. As someone else has said Johnathan Hyde & Malcolm McDowell must have REALLY needed the money to make this turkey! Basically it's just a bad rip off from the excellent "The Mummy",oddly enough Hyde was in both of them;maybe he thought the Tut film was more of the same,it certainly isn't. If I could give a Raspberry Award it would go to this movie.As I can't I shall just blow a big raspberry at it. In the words of the great Carol Channing in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" "OH RASPBERRIES"
Too bad there's no negative stars rating... I was appalled by everything about this movie, including the chick's fake French accent, the terrible Indiana Jones/the Mummy ripoff, and the awful editing. I have honestly seen better acting in adult films. The few hours I spent watching this movie seemed like an eternity. The historical inaccuracies are so numerous that I found myself shouting "wtf" throughout the entire film. I have no idea how Russell Mulcahy's name ended up anywhere near this abomination. It shouldn't even be called a film. This "thing" is a pathetic attempt to combine the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Mummy' franchises.
Let's see, get a lot of neat sets and locations together, mix in lots of special effects and costumed extras, ditch the script and just tack it together, and finally completely forget about any real acting attempt and you have this uh, movie.The Danny Freemont character tries so hard to fill Indiana Jones' shoes that it basically ruins the whole movie, since Freemont could never be Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and everyone watching is painfully aware of this to the point of frustration.So then there is this Morgan Sinclaire character who goes about literally sucking up friends and enemies like some mad dust-buster (for what reason is unknown) and you would expect this personified evil to finally get what for, but what happens? He himself gets unceremoniously vacuumed up, and thus there goes the villain, sigh, whoopee.Oh you will just love the good against evil fan-dance of flapping wings - what a dismal finale.Best line of the this disaster - "I wish we could all forget"; you said it lady! Unfortunately they didn't forget to produce this wash out.