When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I've seen the movie more than once and whether on the big screen or TV, Lesley-Anne Down's hair coloring was so red that it took the attention off whatever was happening in a scene. I kind of got that it made her character more visible in crowd scenes, but it was really an annoyance. Don't know whose idea it was to give her hair such a jarring color, but it was so distracting. The romantic storyline with Frank Langella lacked any chemistry between the characters, it could have been stronger. Loved the Egyptian location and the archaeological treasures, tombs, etc. Made me want to visit and explore the Valley of the Kings. Overall it was a disappointment , not as interesting as the Robin Cook novel.

This movie was great.Langella was believable as an Egyptian and Lesley-Anne Down had an uncanny ability to either retain her hairdo under ANY circumstances or change it by slipping on a carpet runner.Sir John Gielgud does not play an Egyptian in the film as suggested earlier.He is a Brit living there for a long time running an antique/souvenir shop.The movie was much better than the book,where Erica Barron only briefly met Achmet Khazam.This film is one of my all time faves and was actually made to cash in on the King Tut exhibit touring the world.The film has an expensive look to it and cost about 17 million dollars to make.It has newbie Egyptologist Erica Barron(Lesley-Anne Down)from Boston traveling to Egypt and getting into deep trouble like most Americans.Cinematography is excellent and while the plot might be thin in places,the film works.Just two years earlier leading man here Frank Langella portrayed Dracula in the 1979 film of the same name with a dicscoesque quality to him.Chiefly you will learn that mummy's arms and hands make excellent torches.I'll give it nine out of ten points for continuity problems.

Some nice scenery, but the story itself--in which a self-proclaimed Egyptologist (Lesley-Anne Down) visits Egypt and, in the course of doing Egyptologist things in the most un-Egyptologistic of ways (e.g., flash photography in the tombs, the handling of old parchment, etc.), uncovers a black market turf war and somehow (in the span of two days, no less!) becomes that war's jumpsuit-wearing epicenter--is more puzzling than any riddle the Sphinx ever posed. Down is simply awful as the visiting British scholar (that she seems to know absolutely nothing about the culture of Egypt and even less about antiquities is the fault of the writers, certainly; but that she's annoying as all get out is her own fault entirely), and the rest of the cast, including Sir John Gielgud and Frank Langella, seem as downright confused by the proceedings as I was. In short, not what you'd expect from Schaffner (Planet of the Apes, Patton) and co.Worth watching for a laughably dated scene in which Down rails against all male scholars, blaming them for her failure as an academic, while bathed under the softest light Hollywood could muster. To top it off, she spends the next hour of the film shrieking and harried and running into the arms of any dude she can find. Wow, talk about your performative irony!*Note to would-be Egyptologists: take a year or two of Arabic in grad school. It'll really help out in the long run...

The first half is ok, nothing more. The second half is so bad it's almost comical. Even Langella at his sexiest can't save this turkey.