The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006)

Memorable, crazy movie

Good movie but grossly overrated

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

There are two actors in this--Malcolm McDowell and Simon Callow--but they are in it for maybe five minutes. So where did the budget go? Well it is a very nice film to look at. There is nothing new here. Well, given today's political climate maybe a nod to the Republican one percent. It is a cabal of rich business responsible for WW I who are the evil behind the scenes. They are looking for a green tablet that will allow them to completely dominate the world. Wow, never heard of that plot before. Anyway, if you want a nice sort of travelogue then worth a view. If you want the same plot with blood everywhere then try the remake of Conan. At least in that one you get a few bare breasts to view.

While I hesitate to call movies Indiana Jones ripoffs, this one isn't even trying to hide that fact. It's fairly blatant. The acting is sub par, but not terrible. The special effects (about which I normally don't care) are disgustingly bad. The plot line is absolutely ludicrous. In fact, I still can't believe I watched the entire thing. It's not even a fascinating ridiculousness; it's just crap. The action sequences are almost always tacked on with no relevance or importance. A notable example is when the antagonist has a supporting character captive in his car and is going to kill him. The captive escapes and they spend several minutes in an attempt at an exciting chase scene across rooftops only for the antagonist to catch him and kill him anyway. Nothing new was gained from the chase, only time wasted. I would go into further detail but it has been a while since I've seen this title, and I've tried to block most of it out of my mind. As such, I shall stop this review now.

I almost cried after watching this move, not because it was emotionally moving, but because I wasted $5 to rent it for the weekend. First of all, the editing sucked, some parts of the movie seemed to be recorded on a camcorder. The climax scene was more flat than week-old soda. Many things didn't make sense at all - such as French soldiers in full uniform in 100 degree heat, or dynamite blowing a perfect square hole in the ground in front of a tomb. The whole movie was not believable AT ALL. Honestly, I've seen better acting in porn. If you want a good Egypt movie, watch The Mummy instead.Too bad I can't give this movie negative stars.

One of the most fascinating things about this film (apart from Jonathan Hyde's extraordinary resemblance with Henry Daniell)is watching how the plot meanders and wanders with no destination in sight as if it were an Art Nouveau filigrain.I suspect that the archeology academics would seriously object at the unorthodox -but revolutionary- system that the protagonist and his buddies use to find the legendary Pharaoh's tomb, namely, by sitting in the terraces of Cairo's seediest bars and leaving them without alcoholic stock. Their interest is, however, scientific, except for the legionnaire buddy who is more interested in gold statuettes accidentally getting lost in his greatcoat pockets (Having mentioned the legionnaire, I must say that I admire the courage of the scriptwriter, who reveals to us -for the very first time- that Egypt was at the time a French protectorate, and not, as we've been led to believe by the official history, associated to the British empire)The bad guys stick to the old, slow, boring system of studying the terrain and excavating carefully according to old Ieroglyphs, while our hero and his friends discover the tomb the legendary grave by happily throwing dynamite sticks at random: a new path is opened thus for archeology.