{"id":39985,"date":"2013-12-10T22:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T05:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/movie-review-the-mummy-1999.html"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:09:28","slug":"movie-review-the-mummy-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/movie-review-the-mummy-1999.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "The Mummy" (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Y'know, I just love this movie so much, enough to help me forget how quickly downhill the franchise went after it. This one's on my desert island list.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of The Mummy (1999)<\/a>
\n It’s a horror film. It’s an action flick. It’s a romantic comedy. It’s all three in one, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun. The primary cast are all great in their roles — Brendan Frazier as treasure-hunting solder-of-fortune Rick O’Connell; Rachel Weisz as perky archaologist wannabe Evy; John Hannah as Evy’s wastrel brother, Jon; Arnold Vosloo as the evil but tragic Imhotep, the titular Mummy; and Kevin O’Conner as the scumbag schmuck sidekick, B…\n <\/p>\n

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Y'know, I just love this movie so much, enough to help me forget how quickly downhill the franchise went after it. This one's on my desert island list.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of The Mummy (1999) It’s a horror film. It’s an action flick. It’s a romantic comedy. It’s all three in one, and it’s a … Continue reading “Movie Review: "The Mummy" (1999)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48448,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/movie-review-again-the-mummy-1999.html","url_meta":{"origin":39985,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review (Again): "The Mummy" (1999)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 22-Nov-14 9:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Y'know, I just love this flick. 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