Another weekend has gone by and The Dark Knight has remained on top, just barely beating The Mummy 3. It stands around $395 million, after Monday it will be past $400 million, and that will be another big record broken, the fastest to get to $400 million, which was last held by Shrek 2, which took 43 days to get past it.
I had the chance to see The Mummy 3 Thursday night, and I was actually disappointed. It had good special effects, but felt really different compared to the other Mummy movies, which were really fun to watch. Rachel Weisz was replaced in the movie, and her and Brandon Fraser worked really well in the first two, it didn't really work between the new actress and Brandon Fraser, it was weird. It was a different director, Rob Cohen, when I first saw his name attached to the movie, I thought he would do a good job, but maybe not the best choice. I thought having Jet Li would be awesome, but he didn't have enough screen time to be very impressed with him. It was a very disappointing movie this summer, I was hoping for better.
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What will take Dark Knight from the top???
Toward the end of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh launch into a vigorous sword fight — and what a grand pleasure it is to watch these two world-class stars in action again...Their duel atop the Great Wall of China is a reunion of titans, an Old Timers' Day for two actor-athletes still in their sinuous prime. Forgive the effusions of an alter-kocker fanboy, but the flinty glamour of Li and Yeoh — buttressed by the stolid, sneering presence of top Hong Kong villain Anthony Wong Chau-sang (who in 1993 appeared in 15 films!) — is the best reason to catch this third in the series of Indiana Jones knockoffs.
Richard Corliss
TIME
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1828343,00.html
A memorably badass Jet Li.
Nathan Rabin
AV Club
http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/the_mummy_tomb_of_the_dragon
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