What I am writing its review is the movie "The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" which has finally came out after 7 years the second sequel of its line : The Mummy Return.... =_= pretty long time already.
THE SUMMARY
Opening with the rise to the power of Emperor Han, the Dragon Emperor who had successfully conquered most of enemies as well as he mastered five elements. He however, is not able to conquer his own death and he decided to seek for a sorceress named Zi Yuan who knew where to get the secret of immortality. He wanted Zi Yuan for himself and instructed his General not to touch her. Too bad as they have fallen in love during their search for the secret of immortality. Unknownst, their journey was spied by someone who's loyal to Emperor. Upon their return from the search and Zi Yuan made a ritual for the Emperor, she then was invited to the balcony to witness the murder of her beloved man. Soon, the Emperor discovered that he together with his army is cursed into terra cotta statues. Zi Yuan of course, successfully escaped to somewhere wounded.
Jumped in 1947, the O'Connell couple was given a task to deliver "Eye of Shangri-La" to a museum in China. Their adventure began as Roger Wilson who worked with Alex O'Connell during the exavation to locate the Dragon Emperor's tomb in a league with a paramilitary army group led by General Yang. General Yang had resurrected the Dragon Emperor with the "Eye of Shangri-La" into the animated terra cotta statue form. A msyterious Chinese lady tried to kill the Dragon Emperor with dagger but she failed as they escaped away.
At this time, the O'Connells family must stop the Dragon Emperor who wishes to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service. With the guide of Lin, a mysterious Chinese lady, they chased to Himalayas and tired their best to block them from locating the pool of Shangri-La. In the process, Lin summoned her friends, Yeti to assist them to block them as well but the Emperor succeeded in locating the pool of Shangri-La. Rick O'Connells get injured during protecting his son, Alex.The O'Connells reached Shangri-La first and got Rick healed by Zi Yuan who is later revealed to Lin's mother and she was rescued by a Yeti after escaped from the Emperor over 2,000 years. O_O They were ambushed by the Emperor who was able to shower into the pool without any problem. The pool restored him to human form and granted him a shapeshifting ability as well. He transformed into three headed dragon and kidnapped Lin to the excavation site to summon his Terracotta Army.
At the same time, Zi Yuan managed to revive the undead army that buried beneath the Great Wall by sacrifricing her immortality and that of her daugther. Led by the General Ming, the massive battle ensued while Zi Yuan went to fight one-to-one with the Emperor. She sacrifriced her life to steal the dagger then gave Lin the dagger and told her to stab the Emperor's heart. Alex and Rick joints to stab the Emperor causing the Emperor to be destroyed.
The peace restored back at Imhotep, a pub which was once operated by Jonathan... Alex and Lin dancing, finally can kiss. And the old O'Connells were dancing as well..
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The concept of the Mummy 3 is a bit disappointed. I thought the concept of the Eygptian mummy would be re-stylized to Asian but the one that Jet Li portrayed is not really the Mummy. What the heck the Mummy can transform into three headed dragon? The concept run off from the basic concept of Mummy. Hahaha.. Whatever.. it's only my personal opinion since I love the "undead". It reminded me of doing this concept during my Final Year Project before the graduation.
Anyway, the story is just good...Let's say if there is 10 stars for voting, I would give its only 6 stars. Hahaha. Brendan Fraser still did a good job. But I missed Rachel Weisz who portrayed Evelyn back in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Her character was very attractive - lovely and adventureous. But this time, Eve is totally different, really a rough and forceful woman! I feel like wanna faint when watch her action. OMG! =D If there is a sequel from The Mummy, I wanna Rachel Weisz back to return to portray this Evelyn!!! I wish!
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