The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Rob Cohen

Writers (WGA):

Alfred Gough (written by) &
Miles Millar (written by)

Release Date:

1 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

A New Evil Awakens.

Plot:

In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo Rick and Alex O'Connell unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard centuries ago.

Plot Keywords:

Closing Credits Sequence | Battle Scene | Immortal | Husband Wife Relationship | Three Headed Dragon

Awards:

2 nominations

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Cast

Brendan Fraser	...	Richard 'Rick' O'Connell
Jet Li	...	Emperor Han
Maria Bello	...	Evelyn O’Connell
John Hannah	...	Jonathan Carnahan
Michelle Yeoh	...	Zi Juan
Luke Ford	...	Alex O'Connell
Isabella Leong	...	Lin
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang	...	General Yang (as Chau Sang Anthony Wong)
Russell Wong	...	General Ming Guo
Liam Cunningham	...	Mad Dog Maguire
David Calder	...	Prof. Roger Wilson
Jessey Meng	...	Choi
Tian Liang	...	Li Zhou
Albert Kwan	...	Chu Wah
Jacky Wu	...	Assassin #1 (as Wu Jing)

Also Known As:

Momie - La tombe de l'empereur dragon, La (Canada: French title)
Mumie - Das Grabmal des Drachenkaisers, Die (Germany)
The Mummy 3 (USA) (informal title)
Untitled Rick O'Connell Adventure (USA) (working title)
Momia - La tumba del emperador dragón, La (Argentina) (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]
A Múmia - O Túmulo do Imperador Dragão (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
Hamunaptra 3 (Japan: English title) (short title) [en]
Momia 3 - La tumba del emperador dragón, La (Peru) [es]
Momie - La tombe de l'empereur dragon, La (France) [fr]
Moumia: I aftokratoria tou Drakou, I (Greece) [el]
Mumia - Grobowiec cesarza smoka (Poland) [pl]
Mumien - Drakkejsarens grav (Sweden) [sv]
Mumien: Drage-kejserens grav (Denmark) [da]
Mumija: Grobnica zmajskog cara (Croatia) [hr]
Mummia: la tomba dell'imperatore dragone, La (Italy) [it]
Mumya - Ejder imparatoru'nun mezari (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Muumia - Draakonkeisri hauakamber (Estonia) [et]
Muumio - Lohikäärmekeisarin hauta (Finland) [fi]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for adventure action and violence.

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

Germany | Canada | USA

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44602) | Malaysia:U | UK:12A | South Korea:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:12A | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Finland:K-13 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:PG | Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/12 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Brazil:12 | Germany:12 | Norway:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Sweden:11 | Australia:M | New Zealand:M | Peru:14

Filming Locations:

Beijing, China

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

Brendan Fraser and John Hannah are the only actors to appear in all three Mummy movies.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Alex and Lin are under the emperor’s wagon during the chase, we see Alex turn himself around, get dragged on the street for a fair distance while Lin tries to reach him to pull him up off the road. As she succeeds we see the back of Alex's shirt is shredded, and a protective pad can be seen through the tears. In the next shot his shirt is whole again, suspenders and all.

Quotes:

Jonathan Carnahan: [during a chase scene] Where's Rick?!
Evelyn O'Connell: Where do you think?!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "HBO First Look: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (#15.12)" (2008)

This Mummy should have stayed in his crypt.

I was able to catch this movie at a test screening in California while i was on vacation and its not much of a film. Its the same story as the previous ones and most of the stuff in the movie were taken from them as well. I love Brendan Fraser but he didn't look happy to be there and with how the story was set up, you can't blame him for looking miserable. He has no chemistry with Maria Bello, who was just awful (She's no Rachel Weisz, that's for damn sure.) and he has even less chemistry with his own son played by Luke Ford, who has the charisma and the charm of a brick, not to mention the fact that he looks just as old as both Fraser and Bello. Fraser has more chemistry with John Hannah, who is a welcome distraction from the lousiness of the film. The movie itself is just a flat headed mess of bad visual effects with no soul. Jet Li lacks the menacing presence of Arnold Vosloo from the previous films but that problem is more than less on the shoulders of the director, who was in my opinion more concern with the style of the film than any substance it could have had and because of that, Jet Li and most of the cast got the short end of the stick and it shows.

They should have ended it with the second film but instead, we have a movie that manages to make even "The Scorpion King" look as good as Iron Man.