The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

Director:

Rob Cohen

Writers (WGA):

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

Release Date:

1 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

A New Evil Awakens.

Plot:

In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.

Plot Keywords:

Emperor | Shangri La | Mummy | China | Army

Awards:

1 win & 6 nominations

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:

Die Mumie - Das Grabmal des Drachenkaisers (Germany)
The Mummy 3 (USA) (informal title)
Untitled Rick O'Connell Adventure (USA) (working title)
La momia - La tumba del emperador dragón (Argentina) (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]
La momie - La tombe de l'empereur dragon (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
A Múmia - O Túmulo do Imperador Dragão (Portugal) [pt]
A Múmia - Tumba do Imperador Dragão (Brazil) [pt]
Hamunaptra 3 (Japan: English title) (short title) [en]
I moumia: I aftokratoria tou Drakou (Greece) [el]
La momia 3 - La tumba del emperador dragón (Peru) [es]
La mummia: la tomba dell'imperatore dragone (Italy) [it]
Mumia - Grobowiec cesarza smoka (Poland) [pl]
Mumien - Drakkejsarens grav (Sweden) [sv]
Mumien: Drage-kejserens grav (Denmark) [da]
Mumija: Grobnica zmajskog cara (Croatia) [hr]
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 | USA

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

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 Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Sweden:11 | Australia:M | New Zealand:M | Peru:14 | Denmark:11 | Austria:12 | Taiwan:PG-12

Filming Locations:

Beijing, China

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

The box of explosives read "Voeten Dynamite". This is a nod to P.J. Voeten, the 1st AD on this movie.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The bullet Evelyn pulls from her mouth is compressed, as though it had struck a solid object. A close-range shot would have passed straight through a trout.

Quotes:

[from trailer]
Zijuan: [about Han] When the emperor built the great wall, he buried his enemies underneath it. I will call them to battle once more.

Movie Connections:

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

Soundtrack:

Tribeca Bounce

Mummy 3 is terrible

I was really disappointed by this movie. Seeing as I really enjoyed the first two Mummy movies, I thought that this one would be decent at least. Anyway, let me explain why I thought this movie was terrible. This movie is nothing like previous Mummy films. At least the first Mummy, which was excellent because it combined drama with comedy successfully and had a good storyline. This one does a horrible job of combining drama with comedy. Whenever the Mummy 3 tries to be funny, which is most of the time(there is a bad joke every 30 seconds), it fails miserably, you end up trying to figure out a reason to laugh but can't find one. Another thing was that the story was terrible, it felt boring and that it had no point(at one point in the movie I almost fell asleep from boredom). The action and effects are no good either. The creatures all look fake and are not convincing. The one thing that made me laugh was how fake the effects were. In my opinion, I think that the studio wanted to make big money and decided that a lot of people would go see this movie out of curiostiy based on the success of the first two. Then pulled a story out of nowhere and made this catastrophe. All in all a disappointing movie that is only successful in boring its audience trying to be funny. The only funny thing is how bad this movie is.