The only thing that I would wish different for Mummy III is to have Rachel Weis in the movie instead of Maria Bello. Its not that Bello did a bad job, its just that I like to see the original cast in sequels, but due to the number of films being made these days, sometimes scheduling problems can make that impossible.
Plot: Little Alex is all grown up and striking out on adventures on his own without his parents knowledge. He finds the tomb of a cursed Chinese Emperor, Emperor Han. A small Chinese army wants to bring Emperor Han back to life to settle the chaos in China; only if he is revived he will take over the world. If he is able to return fully to his power he will become a powerful, shape shifting, evil force. So again, its up to the O'Connells to save the world. This time Evie and Rick have the help of their grown up son, Alex, Evie's brother, Jonathon, and a mysterious Chinese girl.
The action and special effects are great. We have everything from chariot chasing car chases (with some fireworks thrown in for fun) to yetis in the Himalayas. You cannot fault this movie for its imagination or its special effects.
The change from Egypt to China was nice and again like with Imhotep the mummy in question was based on historical fact. You may recognize Han and his terra cotta army from the famous archeological find.
I thought the acting was well done. Brandon Fraser is excellent as Rick O'Connell. Rick is a hero, a father and a husband, and has trouble wearing all those hats, which shows in the more tender moments of the movie. Fraser is able to portray these emotions well. Jet Li plays the fierce Emperor Han. He does and excellent job and the fight scenes with Emperor Han are great. Maria Bello does a passable job as Evie O'Connell. I like Rachael Weisz better in the role, but Maria does a nice job and the change in actress does not ruin the movie. John Hannah is funny and useless as always as Jonathon Carnahan-Evie's brother. Luke Ford does a nice job as Alex O' Connell. A young man that is trying to live his life in the shadow of his father's exploits. He is trying to find his own way in life-and discovers he just might need his parents in order to do that. Isabella Leong is Lin our mysterious Chinese girl who becomes Alex's love interest. She is cute and doesn't have many lines and has some passable fight scenes.
Overall, this film entertained me. It was 112 minutes of fun and I wasn't bored once. It was funny in parts, action packed in parts, and emotional in parts. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the other mummy films or anyone who likes a good action film.
