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A New Evil Awakes the ‘Mummy’ Franchise Had Its Way with Egyptian History 16 發光的城市 A R O U N D T O W N FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2008 • TAIPEI TIMES A new evil awakes The ‘Mummy’ franchise had its way with Egyptian history. Now it’s moved to China for more of the same BY Ian BartholomeW StAFF REPORTER hen you leave the theater believing that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson put in a W nuanced performance in The Scorpion King, and that Rush Hour 3 is the last word on insightful cross-cultural filmmaking, you realize you THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE have witnessed the blockbuster action film hit a new DRAGON EMPEROR low. You do not go into a film titled The Mummy: playing Tomb of the Dragon Emperor expecting much DIRECTED BY: ROB COHEN Fraser’s better subtlety. But the ham-fisted battering you receive half is a bad piece of from a production team that runs through all the STARRING: BRENDAN FRASER (RICK O’CONNELL), JET miscasting, and places further strain on the film’s genre cliches in such a cynically derivative manner LI (李連杰, AS EMPEROR HAN), MARIA BELLO (EVELYN credibility. is a sad reflection of where a reasonably entertaining O’CONNELL), JOHN HANNAH (JONATHAN CARNAHAN), Obviously, from a marketing perspective, one franchise can be taken in the interests of making MICHELLE YEOH (楊紫瓊, AS ZI JUAN), LUKE FORD (ALEX of the main interests of The Mummy: Tomb of the more money. (The film made US$101.9 million O’CONNELL), ISABELLA LEONG (梁洛施 AS LIN), ANTHONY Dragon Emperor is that it is set “in China,” and that worldwide in its opening weekend last week.) WONG (黃秋生, AS GENERAL YANG) it has several Hong Kong stars. Jet Li (李連杰) is the Having played out ancient Egyptian civilization in most easily recognizable name, and he is clearly two successful features — The Mummy (1999) and RUNNING TIME: 112 MINUTES more than happy to serve as a Chinese Uncle Tom in The Mummy Returns (2001) — and the more clunky this big-budget Hollywood feature. (Li has a record side-project The Scorpion King (2002), the Mummy TAIWAN RELEASE: TODAY of supremely bad Hollywood action flicks to his franchise moves the action to another ancient name, starting with Lethal Weapon 4 back in 1998.) civilization. Playing fast and loose with history and and grimaces with gusto, though without much The only convincing fight sequence was one that legend is not a serious concern for a film of this conviction. Mostly he simply seemed uncertain pitted Li against Yeoh, who is also known for her on- nature, though a Chinese audience familiar with the whether he should be speaking Chinese or English. screen martial arts prowess, while action sequences legends of the First Emperor may find the treatment The same dilemma faced Michelle Yeoh (楊紫瓊), with the whities clearly relied far more on jump cuts somewhat condescending. Clearly the filmmakers who is never at her best in Mandarin, and in her and other effects. did not think this story was interesting enough, and Chinese sequences appeared to be reading from a It would be nice to say something good about felt the need to incorporate gridiron playing yetis script translated from English. Luke Ford’s efforts the younger Chinese actors who appear in this film. and an immortal mother/daughter pair who guard to speak Chinese were commendable, but for local Alas, even Isabella Leong (梁洛施), for all her very the pool of eternal life. audiences at least, this really put the nail in the considerable good looks and potential — she stared Both are, in their different ways, totally coffin of the film’s action/adventure credentials. in Zero Chou’s (周美玲) Spider Lilies (刺青) — is ridiculous. This is largely due to the belief, which the He opened his mouth, and when Chinese emerged, ill-served by this material. Her role as the immortal producers apparently hold, that because the film is a the audience collapsed in laughter. When Brendan daughter who gives up her immortality to save the fantasy, it need not obey even the most rudimentary Fraser manages to convey to a 2,000-year-old world slips away like many of the other half-hearted precepts of narrative logic. The characters don’t “undead” general that he is one of the good guys in references to myth and legend that are incorporated make much sense, and you can see the gags coming Chinese that nobody could possibly recognize as into the film. from a mile away. such, the audience gasped in disbelief. The laughter So it is all the more depressing to hear — in an At a press and merchandising-partners screening it elicited was not complementary. interview with MTV News — that the director of earlier this week, the audience registered more shock The Mummy franchise was always intended to this mess, Rob Cohen, of The Fast and the Furious at the appearance of Anthony Wang (黃秋生) as the have a strong comic theme running through it, but (2001) fame, is already considering, a fourth evil General Yang than at any of the highly elaborate since the first film in 1999, the humor has become installment. Having done China, rumor has it that yet extremely pedestrian action sequences. increasingly labored. In The Mummy: Tomb of Latin America is next. Surely the region has already Wang plays the leader of a paramilitary force in the Dragon Emperor, Brendan Fraser’s efforts to had more than its fair share after Mayan, Nazca and the deserts of central China who for reasons that play a role of a father unable to express his love other South American cultures were rolled together are never explained — though he expresses some for his son pulls the comedy rug right out from in the interests of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom jarringly nationalistic sentiments — wants to serve under his feet, and he is left mugging ineffectually of the Crystal Skull earlier this year. under the First Emperor and make China great for the camera. Even the comic banter of John again. His backstory is never established, which Hannah, who was so important in keeping the With its mangling of Mandarin and Chinese legends, The Mummy: makes him a rather uninteresting villain. Still, as a first Mummy light and frothy, has lost conviction. Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is bound to get plenty of unsympathetic veteran of the Hong Kong movie scene, he scowls The changeover from Rachel Weisz to Maria Bello laughs in Taiwan’s movie theaters. PHOTOS COURTESY OF UIP My best friend’s Scottish wedding is a big fat mess ‘Made of Honor’ has all the elements of a successful summer romantic comedy. But for some viewers, that might not be nearly enough BY STEPHEN HOLDEN snaps: “I don’t do back-to-backs. he should keep his mouth shut Monaghan is an endearing NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, NEW YORK Two nights in a row; I don’t do and strategize. screen presence, but her character The romantic comedy Made of that.” He also lives by the 24-hour When Hannah asks him to be has no personality. The movie Honor adds tart satirical flavors rule: Never call a date until a full maid of honor at her wedding in can’t begin to explain the unlikely to a cotton-candy formula without day has passed. MADE OF HONOR one of Colin’s several castles (his friendship of Tom and Hannah, sabotaging the sugar rush. Directed The apple doesn’t fall far family has one for each season), for there is no rhyme or reason by Paul Weiland (City Slickers II), from the tree, as they say. Tom’s DIRECTED BY: PAUL WEILAND Tom agrees in the hope that he to it. If she were as bright as she it begins on a nasty note when Tom wealthy father (Sydney Pollack) can demonstrate how much he is supposed to be, she wouldn’t (Patrick Dempsey), the putative Mr has been married and divorced STARRING: PATRICK DEmpSEY loves her and win her back. That tolerate his churlish treatment Right in this taming-of-the-rogue so many times that he can’t (TOM), MICHELLE MONAGHAN many assume his role means of other women. But she doesn’t fable, is introduced as a college recall whether his new wife is (HANNAH), KEVIN MCKIDD (COLIN), Tom must be gay makes for some seem to notice. KATHLEEN QUINLAN (JOAN), SYDNEY boy wearing a hideous Bill Clinton his sixth or his seventh. He is wan humor. Dempsey, who at 42 is too POLLACK (ThOMAS SR) mask and drunkenly bellowing shown dressed up and heading Made of Honor scrambles the old for his role, does his best to for his Monica at a Halloween toward the altar while frantically RUNNING TIME: 101 MINUTES plotlines of My Best Friend’s infuse Tom with some boyish bacchanal. negotiating a pre-nup by cell Wedding and Sweet Home charm. Monaghan’s aura of The movie then skips ahead 10 phone with his bride-to-be, who TAIWAN RELEASE: TODAY Alabama and changes the locales. fundamental niceness is the years to discover this obnoxious circles the block in a limousine It has gorgeous picture-postcard main reason that Made of Honor Lothario living high in New with her lawyer. Like father, like son: Sydney Pollack, right, and Patrick Dempsey play inveterate Lotharios handsome aristocrat with a views of Manhattan and the retains enough sweetness to brogue who galloped to her York City off the millions he has The only sign that Tom has in Made of Honor. PHOTO: REUTERS Scottish countryside. It also ups satisfy the cotton-candy addicts.
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