Day of the Mummy
Welcome to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. A place steeped in history and legend; Gods and spiritual guides; untold wealth – and the bone-cracking, blood-spilling guardians of its riches. Jack Wells has arrived in Egypt in search of the famous diamond known as The Codex Stone. His journey leads him to the tomb of the cursed King Neferu, cursed not by name but by nature. With his centuries-old slumber disturbed by timeless human greed, the King rises from the dead with a blood-lust that cannot be quenched and a raging fury that will shred flesh from bone, bringing terrible and tormented death to all who dare witness the Day of the Mummy.
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- Cast:
- Danny Glover , William McNamara , Philip Marlatt , Brandon deSpain
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Wonderful Movie
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
I bought this movie, for $10 at walmart. ... Why did i do that? i Don't know!! I through hey the back cover looked similar to The Mummy.. I hate being mislead.HONIEST TRAILER! - Welcome to a movie that keeps you locked in and can't escape that vicious camera working of movements that make you nausous and sick to your stomach, comes a movie that just does just that! Meet a man i cant remember team up with others i cant remember hired by the only great actor that people forgot about Danny Glover. As the Forgottan man is hired to go to a tomb or so to find a thing for Glover, he is meet up with some other people mentioned earlier.The Desert police stop them and then find out they can be there.. Then with the worlds most sick to your stomach camera movements you start to get sick and have to fast forward and t hen when you do see the mummy It scares you so much that you turn the movie off and sell it with other movies at Mega Replay for $13 dollars making a 10 dollar movie worth barely anything with others you sold with it. THE DAY OF THE MUMMY WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS IN VOMITING YOUR LUNGs out prepare for a nightmare of bad camera movments from the people who similar ways did CLoverfield.. COmes a sick to your stomach movie called Day of the Mummy .. Beware ......
Only one Mummy movie, in my opinion, is worse and that's The Mummy Resurrected, which had eerily similar problems to the ones that this had. Day of the Mummy does have one redeeming quality(whereas The Mummy Resurrected had none) and that's the location of the inside of the Mummy's tomb, suitably claustrophobic and effectively creepy. In fact the locations in general are not too bad. But it was very difficult to enjoy them because the movie had such a dreary look and the way Day of the Mummy was shot was highly suggestive someone having the complete inability to keep a camera/video-recorder straight.Day of the Mummy does use the found footage-like/picture-in-picture idea. This could have worked and could have potentially been creative, but it is way over-used and often at points where it was not needed. To say it was distracting was an understatement, so much so that a lot of the time it was used it took me right out of the movie. The script is incredibly weak, some of it sounds like it was improvised on the spot but most of it sounds like the actors only received the dialogue just minutes before and were reading from cue cards, hence why it was acted out in such an uninvolved and awkward manner. As for the story, there are glimpses of one but there is strong emphasis on the glimpses, what there is of story is painfully predictable, interminably slow in pace and lacking in everything you'd expect for a horror to work(suspense, tension, horror, fun, scares, thrills etc.).The characters are walking clichés ridden to death, and they are not developed or interesting at all so it's impossible to root for them. To make things worse the acting is awful from actors who clearly did not want to be there in the first place, even from Danny Glover who squints and winces his way through his screen time giving the impression of why did I ever agree to do this. However that he is actually the best actor in the movie is testament to how bad the acting is, William McNamara is a long way from a dashing hero and actually looks bored out of his skull, even the most bored-sounding answering machine has more energy than him. Don't expect the Mummy/monster to save the movie, it doesn't look too bad but it's under-utilised, it acts intoxicated rather than imposing so it doesn't come across as scary at all and it's hard to shake off the feeling of that it's a man in a costume. Apparently the director has prior experience, but considering the ineptness of the direction here that's hard to believe.In conclusion, awful movie in every way apart from the tomb location. Maybe see it to see for yourself how Glover fares here and how his career has gone down the toilet, otherwise while not quite as abysmal as The Mummy Resurrected Day of the Mummy should have stayed buried. 1/10 Bethany Cox
For goodness sake, do yourself a favor and close your eyes for 80 minutes instead of watching this, you will be more entertained.After having sat through 80 minutes of the worst movie I have ever seen, I spent the next almost 4 hours with self torture techniques trying to remove any recollection of having watched it.I must admit it was only because Danny Glover was cast I watched it, but never has he acted so poorly. I have been a long time fan of his, but how he was directed to be so bad, I will now question any future movies he is in.The directing was pathetic. I thought this was his first, so willing to cut some slack, but nope, he has done this before. One thing for sure he will never see red carpet in his life.All in all this movie might have been made on a McDonalds meal budget, but directing could have made this acceptable.Johnny Tabor failed. He is now Johnny Ta-boring..........
Not sure why this film has undergone such bad reviews, it's obviously a cheesy horror film and the title says it all. The Siskel and Eberts of the world always seem to voice their poor opinions. On to the film, I have a feeling this film was shot on a very small budget, not sure how they squeezed in Danny Glover but something tells me that someone pulled some strings for that one. It's cheesy people, not gonna lie, but if you're looking for a few laughs like the young pimply kid you once were then I think its a good fit for you. People are too serious nowadays that they've lost their sense of humor, too busy on their phones and drinking their lattes and pretending to be important that they forget to be a kid again. I rather enjoyed the film, it was a bit slow at times and wish the Mummy had been in it longer, but it was better than a lot of the other films I've seen, considering the film is shot from a POV (not my favorite) the scenery is great feels like Egypt and has a little modern edge to it. In my humble, honest opinion it's worth a watch.