Mumien

The Mummy

...old school-knytnävsslagssmål och kravlös matinéunderhållning så det räcker och blir över.

Set in 1920s Egypt, the film stars Brendan Fraser, who makes for an effective enough hero, as a Foreign Legion soldier-turned-explorer in search of a lost, treasure-laden city of the dead.

....no one handles this kind of stuff with more aplomb than Fraser. Handsome in a funny way, swaggering in a goofy way, Fraser gooses the movie with his deft comic timing.

...is actually a lot of fun, its blend of low-rent Indiana Jones-style antics, impressive special effects and inevitably chaste romance scoring high in the risible escapist nonsense department.

There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it.