It was a bright idea to move the setting to China and deal with those mummies. There's fast action and colours. The whiteness of the leads is distracting - even the supporting characters, I mean, come on - and there's too many heroes to service. There's Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello (not as good as Rachel W) and their son, Luke Ford. In particular Fraser and Ford are too similar - swashbuckler-y types. Really they should have had Ford be a kidnap victim and have his parents go to rescue him.
If they couldn't have Rachel Weisz back they should have killed her character off screen and had Fraser romance a Chinese lady for fresh romance.
Fun to see Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh just a shame they couldn't have bigger parts. Ditto one feels more could've been done with John Hannah.
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