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Best movie of this year hands down!

You won't be disappointed!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Excellent adaptation.

This fourth and final movie in the original "The Mummy" franchise picks up from where the last one ended but despite being made the very same year has recast our leading lady which is a damn shame.It tells the story of our mummy once against being brought back to seek out his reincarnated lost love. This time however after the events of the last film she is suffering from amnesia and every one in her life is in terrible danger.Oddly the quality of this franchise in regards to cinematography has been inconsistent and this is one of the worst. Combine that with some hammy performances and yet again the movie cannot rise above being distinctly average stuff.Despite all this the entire franchise has had a certain charm, but I think 4 movies were sufficient especially considering how similiar they all are.A fitting finale.The Good:Carries on the story nicelyThe Bad:Timelines of the series make no senseCinematography has dippedRecastingMuch of the plot is confusingThings I Learnt From This Movie:Everyone who wears a Fez is evilAmnesiacs are a great source of free labourI can't take a character seriously if they're wearing a safari hat!

I keep reading complaints how the shift from New England to Louisiana is unexplained. It isn't. In the opening bits where the archaeologist talks with the authorities he tells how the priests moved the mummy to Louisiana 25 years ago. (It was perhaps the synopsis of an unfilmed sequel.) Anyhow the dialogue fully explains the shift in location and one needs only to listen to find out. Oh and Virginia Christine is absolutely gorgeous. I only wish they had given her more screen time.Also, Classicsoncall in his review says "We're signaled to the emergence of the Kharis legend by the first appearance of a dead body, but has anyone noticed that the laborer Antoine died with a knife in his back? Kharis always did his dirty work with his left hand, leaving bandage mold behind on the neck of his victims." This too is inaccurate. It was the priest's assistant who killed Antoine after they dug Kharis up. Again it's clearly stated in the dialogue. It's fine and dandy to criticize a movie for its shortcomings but the criticisms should be accurate. Stuff like that can turn off a potential viewer. If you're not going to pay attention to the dialogue then you really have no business submitting an inaccurate review.

Of the Universal Kharis Mummy films, the only one for me that came close to good was The Mummy's Hand, though that also had its uneven spots. The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse are watchable at least but also heavily flawed and uninspired, of which The Mummy's Curse fares the worst.The Mummy's Curse highlight is, agreed, the resurrection of Princess Ananka. It is a splendid, atmospheric scene that provides goose-bumps, and along with the ending of Ghost is the best scene of all the Universal Kharis Mummy films. It is sadly though the only great scene in the film, the only one to show any sense of care or directorial flair. Anne Codee makes a memorable appearance, and her Hey You number provided the film with a brief flicker of charm that the rest of the film was sorely lacking in. Of the cast(of which most of the cast were not very good), Virginia Christine comes out on top, she has an alluring appearance, and as well as making one's hairs stand up on their neck she is poignant too. Martin Kosleck is fun and menacing in his role, while Holmes Herbert is appropriately silky voiced. The sets are very atmospheric and there is some nice shadowy lighting, the camera work is the resurrection is most effective. And there is one amusing line, Goobie's 'The devil's alive and he's dancing with the mummy'.Lon Chaney Jnr sadly completely goes through the motions here, he at least had some intimidating moments in Tomb and Ghost but here it seemed as if he didn't care. He is disadvantaged by that Kharis here has very little screen time and whenever he does appear he has nothing to do, nothing that wasn't done before in the previous Kharis films anyhow. Peter Coe is also by far the worst high priest of all four films put together, he brings very little authority or sense of threat to the role and instead he's wooden. Napoleon Simpson provides some mostly unfunny and often embarrassing comic relief(apart from that one line) as the film's most stereotypical character, in a film where all the characters are stock and uncompelling, and Dennis Moore and Kay Harding, while an improvement on the leads from Ghost, are a little dull. The script on the most part is as lumbering as Kharis himself and all the humour falls flat. As with the previous three Kharis films the romance elements don't come off strongly either, feeling saccharine and underdeveloped.Princess Ananka's resurrection sequence and the Hey You number aside, The Mummy's Curse is slow-moving and dull with a lot of the storytelling feeling like an even blander retread of Ghost, the attacks and chases being especially repetitive. Unlike the previous three films, there is very little attempt at trying to do something different to before. The previous three films for all their problems had some campy fun and a little suspenseful atmosphere, plus Kharis also showed signs of being intimidating before, but again with the resurrection scene aside none of those can be found in Curse. The music doesn't sound bad at all by itself, it sounds quite haunting, but is very stock and doesn't always fit, a couple of placements sounded random. While the production values have their moments, some close-ups of Kharis don't look particularly good and the editing is shoddy, it was made virtually straight after Ghost(which was also made quickly, and looked it) and it really does show.In conclusion, the last of the Universal Kharis Mummy films and sadly it is also the weakest. Pretty weak a lot of the time, but thanks to the song, that one great sequence and a few performances it's watchable. 4/10 Bethany Cox

***SPOILERS*** Long awaited squeal to the film "The Mummy's Ghost" that was released some six months later has the Mummy Prince Kharis, Lon Chaney Jr, back from the dead looking for his love the beautiful Princess Ananka, Virginia Christine, who he's been estranged from for some 3,000 years! Now with the help of modern Egyptian high priest, masquerading around town as an archaeologist, Dr. Llzor Zandaad, Peter Coe, and his loyal henchman Reheb, Martin Kosleck, Kharis is brought back to life with the fluid of the ancient Egyptian Tana Leaves so he can be reunited with Princess Ananka and finally become Mr & Mrs Mummy.It's been some 20 years since Kharis and the Princess were swallowed up by the Louisiana swamps as they were chased by any angry mob of local Cajuns who just had about enough of them and, on Kharis's part, their murderous antics. Now brought back to life Kharis is, with Dr. Llzor's help, more then ever determined to get his Princess back and together with her get on the first boat back to Cairo Egypt even if it kills him, and anyone who dares to stands in his way, to do it!Incredibly slow moving with his body bandaged up from head to toe it's amazing that Kharis could catch anyone in the movie even if they were just standing still! In fact Kharis' first victim Michael, William Farnm, the self-appointed caretaker of the monastery that Kharis, with the help of Dr. Llzor & Reheb, made his home just stood there with him not as much as moving a muscle until Kharis got his hands on him! As Kharis was soon to find out that as much as he wanted Princess Ananka she seemed totally uninterested in him. Having like Khris come back from the dead the Princess got the hang of modern living, with all its conveniences, and had no interest of going back to jolly old Egypt to spent the rest of eternity with Kharis sealed up in an air-tight ancient Egyptian burial chamber!***SPOILER*** It was the sneaky and sex crazed Reheb in him wanting to get it on with Dr. James Halsey's, Dennis Moore, pretty assistant Betty Walsh (Kay Harding), who both discovered the amnesic Princess Anana in the Louisiana swamps, that in the end spoiled everything! Not being able to control his overactive libido Reheb made a mess of everything in defiling, by his uncontrollable lust, the laws of Amon-Ra the ancient Egyptian God and was made to pay the consequences for doing that. But not until Reheb finished off his "Master" Dr. Llzor and destroyed the Tana Leaves that kept Khris alive. Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore in Rebeb making a monkey out of him Khrais went totally berserk not only doing Rebeb in but himself as well!P.S In the flashbacks in the movie Khris is played by the legendary Boris Karloff in clips from Karloff's original 1932 Mummy classic aptly titled "The Mummy".