Under rated fun movie, reminds me of original Mummy

Agreed!! It's really a lot better than a lot of people say. I quite enjoyed it! There were so many disappointing movies this year. This surprised me for the better!!

When you say the original Mummy, I think of Boris Karloff. That should give you a hint about my age lol.

This is the type of movie I might have liked when I was a kid. As it is, not so much. It was interesting that Jamie Lannister from Game of Thrones was in it, and the two pretty girls were a treat. Other than that, I thought it was fairly weak.

I think this film is a blast....Will be a basic cable classic.

I feel that some of the music, especially in the opening was from Brenden Fraser's Mummy,, but there was some melodramatic performances and bad CGI, but it was an interesting concept, just executed poorly, and had a lot of story lines that were really unnecessary

"Fun movie"

I will definitely agree that this was a fun movie, but that doesn't make it a good one. I had tremendous fun watching The Room, but I'd never argue that the film was even passable. The Room is fun because it's so technically flawed in so many ways, and it's obviously made with love. I didn't quite feel the "love" in Gods of Egypt, but based on Proyas' reaction to negative criticism, I'd say the guy really poured his heart into this film.

Regardless, it's still an incredibly flawed film. The CG looks like PS2-era cutscenes, the action scenes are edited like a film student trying to emulate 300, the acting is atrocious (and I get the impression that Butler was there for a paycheck and nothing more), the script is a huge mess full of stilted dialog and the worst kind of action movie cheese, and the film does a horrible job of explaining its own premise and building its world. It is not a good movie. At all.

What makes it so watchable is just how much of a train wreck it is, but when it comes to my own personal rage about the film's incompetence, it lies with the budget. All of that money poured into something so piss-poor, underutilized actors, etc. I really hope this shuts down Proyas' career, because when we overfund trash like this, it hurts the entire industry.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law!

If you really compare this pile of witless garbage to the "original" The Mummy (FYI, the original The Mummy came out in 1932), then you don't know squad about movie making, scripts, acting et al. The Brendan Fraser Mummy has tons of INTENTIONAL humor, this filth only UNINTENIONAL humor. Whereas the Fraser film is a good-natured boys' own adventure with wit and style, GoE is just a pile of half assed pop mythology mixed with a trite teeny romance, all dressed in 7th class CGI and edited with a chainsaw.

GoE is the worst crap imaginable.

That's it. That's what I thought having just watched it. It also reminded me a lot of Stephen Sommers "Van Helsing" another movie that gets a lot of grief for nothing. It also had some far stronger female characters to look up to more than Blunder Woman. Also how can you fault it when Jaime Lannister and Elektra Nachios.