The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor: Deusdaecon Reviews

[@leekalba]

Props to that stunt woman at 16:19, jumping off a truck, onto pavement, in an evening dress and thigh highs. That looks painful.

[@MsKekeChannel]

To reiterate what I said before, on its own this could have been a good B-movie but it has no business calling itself a sequel to the Mummy franchise just because some of the original actors returned. And I freaking love Jet Li & Michelle Yeoh but they deserve better. They should have kept the action in Egypt. That way we would have a proper ending to a pretty solid trilogy. Maybe a threat could have come along more dangerous than Imhotep and the O'Connell family would have no choice but to resurrect him again to help them battle said threat. That would have been interesting.

[@deusdeaconReviews]

+MsKekeChannel That would honestly be an interesting twist I like that idea.

[@TevyaSmolka]

huh that idea actually sounds pretty cool

[@loki_l_1380]

Did the writers for Injustice 2 fucking read this comment or something?!? XDXD

[@Quandry1]

Considering the Egyptians have a Genocidal god that can only be sated by drinking blood. There is plenty of room for such things. I'm sure we could probably easily think of half a dozen kickoff's to such stories very easily.

[@dodavis419]

Or they could have went to Peru like Jonathan said in the 2nd movie, instead of China.

[@joecoates0]

What I don't get is why Alex is all of a sudden American in this movie, even though he was English in the last movie and he had been brought up in England, unless I missed something in the movie. I dunno, I was just bored shitless by this movie

[@tristanhartup4936]

That was something that bothered me too when I first saw this movie.

[@TheBeird]

No offence to Maria Bello, but she really highlights just how big a part of the first movie's appeal Rachel Weiz was.

[@adampoll4977]

And STILL better than the Tom Cruise film...

[@daimonatkins3046]

Now that’s saying something

[@reptile1677]

I dont know i think theyre both pretty shitty

[@BricklyDragon]

@@reptile1677 This movie is better because the cgi is actualy better than the tomb cruise movie

[@CastOfCharacters13]

Yes I agree and i enjoyed the film

[@dah3071]

and this film completely missed the fact that Imhotep wasn't really a purely evil man for the sake of being evil, he was consumed by his love for someone who was forbidden and did terrible things to claim that love, hell im pretty sure conquering the world in the second film was an after thought, the dragon emperor could have easily been a well meaning leader who slowly drowned in power and strength as he desired to protect his people for eternity, becoming a tyrant in the process, you know a somewhat relatable villain

[@RoyStantz]

As we all know, long after this stinker hit theaters, Universal decided to reboot the Mummy franchise, which has resulted in the 2017 Mummy film starring Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe. Also, there's an easy parallel between this film and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The two are pretty similar in some respects, such as the hero handing over the reins to a wayward grown-up son.

[@DLNOT]

This movie was clearly made to cash in on the Beijing Olympics in 2008

[@jenniferloving9054]

Makes sense!

[@wugglesx]

very possible. if watched in order this one would be the most confusing and nonsensical . but if you think about them making it to use the mummy brand and pull in money from china its still not grand but is reasonable from a "money" standpoint... kinda glad i never saw this one lol

[@TheSuperQuail]

"The dreaded Willy Wonka curse" XD

[@YoungcityMusic]

didnt alex have a english accient in the second movie

[@emilykruger2844]

Youngcity Music He did

[@o0Avalon0o]

Thank you for putting the time into creating that delightful montage.

[@Revenant1128]

Actually the term of "Mummy" can also be used to described dried out corpes that still features some still intact body qualities. So yeah, the title "The Mummy" could still be used although the movie content not as good as the first two films. Sorry for my bad english.

[@alwaysxnever]

I like Maria Bella, but she isn't Evie.

[@Tom_Samad]

So do i, but i believe her last name is "Bello".

[@konstance13]

That moment they bring yetis into the movie... wut

[@91lifetime23]

Man i hated this movie so much, i was a huge The Mummy fan back in the day if there was such a thing as that, and when I watched this movie on theater i had never left the cinema so disappointed and mad, first i hated the fact the Stephen Sommers was not directing it then Evy was changed and then there was no mummy WTF!! I just wanted it to end from the beginning

[@ryans413]

91lifetime23 yea the mother character being changed really threw it off for me

[@Revenant1128]

Yeah I prefer if the movie just titled 'Tomb of Dragon Emperor', with different leading roles with O'Connel and Eve just a supporting role (wrong place, wrong time). Or its just me...

[@t.h.2906]

I hope my binge of Deusdaecon's videos never ends

[@Ocrilat]

Did anyone else notice that the green twin-engined British plane (Beaufighter?) transmogrifies into what looks like a silver P-40 at 27:16? What the hell was that about?

[@elimgarak4667]

I actually knew a doctor who lived in my hometown who discovered/studied mummies in Peru. And he would have little showcase of his photos and discussions of them when I was a kid. If the "filmmakers" were actually thinking, it'd been kind of cool to see what they might have done with that route.

[@1000Pigs]

"Not Evie" and the mummy kill count, too funny! Guess this answers my question from the last video. What dreck.

[@phantomspydj]

Actually Brendan Fraiser has stated he's interested in doing a 4th Mummy Movie. Maybe to restart his movie career who knows. Also you should review the Tom Cruise Mummy film.

[@ab5olut3zero95]

Rebooting the original Brendan Fraser Mummy film with Fraser could be a decent start if Universal wanted a good jumping off point for the Dark Universe.

[@MrShoebox21]

So Jet Li has magic shouting powers...and he's called the Dragon Emperor...Alls I'm saying is that he's a bit Fus-Ro-Dah-ish, but not in a cool way.

[@leejones8582]

Considering this is set 20 years later they could have aged up Rick and Evie

[@tristanhartup4936]

Yeah, 13 years to be precise

[@o0Avalon0o]

I'm so glad I didn't see this movie in theatres. They destroyed the characters beyond repair.

[@ryano6094]

When watching this movie in theatres, which I recall being almost empty on a Tuesday, every time Maria Bello's Evie was bringing up events from the last two films or talking about family, I couldn't help but picture Rachel Weisz every single time, mainly cause Bello was not convincing me that she is Evie. Problem is I don't think recasting would work very well after the previous actor already played the character for two movies. It just wouldn't be convincing afterwards. Only exception is Dumbledore in Harry Potter, but that's mostly cause the second actor played the character longer. I also heard that the filmmakers were advised to change the character after Weisz refused to come back. But the studios were too lazy to do a rewrite. :/

[@Ash-op2ql]

How do you always know so much history that all these movies seem to mess up? It's cool that you know so much and it adds a lot to your reviews.

[@foreverdead1248]

He knows how to do twenty minutes of research. Something many of these movies couldn't spend 5 minutes on

[@orni7770]

bruh he called the sarcophagus the tomb

[@munstrumridcully]

@27:50 - Obviously, The Emperor was playing with his balls to summon Shenron, the Eternal Dragon. Duh. ;)

[@Shiirow]

Crouching Tiger, Dead Career

[@kealebogamolo6685]

What's up with these curses that give the bad guys near omnipotence?

[@jenniferloving9054]

ikr

[@KiramidHead]

So Jet Li was really King Ghidorah all along? XD And then he turns into one of the things from Where the Wild Things Are... yeah, what the fuck? Yeah, I've seen the movie twice and I have no idea what the hell they were thinking.

[@AlexAceves1994]

That's what I thought!

[@philiptonymcgrawjrthephilm1570]

at 10:46 Alex said: "no offense mom but we haven't been a family in a long time" and alex walks away in snger

[@sebastianemond5313]

"🤨Hey, don't turn your back on me. 😠Alex!"

[@philiptonymcgrawjrthephilm1570]

​@@sebastianemond5313 Rick leave Alex alone until he feels better

[@Magic_Tricks-p8d]

It's called The Mummy as they just wanted to establish that it's a sequel in the same universe.

[@harmonlanager2670]

I remember hearing somewhere that forced labor was used to build the Great Wall. Although, I can't be sure.

[@SuperSwordman1]

Harmon Lanager I believe it. Of course I also don't give a shit. Ancient times, everything was slave labor. Although the bodies in foundation, no matter where it supposedly is, is total BS. Would make the foundation weak

[@goodlookingcorpse]

The five spheres might represent the five classical Chinese elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water.

[@Magic_Tricks-p8d]

Jet Li enters the fountain of youth to become... King Ghidorah...? I think Toho needs to sue somebody.

[@hockeysong]

i think the reason why Johnathan moved to china was because he thought mummies were only found in Egypt and not in China and other countries that have mummies

[@mothmanofaustraliaradio8888]

My mum actually knew the actor playing older Alex, he worked with his mum at the pub my mum worked at we all so proud he got into acting

[@sandernielsen8018]

And for the record chinese dragons doesn't breed fire or have more then 1 head, but what the hell it's Hollywood.

[@starkilr101]

22:15 Will admit that a grenade attached to dynamite is damn cool

[@AlexAceves1994]

Call me immature, but the "balls" joke honestly cracked me up for a variety of reasons.

[@toffeefeathers]

I completely forgot this movie existed but I remember watching it a really long time ago

[@rosangelamaria9386]

The balls represents the elements metal wood water fire earth

[@frankenoise]

"The film summed up in one image... a vomiting yak."😆

[@leiaelkins9751]

I actually don't mind this movie, but it is definitely not a Mummy movie. This could have maybe worked if they made kind of an anthology out of this, which they kind of hinted at with the Peru thing at the end, but never happened. Therefore, this doesn't make sense. I actually didn't realize that the Wall wasn't built yet, so that's a big strike against it. I do believe that it was potentially okay, but without the chemistry that Rachel Weiss and Brendan Fraser had, it can't keep it together. I really like Lin, also. She's kind of cool.

[@rudolpholaspari6039]

the chinese DID put people in the wall who died while working! and Grizzley Adams did have a beard

[@ryano6094]

I wonder how during the final battle Rick was not only able to hold his own but overpower the immortal, superpowered and probably better skilled Emperor with just a fist fight. Sure, Rick was able to briefly fight off Imhotep in the second film, but Imhotep lost his immortality and powers at the time. The Emperor still had it all, so WTF?

[@ryanelliott71698]

Um isn’t this movie taking place when China was in a civil war?

[@Aleesb]

Not going to make a big deal about the movie as it's super old and I haven't actually seen it. But China should be absolutely devastated by 1946. It's had almost 30 constant years of non-stop civil wars and the Japanese invasion, which was so destructive that the Nationalist Government literally abandoned Nanking and moved to Chengdu, Sichuan, almost as far back as Tibet is.

[@bartistclord1916]

"It's super old" How old are you ? Five ? in a couple years YOU TOO will be "super old". 9 years old is what you consider to be "super old". (2008 to 2017) I do NOT want to know how old you are. It would be nice if you got some perspective and realize that 9 years is only "super old" for milk, a coupon, a housefly, or a hamster. "super old" movies have no voice and no color.

[@shallendor]

Those "balls" look like they are some kind of elemental spheres. Although the 5th element has changed from different cultures, many asian cultures believe in 5 elements instead of the western 4.

[@SuperSwordman1]

shallendor wood, metal, water, fire, and earth right?

[@shallendor]

the standard 4 are Earth, Fire, Water and Air. I have seen the 5th as Wood, Metal or Void, depending on where it was.

[@SuperSwordman1]

@@shallendor rewatching the review, sure you're right on them being element balls. Looks like Fire, Earth, Ice (probably water), and wood.

[@samdurfee6093]

I have fond memories of the first 2 Mummy movies, how the first one gave me nightmares, and the second was so kick ass. I remember hating this movie.

[@KieranVFX]

Hey I stumbled across your channel, love your reviews :D Really informative and well put together! I'm just curious as to what film is the clip at around 15:48 from? It's where a girl says "That's convenient". Cheers ^^

[@deusdeaconReviews]

That clip is from the the ginger snaps sequel, ginger snaps unleashed which i also reviewed

[@KieranVFX]

Thanks! I might check it out (:

[@oddeyes9413]

I'd love to see you review The Last Airbender.

[@sebastianemond5313]

30:22 - 30:28 Rob Cohen: "But Michael Bay said that's what would make my Fast and Furious movies so popular!"

[@christopherlambert5264]

I know I saw this movie in the theater. I know I even had the DVD. I still didn't remember a single part of this movie other than the recasting of Eve.

[@Luciffrit]

I saw this with a free movie ticket and fell asleep about a third way in to be woken up by an usher when the movie was over.

[@allidoiscomment7141]

Couple of errors I want to point out: 1. Keeping the Mongol hordes out was the excuse used to start construction of the wall, but it’s actual purpose was to serve as a prison camp for anyone the emperor hated. 2. Since the Great Wall of China was a used as a prison camp, it was built using slave labor in the form of unpaid prisoners. 3. Laborers who had died during the wall’s construction were often buried in it. This likely included the foundation.

[@Thirtys_]

I actually liked this movie i didnt hate it , the character switch up made me upset a lil bit but it was okay .

[@jongroskin729]

I wouldn't be surprised to discover that the original script had nothing to do with China at all. My guess is that, in order to raise the budget on a film that was undoubtedly going to be garbage, the studio had to pander to Chinese investors and change the script to include Chinese elements like so many other modern films do.

[@sebastianemond5313]

12:25 - 12:39 If I could quote Jonathan: "Oh please!"

[@Barronvoncrash]

4:49 why wouldn't you bring the guns.

[@muthesquirrel]

So he gets a dagger and is turned into a dragon... Tomb Raider 2?

[@Revenant1128]

If... just if...the general managed to pour the liquid on the decoy...

[@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets]

I would love to see the decoy actually work in one of these movies for once.

[@nickvance7453]

just pointing out the "ancient Chinese" emperor was speaking modern chinese

[@adventurewitheve8606]

I pretend this part does not exist.

[@deusdeaconReviews]

thats probably for the best.

[@SuperSwordman1]

Same here. And based on the day, sometimes the sequel

[@wizgi7201]

i didnt mind the yetis, i think it helped the movie with the supernatural stuff

[@asher9152]

great wall of china yup built with slaves. I mean he was the first Emperor. And under the Feudal system he replaced once he united china the de-conscripted peasants were effectively slaves. Because what is a peasant to a emperor? a slave called by any name is still a slave regardless of the political system. Also kinda creepy how they just switched his promiscuous mother with the witch. But then again pyramids were wrong in the original movie and the cgi so bad in the second who's not to say this whole Mummy series wasn't just a troll, so....

[@lazarus30001]

sense you are answering questions, tell me about the dragon tattoo on your hand.

[@judgebeard8772]

The "Jet Li balls" are the representation of 5 elements

[@jaycubauch3927]

So, no idea what he was doing, or why it was in this movie. But from what I could see the balls looked kind of like they were supposed to be the five elements of pagan magic (fire, water, air, earth, and spirit).

[@RedNinja115]

Also, dont know if you know this, but the sequel to this was planned to be Mayan based and set in Peru I believe, cuz they thought they were gonna get a sequel to this

[@martianleader1]

Do you have clips from this movie? i like the scene of Johnathan on fire and the gang getting out of the burnt car and talking at Imhoteps bar. Seems the scenes are cut everywhere else. Dont call it a clip if you are cutting stuff.

[@bartistclord1916]

Clip is a term for cutting a small piece off. Please read a dictionary before you demand people redefine words around your preferences. in fact "call it a clip if you are cutting stuff." That is what a CLIP is.

[@ivantrajkovski5055]

avatar the last airbender had the bones and did iit correctly

[@DarkLordJustin]

O'Connell killed 45 mummy's including imhotep a scorpion king and one clay Chinese emperor

[@wugglesx]

i like to think o'connor is being modest with the 2 mummies part. like he only counts super mummy pharaohs

[@deusdeaconReviews]

well, like I showed even that is completely inaccurate

[@troin3925]

I haven't seen Yetis _this_ out of place since Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2!

[@markevayne]

It's funny how this one literally rehashes shot-for-shot scenes from various Indiana jones movies, I had the motivation recently to revist all these films which led me on to watching all the scorpion king movies, maybe I've seen too many SK movies but at one point I thought billy zane should of been nominated for an academy award

[@Dovahkovu]

Really, I feel like this movie might've worked if instead of making it part of the Mummy franchise, it was its own thing. As well as that, maybe making the Witch and her daughter the leads of this movie would make it better as well... but who am I kidding. This was just a cash grab of a movie anyways.

[@marky437]

Don't know why they simple said the main character has split and divorced his wife and she had left him and gone else where instead of doing a Dr Who regeneration stunt lol.......Oh my the 2nd film had a Kenny this one has the bargin bin King Ghidorah hahahahaha

[@rlucas96]

You should get together with Decker Shado and do a review!

[@munstrumridcully]

"My heart is pure...pure _evil_ !"

[@pathofdragonsradio]

I love the fact that the filmmakers accidentally admitted they knew nothing about Chinese history or folklore to the point of borderline racism when they stated that the CHINESE Emperor's "Ogre" form is based on the Oni and his "Dragon" form is based on King Ghidorah, creatures from JAPAN. Whoops! 🤣

[@mikaelafox6106]

Highly underrated review. 👍👍

[@MrShoebox21]

Couple of thoughts: 1. The General looks pretty good for a guy who was drawn and quartered by horses. 2. Even if Jet Li's army DOES get past the wall of China, he's still going to have a bitch of a time taking over the world because....you know, it's post WWII. They have bombs and tanks and planes and stuff.

[@MythmasterFunky]

They litterly said in the film that mortal weapons won't have effect. You know like, guns, tanks, and planes

[@doubledamn2599]

What is the 'That's convenient' clip from?

[@deusdeaconReviews]

ginger snaps unleashed, Its one of my earlier review videos

[@Christmasminions]

OMG so much love for the Tijuana Brass.

[@dejaporter7338]

The mummy counting was hilarious😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@hockeysong]

also for the mummy count i think alex was counting the ones that had super powers

[@deusdeaconReviews]

No he was referring to Imhotep which as you saw, even if you ignore the many others is still incorrect,

[@hockeysong]

thats what i just said.....

[@deusdeaconReviews]

My apologies for the misunderstanding, Its just the way your comment was phrased made it sound like you were talking about more then one character.

[@hockeysong]

who else had to power to reign upon the 10 plagues of egypt? lol

[@deusdeaconReviews]

No one cent imhotep, hence my confusion with your initial comment but I understand now.

[@111horror]

The first two mummy movies were action, adventure, horror and the 3rd film is action, adventure, comedy

[@ryandowney8743]

It's sad the Yeti scene is so stupid because I really like that creature design.

[@starkilr101]

Also a Jet Li King Ghidorah is pretty nice to look at

[@ProjectV6]

A much better pick up line would be: "I'm an architect and I wanna dig you out."

[@deusdeaconReviews]

Architect ??

[@ProjectV6]

Not really understanding the question lol I thought I spelled it wrong initially but nope!

[@deusdeaconReviews]

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings, so i didn't understand the joke or relevance to the film.

[@ProjectV6]

Ah, I misunderstood your little pick up line from 10:20, my ADD shines through...

[@bartistclord1916]

Archaeologists dig up and study old stuff architects design NEW buildings @10:20 he says "Archaeologist" NOT architect. How about "You must be ancient ruins, because I'm an Archaeologist and I wanna explore your passages." still not so good. But really, if she's into you, it doesn't matter what you say. such as "How YOU doing ?" or "Hey HEY hey." or eye contact triggers a smile, then a wink and some eyebrow action with a head jerk towards the door while smiling.

[@werebear3408]

So do u hate this or the newest Tom cruise mummy movie more?

[@darkqueenfenrisulfr]

Chinese alchemy would have been a better

[@jenniferloving9054]

The Chinese had alchemy?!

[@BlizzardFanatic]

I’d rather sit and watch the original Mummy Trilogy back to back and all the scorpion king movies than sit through the Tom Cruise vehicle ever again 😂

[@jewlesmonster1016]

it would have been better if they said that was eve's twice removed sister.

[@hockeysong]

also to point out you miss out that Rick was retiring from the army cause he was in WW2 and thats how he met "Mad Dog" Maguire cause he was his pilot during the 2nd WW2 like really, this movie takes place 2 - 3 years after ww2

[@deusdeaconReviews]

I didn't "miss it out" it just wasn't relevant at all, Regardless where he met the guy its still contrived as fuck for him to have ANOTHER friend who flies a vehicle.

[@Magic_Tricks-p8d]

Review the 2017 Mummy reboot!

[@ivantrajkovski5055]

avatar had the bones thing right in a episode

[@nicholascauton9648]

I would still rather watch this movie over the more recent Tom Cruise Mummy movie. That one was all kinds of stupid from the very beginning.

[@deusdeaconReviews]

I mean if the choice was only between those two movies I would agree with you fortunately both can be effectively avoided and still have plenty of other films to choose from.

[@nicholascauton9648]

Oh hey! Didn’t expect you to reply back. Love your I Frankenstein review. I saw it once when it was on Sci-Fi channel some years ago but I didn’t care for it at the time. Seeing your review about it, I’m actually pretty glad I didn’t see the entire movie. On the other hand, I don’t deny that this Mummy movie sucks. It’s so bad, even The Mummy Returns is better in comparison.

[@jbonkerz]

I gotta say, I dont even remember this movie coming out.

[@elphaba4674]

"Oh rats"! Yeah thats how i feel about another actress playing eevee! And also...yetis? This movie had yetis?

[@troin3925]

The Yetis fit in just as well as one did in a Cabela's video game (I'm not kidding, that actually happened once).