Review of: The Mummy Overall Rating: 9 The Mummy is a wonderful adventure tale in the vein of the 40's 50's swashbuckler movies. I really enjoy watching this film for it's great sense of humor, mystery, and suspense. The movie opens up with the back story for Imhotep setting up the tragic love story that led the character to become cursed and establishes his motivations. The film has a great pace. Though they use names and events from history they take great liberty with the actual historical accurateness. This is definitely an owner.