Day of the Mummy (2014)

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Blistering performances.

I bought this movie, for $10 at walmart. ... Why did i do that? i Don't know!! I through hey the back cover looked similar to The Mummy.. I hate being mislead.HONIEST TRAILER! - Welcome to a movie that keeps you locked in and can't escape that vicious camera working of movements that make you nausous and sick to your stomach, comes a movie that just does just that! Meet a man i cant remember team up with others i cant remember hired by the only great actor that people forgot about Danny Glover. As the Forgottan man is hired to go to a tomb or so to find a thing for Glover, he is meet up with some other people mentioned earlier.The Desert police stop them and then find out they can be there.. Then with the worlds most sick to your stomach camera movements you start to get sick and have to fast forward and t hen when you do see the mummy It scares you so much that you turn the movie off and sell it with other movies at Mega Replay for $13 dollars making a 10 dollar movie worth barely anything with others you sold with it. THE DAY OF THE MUMMY WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS IN VOMITING YOUR LUNGs out prepare for a nightmare of bad camera movments from the people who similar ways did CLoverfield.. COmes a sick to your stomach movie called Day of the Mummy .. Beware ......

Wondrous science fiction/fantasy adventure centering on the return of an Egyptian king from the land of the dead. Imaginatively directed by Johnny Tabor and highlighted by startling special effects, the thrills never let up as an American archaeologist encounters something so horrific that it's beyond belief. Screen writer Garry Charles penned an exciting script which isn't just jam packed with unrelenting terror but also allows the characters to be developed so they're not just the usual one dimensional figures that run through horror movies. William McNamara gives an inspired performance as Egyptologist Jack Wells and he brings intelligence and charisma to his role. The always wonderful Danny Glover does some of his finest work in years in the supporting role of Carl and it's good to see him back in form. While the film contains its share of blood and some gore, it's still an adventure story in the tradition of King Solomon's Mines and Indiana Jones, therefore suitable for most young people 13 years of age and older. Don't miss the spectacular, epic saga that awaits you on The Day of the Mummy.

Only one Mummy movie, in my opinion, is worse and that's The Mummy Resurrected, which had eerily similar problems to the ones that this had. Day of the Mummy does have one redeeming quality(whereas The Mummy Resurrected had none) and that's the location of the inside of the Mummy's tomb, suitably claustrophobic and effectively creepy. In fact the locations in general are not too bad. But it was very difficult to enjoy them because the movie had such a dreary look and the way Day of the Mummy was shot was highly suggestive someone having the complete inability to keep a camera/video-recorder straight.Day of the Mummy does use the found footage-like/picture-in-picture idea. This could have worked and could have potentially been creative, but it is way over-used and often at points where it was not needed. To say it was distracting was an understatement, so much so that a lot of the time it was used it took me right out of the movie. The script is incredibly weak, some of it sounds like it was improvised on the spot but most of it sounds like the actors only received the dialogue just minutes before and were reading from cue cards, hence why it was acted out in such an uninvolved and awkward manner. As for the story, there are glimpses of one but there is strong emphasis on the glimpses, what there is of story is painfully predictable, interminably slow in pace and lacking in everything you'd expect for a horror to work(suspense, tension, horror, fun, scares, thrills etc.).The characters are walking clichés ridden to death, and they are not developed or interesting at all so it's impossible to root for them. To make things worse the acting is awful from actors who clearly did not want to be there in the first place, even from Danny Glover who squints and winces his way through his screen time giving the impression of why did I ever agree to do this. However that he is actually the best actor in the movie is testament to how bad the acting is, William McNamara is a long way from a dashing hero and actually looks bored out of his skull, even the most bored-sounding answering machine has more energy than him. Don't expect the Mummy/monster to save the movie, it doesn't look too bad but it's under-utilised, it acts intoxicated rather than imposing so it doesn't come across as scary at all and it's hard to shake off the feeling of that it's a man in a costume. Apparently the director has prior experience, but considering the ineptness of the direction here that's hard to believe.In conclusion, awful movie in every way apart from the tomb location. Maybe see it to see for yourself how Glover fares here and how his career has gone down the toilet, otherwise while not quite as abysmal as The Mummy Resurrected Day of the Mummy should have stayed buried. 1/10 Bethany Cox

if it wasn't for Glover being in it i would never have watched it. even the mummy which you don't see till near the end just looks like a bloke quickly wrapped up pretty sure anyone could recreate this with a cheap camera. no idea why i watched it to the end, nothing really happens in the hole film. have no idea how much profit these low budget movies make, only assuming just enough to make there next.Danny Glover is the highest-paid actor in the world, pulling in an astonishing $96 million between November 2013 and November 2014, a nearly $60 million lead over his closest competition.maybe this film was a bigger hit then i realize???with the amount he was in this film im sure he spent the morning in the studio and then on to the next movie. making 22 movies in 2 years im sure that's a pretty busy scheduled. funny how some actors say yes to everything and some cherry pick the better ones, but then i guess hes doing something right.hoping the other 21 movies are better then day of the mummy