Nefertiti: Resurrected (2003)

The greatest movie ever made..!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

An interesting commentary but far from a conclusion as any Historian or History buff knows, there is no ending to historical research. In this case I see a very promising beginning tainted by many outside what-ifs! Case in point is a comment on this page claiming the mummy was in fact a male because of DNA testing. Now my knowledge of DNA testing is that there are so many inherent problems, as to use DNA on ancient bodies as the last resort and decode the story from the clues around the site (which is also why if ANY item is moved it destroys major parts of the story and alters it because the item is now out of context; and this is another reason to out and out despise grave robbing and other looting of historical artifacts as it takes away from our joint human story), that said the DNA evidence is blotchy at best,plus based on modern statistics so to speak, but in ancient Egypt in the royal family there was a common practice called inbreeding that would significantly alter ANY such gender test-just look at the carvings of Akhenatan for example, we see clearly hermaphroditic traits on him in just about every seen depiction, and considering she was working on what information they could and/or were allowed to gather the conclusions she came to are understandable though not concrete. Plus she was banned from the site because she had 'broken the rules' according tho Dr.Hawass, who had apparently identified that same mummy not only as female but as a much older woman, though scientific research showed it to be a woman younger than 35 and therefor not the woman Dr.Hawass identified the mummy as being...I find it all to conveniently discouraging and in the realms of male 'acedamia' that is also something to consider. How could a team of experts who were on a blind study apparently get nearly everything wrong in a much controversial situation were more established 'scholars' were proved wrong, and one such scholar banned the young doctor investigating the issue? I hope we will get a chance to see more evidence and confirm if this really is the famous queen and discover her story.

I watched this video in Western Civ. class today, and I thought it was very interesting. I learned a lot about Nefertiti, and her husband Akhenaton, and I believe that Joann Fletcher is right, and the mummy is in fact Nefertiti. The only thing that kind of bothered me was that the video repeatedly showed the same shots of the actress portraying Nefertiti, over and over and over again, especially this one shot of her opening her eyes-yes, just opening her eyes, and they showed it constantly. Other than that, I think it was a great video. Joann was a bit annoying with her "Wows!' and "its amazings" but I think she had reason to be excited, since there is so much evidence that the mummy is Nefertiti.

We as people watch films for a number of reasons. We want to be entertained, we want to be informed, or we want to have something that stands as a reminder of something that we had like a connection we had with someone. This is not a perfect documentary that is for sure, it contains reacts to give you a picture of what it was like to be in the time period of Nefertiti that are at times a little over the top. However, for me it is a film that I fell strong about because of personal reasons. I always think about Egypt and that fact that it is in Afican but yet I have yet to see in a film a person of color play an Egyptian Queen or King. Also this documentary helped me learn who Nefertiti was. I had always seen sculptures of her around and pictures but I didn't know her name.

This "documentary" was mostly padding, e.g. staged "reenactments", dozens of one shots of Nefertiti's classic statuette, Dr. Fletcher walking here, there, everywhere--then reversing her path, and walking everywhere, there and here. Dozens of wasted minutes. And for Dr. Fletcher? Her gushing "Unbelievables", "Fantastics", "Unreals" and "Wows" mark her as the world's foremost scientific commentator. This is a product of the Discovery Channel--their money made it possible. As a documentary, it was completely unconvincing, poorly done, overlong and I feel it was a waste of time for me to watch this misfire. My recommendation is to avoid it.