January 30 movie: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. This was really, really bad. First of all, Rachel Weisz' replacement could not act her way out of a paper bag. Seriously, there are no other dark-haired actresses with British accents? The guy playing Fraser's and not-Weisz' son is equally bad. And the plot is ludicrous. And Jet Li is the villain, and he spends most of the movie stomping around as a CGI mud creature. Here's a tip: when you have Jet Li in your movie, do not make him into a mud man which can barely move! Duh. Most irritating is that the Chinese characters all speak Chinese with subtitles at first, then switch to English late in the movie. No actually, most irritating is that there are no mummies in this movie. But the characters keep talking about mummies! I'm sorry, Jet Li's character is not a mummy. He's a mud man.
The only good thing I can say about this movie is that Michelle Yeoh is also in it, and she and Jet Li have a good fight scene.
It really seemed like they took the same template and tried to make the first two movies over again. So Michelle Yeoh and her daughter are filling the Oded Fehr role. Drunken Irish pilot is crazy balloon pilot. Etc. But the CGI yetis were fun. Puking yaks, not so much