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Tomb, The (2004)

BOMB (out of 4)

Before his recent death, Italian hackmaster Bruno Mattai was able to have a rather strong comeback after several years in retirement. This guy is either hated as a hack or loved as an Ed Wood type filmmaker but I don't see how anyone could enjoy this film. The film deals with a group of scientists who travel to Mexico to find the tomb of an evil King buried hundreds of years before. When they find the tomb, led by a witch, they discover that a mummy is alive and ready to kill them. This extremely low budget film was shot on a Digital camera so that there doesn't work with me from the start. I was hoping Mattai would get back to his so bad it's good film-making style but that never happens and by the ten minute mark I was wanting to turn this thing off. Needless to say but the performances are all horrid and Mattai still doesn't know how to make a film move at a good pace. This one here goes very slowly with nothing happening for it. As with other Mattai films, this one here rips off countless other films including lifted scenes from Army of Darkness and a scene for scene remake of the dance sequence in From Dusk Till Dawn.

If "The Mummy" was to be a low-budget movie with poor acting and poor writers, this was it. The movie starts with a scene that may recall to many the one from "The Mummy", as it develops, you are going to discover that it actually is a poor remake of the movie only here the special effects don't quite figure and the set is in Peru. I've never seen a movie that made me want to leave the theater! Anyway, analyzing the movie we can see that the acting was pretty bad, but at times it was actually viewable (almost makes me fell sorry for voting 1 instead of 2), the special effects weren't that good either, plus I actually saw an Mayan king wearing contact lenses (weird but true) and above all i didn't know watches were actually used in ancient burial rites, but what do I know! When I checked Bruno Mattei's references I thought that since he had directed about 117 movies he learned something from each one (learn from your mistakes) but now I see the truth: You are who you are meant to be!

So first off, I strongly recommend this to everyone. Yeah I gave it 3 stars (which was generous), but it is a delight every second. Bruno Mattei decided to take on the big-budget Mummy starring Brendan Fraser, and even has a big blond numbnuts with all of Fraser's bad qualities (but none of his good ones - like charisma).

The film opens up with the least-convincing college students of all time, out on a random archeology trip with the least-convincing college professor of all time.

Eventually they hook up with a moderately-convincing witch with a backstory that makes no sense whatsoever. They summon up a cheap-ass Mayan mummy who goes "Rawr" and then students start dropping like flies. there is a little Army of Darkness in the mix, and some ancient traps, and some neato undead Aztec Priests pounding on tom-toms, and an ancient jewel and more.

Basically, Mattei's plan for this movie is to keep throwing things at you hoping you'll forget nothing in it makes sense.

I loved every second and I bet you will too.