DVD Review: Day Of The Mummy

By Brad Henderson

Remember PC games in the ‘90s that were very story based with a ton of cinematics and limited gameplay? For the most part, the cut scenes were actual actors and not animation and they were poorly acted. I was always a big FPS fan and I disliked the type of games that included just a lot of walking around, pushing buttons, and someone who popped up in your HUD and told you what you were doing wrong or right. I’m guessing this is why I disliked Day Of The Mummy.

Day Of The Mummy is a film that is shot solely from the POV of our main character through his glasses. . . yeah. I’m still having trouble comprehending how and why a filmmaker used this tactic. The film doesn’t look cheap but the route it took made it look cheesy and silly.

In Day Of The Mummy we are quickly presented with the suave and cool Jack Wells who is played by William McNamara. William McNamara isn’t a bad actor but he is a little too old and goofy to play this character. We see Jack Wells in bed with two women in the beginning of our film but when he appears he just doesn’t look the part. Instead of picking someone that looks like a rugged expeditioner or a badass; we are given a “dad” instead. Did I mention Danny Glover is in this film? He is, and it’s so laughable. It’s clear that Glover did this simply for the cash and probably completed all his scenes in ten minutes. In the film Jack Wells is hired by Danny Glover’s character Carl to go on an expedition to retrieve some sort of stone from a tomb…

That’s pretty much the plot. It doesn’t dive into any twists and turns at all and stays stagnant the entire time.

This entire film is set up like a video game from the ‘90s. It even has Danny Glover pop up in the corner of Wells’s glasses from time to time to chat or tell him a piece of information. Maybe I’m the only one that remembers video games doing this. It was popular at the time but soon disappeared because no action or anything eventful happened during the course of playing the game. This is the same problem that Day Of The Mummy has; it feels like all the live-action sequences from a failed video game were edited together to make this movie.

I give the film props for the actual mummy who shows up because they didn’t go the CG route. It doesn’t save the film in the slightest because it doesn’t show up until the end but I’m trying to find one good thing about this film and that’s about it. I normally don’t suggest skipping a film because everyone has different tastes, but this one will definitely leave a bad taste in there after watching it.

Day Of The Mummy was released via Image Entertainment on December 9.