The Mummy: Kingdom of the Dragon Emperor

Three headed dragons and immortal terracotta warriors galavanting about trying to cut everyone's heads off, no it's not the latest Harry Potter film it's the third movies in the Mummy series.

Brendan Fraser returns to one of his more funnier, yet heroic characters as archeologist Rick O'Connell and instead of raiding the tombs of dead pharochs with a war-complex who wants nothing more than to become immortal and rule the entire world, he's off to China fighting a dead emperor with a war complex who wants wants nothing more than to become immortal and rule the entire world.

Its been several years since the second film and it does feel that some of the shine has worn off the latest offering.

The story works well and delivers a lot of good action early on but this later dissipates into pointless pacey scenes of conversations between terrible actors who can't act.

Evy O'Connell (played superbly by Racheal Weiss in the previous two movies) has been replaced by Maria Bello who appears to have no emotions other than mediocre happiness and flatly delivered lines.

Luke Ford who plays the now grown-up Alex O'Connell, son of Rick and Evy of course does little to add weight to his and some of the other actors ailing performances. He has a personality as deep as a dried up puddle and fails to do anything useful all the way through. He must of got it from his mother's side of the family.

John Hannah bucks this trend however by reprising his role as Evy's bumbling brother. In fact it is him and Brendan Fraser who carry the rest of the disasterous cast through to the end.

But if you feel you can tolerate some of the more annoying characters then the plot does certainly do the film justice, bar the silly three-headed dragon.

They didn't have any of that nonsense in the first two films so why do they need it now?