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Arnold Vosloo plays Imhotep the mummy in the later scenes, after Imhotep has absorbed the inner organs of enough victims to reconstitute himself. Her brother Jonathan ( John Hannah) is a spoiled rich kid who specializes in the sorts of asides that butlers used to make. Evelyn ( Rachel Weisz) is too clumsy to be much help (in a delightful early scene, she knocks over one bookcase and the domino effect knocks over every single bookcase in the Museum of Antiquities).

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Also of course the flesh-eating beetles, although I was not certain whether they were a plague or came with the territory.Д«rendan Fraser plays Rick, a low-rent Indiana Jones who singlehandedly fights his way through a bewildering series of battles. If he is brought back to life, he will 'arise a walking disease,' we learn, and unleash the 10 proverbial plagues upon Egypt, of which in the course of the movie I counted locusts, fireballs from the sky, rivers running with blood, earthquakes, and flies. There is good reason not to disturb the mummy, named Imhotep. (Sample dialogue: 'Are we talking about THE Hamunaptra?') They get into a race with other fortune hunters, who have heard of untold treasure buried beneath the sands, while meanwhile the descendants of the high priests, who have guarded the city for 3,000 years, move against them. In the 1920s, a French foreign legionnaire named Rick meets a librarian named Evelyn, and joins with her and her brother in an unwise quest to find Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead. As his punishment he is 'mummified alive,' sealed inside a sarcophagus with thousands of flesh-eating beetles (which eat flesh 'very slowly,' we learn). This is a movie about a man who fooled around with the pharaoh's mistress and lived (and died, and lived again) to regret it.