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Directed by Russell Mulcahy, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb tells the story of Danny Freemont who searches for the tomb of King Tut and the four pieces of an ancient tablet rumored to possess great occult powers. His academic rival, Morgan Sinclair, has stolen three of those four pieces from him on behalf of the Hellfire Council(a secret group of men who pan to use the tablets for world domination). What neither side realizes is that once the pieces have been rejoined, the tablet will open the portal to hell, unleashing the demons of the underworld and eventually releasing King Tut as well bringing ultimate chaos to the world. The movie stars Casper Van Dien, Leonor Varela, Jonathan Hyde, Steven Waddington, and Malcolm McDowell.

In my honest opinion of the movie, it is an entertaining fantasy movie that combines elements of The Mummy and Indiana Jones in a(as others have mentioned) 'cheesy B-movie' kind of way. If I had any gripes with the movie, it would be that it was abit slow in some areas of the movie. The fact that it was such a chessy B-movie was what made it so fun for me to watch. Sure, there are historical inaccuracies everywhere in this movie but who cares? Movies are meant to be fun to watch and this one achieves that quite well. I've seen worser movies in my time, some that were downright horrible. It makes me wonder why everyone is ragging on this movie so much. It isn't that bad, folks. Going into it, you can tell that this isn't a direct remake to Boris Karloff's movie. If it were, things would be played more seriously.

Despite everyone else's feelings on the movie, I liked it myself. Would I spend full price for this movie just to have it? No but not for the reasons you'd expect. How about if it were in a reasonably priced movie bin? Definitely.

If I had any advice or recommendations, I'd say rent before you buy and make up your own mind.

This is one of those movies made to entice children and ease the minds of the parents. It has a known scary plot, scary premise, scary special effects (although they don't come into play until the last 30 minutes) and no bad language or gory scenes. All the makings of a child's scary movie. Except for the fact that it clocks in at 4 hours! I don't know many children with the patience to sit that long.
If this were intended for adults, I would have given it one star. For children, I would chop away and refine the plot to about 1.5 hours. The special effects would have been greatly improved for adults, as well as making the plot make more sense.
However... for kids I think it's fine except for the length.
It does drag in spots. And the ending just doesn't fit no matter how much they dress it up with special effects.
The acting, sets and background music are definitely grade B and that's ok... that's what was intended. But as a grade B it won't have a life beyond the first viewing because it's too long, too dry.
Most classic grade B's are much shorter, more entertaining and memorable and get really campy at times to increase the entertainment value. This doesn't fit there.
So... If you have children who can sit still for 4 hours, or watch a movie in increments, this is for you. Otherwise I'd pass it up for the Brendan Frasier 'Mummy' movies.