Tonight on Netflix: This is one of the best adventure movies out there, so we’ll forgive its slightly dated special effects

Netflix subscribers can enjoy one of the best adventure movies of the 90s, The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser. If the film is based on its famous ancestor from 1932 with Boris Karloff, it ends up offering a completely different kind of entertainment, lighter and more in line with what the audience could have hoped for.

Imhotep! Imhotep!

The Mummy is the story of adventurer Rick O’Connell who discovers the ruins of Hamunaptra, a city of the dead that has never been found since ancient times. With the help of an Egyptologist and his brother, they set off in search of the treasure of the pharaohs, so that Imhotep, the high priest of Thebes, is mummified there.

Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah star and their team works very well between the treasure hunter, the scrupulous historian and the guy who’s a bit shallow but has the core (literally). It is their dynamics, the tension and the rhythm set by the staging that give this film all its interest.

Another advantage is that the film is suitable for all viewers – at least from the age of eight – and The Mummy can rock children in a relaxed atmosphere. If the Goonies left them unmoved and they weren’t scared, you can take it a step further and offer them this version of the mummy that gives them all the sights they can.

Not everything has aged well

After all, despite being overseen by John Burton from Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, The Mask and Casper, we have to admit that the special effects of the 1999 version of The Mummy took a visual hit at times. The scene of the beetles or the close-ups on the faces of certain creatures are sometimes painful today, but they do not detract from the whole.

Stunt, humor, danger, adventure, exploration, the film takes its audience with it in a well-crafted plot and above all, well-directed by Stephen Somers.