Like its predecessors, this Mummy installment stretches the limits of how much CGI razzle dazzle a single frame of film can handle. Considering little of the original film’s verbal wit is left, the experience is mostly pulverizing. As adventurer Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) does battle against a resurrected Chinese warlord (Jet Li), people turn into mud and then burst into flames; yetis give way to hydras; and armies of stone soldiers do battle with armies of skeletons. There isn’t a reason for any of it except that Hollywood has computers capable of realizing such visions.
