The mummy must be stopped, of course, because if this warlord were to conquer everything with his terra-cotta legions, the world is in deep trouble. And of course it's up to Rick and Evelyn to stop him, and honestly, the story doesn't get much more complicated than that.

A bit of comic relief is supplied by John Hannah, who plays Evelyn's brother. Ford, unfortunately, has all the charisma of a golf ball in the role of Alex. Moving downward, his love interest is Lin, played by equally bland Isabella Leong. It all adds up to a bland adventure that’s big on action and jam packed with plot, but lacking in execution.

Cohen has some fine and varied vistas at his disposal, thanks to the Chinese location work, but while setting a mummy movie in China is pretty original, very little else in the movie is. It's obvious that director Cohen - the man behind the biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story - is trying in part to make a martial-arts homage, but he seems to have forgotten how to choreograph and shoot this stuff. The fight scenes with Hong Kong greats Li, Yeoh and company - filmed close up and cut with break-neck speed - are as uninspired as the dialogue.