DVD Review - Day of the Mummy - Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer

Day of the Mummy
Director: Johnny Tabor
Starring: Danny Glover, William McNamara Andrea Monier, Eric Young, Robin Steffen, Philip Marlatt, Michael Cortez
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Retail: $27.97
ASIN: B00NC9TTGC
Running Time: 80 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Arriving on DVD on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 is the horror-adventure Day of the Mummy from director Johnny Tabor. The film stars Danny Glover, William McNamara, Andrea Monier, Eric Young, Robin Steffen, Philip Marlatt and Michael Cortez. There are no extras or special features on the DVD.

The film centers on an Indiana Jones-type adventurer, Jack Wells (played by William McNamara), who agrees to search for for a lost artifact, The Codex Stone, in Egypt for a millionaire Carl (played by Danny Glover), who happens to be a collector. Carl gives Jack a pair of high-tech glasses that will allow Carl to see everything that Jack is seeing.

Jack teams up with a group of archaeologists to find the tomb of King Neferu, but to their surprise there is a mummy in their path. The mummy will protect the stone at all costs. Jack must use his wits to outsmart the mummy, find the stone and save the girl (played by Andrea Monier).

While the cool DVD artwork looks another sequel to the Mummy (1999), Day of the Mummy is just a low-budget film that is lacking an actual plot and scares. It plays out a like a first-person video game, which you are seeing through the eyes of Jack Wells. Danny Glover occasionally pops up in the corner giving the character advice. Despite the mummy getting center-stage on on the DVD artwork, he is barely seen in the movie - maybe for six or seven minutes. While the premise is interesting for the most part, it is a bit boring until the last fifteen-minutes. I'm not saying the movie is horrible, just don't expect too. It falls in the line of B-movies that air on the Syfy channel.