Oooh, I hated the 3rd Mummy movie (and I was actually looking a bit forward to it last year). The Mummy was just cool, The Mummy Returns was sort of okay-ish (Sorry, I can't denounce anything that has Rachel Weisz in it!) but M:TOTDE just did everything wrong. It was like a three-year old's version of Indiana Jones. And it's mostly to be blamed on the director. How a hack like Rob Cohen is still making movies is beyond me. But the biggest flaw to me was to put Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li together in a movie and then just ignore the fact that you have Michelle F-ing Yeoh and Jet F-ing Li in your movie, together! That's just blasphemous.
Recent movies I've seen:
MACHETE
Simple: believe the hype. If the dick-hardening trailer isn't your thing, skip it. Otherwise, you'll love it. Loved to see Danny Trejo finally getting his props but hated to see Michelle Rodriguez again being underused like in Avatar. Easily one of the coolest movies this year.
MOON
Proves that watching one guy on a mining base on the far side of the moon can be quite compelling. Lovely CGI-lite old school sci-fi story by the son of Ziggy Stardust.
SHANGHAI
WW II murder mystery with quite the starry cast (Chow Yun-Fat, John Cusack, Ken Watanabe, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gong Li). It's october 1941 and the Japanese have just bumrushed half of Asia and are secretely eyeing the Hawaiian islands. Set in Shanghai (like, duh?!) the plot revolves around an american agent caught up in a murder mystery (and maybe more). It won't blow you away but it looks beautiful, is well acted and it was cool to see a movie again that is just about the story. No gimmicky setpieces, no anachronistic political correctness, just the story. And the WWII/Shanghai setting is an interesting one. So worth checking out.