In the scene where the brother picks up the scarab, it breaks open and the beetle inside starts to crawl under his skin. We see Brendan Fraser tear the brother’s shirt and we see a knife and can only assume they cut the beetle out of him. However, in the very next scene, we see the brother walking into the temple, his shirt is intact and there is no blood to be seen.
In the part where Imothep’s priests are chasing the trio in the hall right before they get to the book of Amun-Ra, the guy in black is blasting away with a machine gun. When they reach the room with the statue, Brenden Fraiser hands the man in black his shotgun. The machine gun has disappeared.
I counted only 6 plagues.
Brendan Fraser is wearing captain’s bars in French Foreign Legion uniform. The majority of Legion commissioned officers have always been French. Some were from central or eastern Europe, but I’ve never heard of an English-speaking officer, particularly not one so patently lacking in officer potential as Fraser!
Egypt in the 1920s was dominated by the British. The prisons would have been run by British officers, and hangings would not have been so arbitrary. British-style prisons are run by ‘governors’, not ‘wardens’.
What is the ‘Royal Air Corps’? It was the Royal Flying Corps until 1918, and has been the Royal Air Force ever since.
The pilot is wearing an unidentifiable cap badge (it’s certainly not RAF). He is also wearing his pilot’s brevet (wings) on his right breast pocket; the RAF, like most air forces, wear their brevets above their left breast pocket. The RAF presence in Egypt was still very much there in the 1920s: there were several stations, not simply one elderly pilot who had been forgotten about.
What happens to all the British when the plagues arrive? All the people affected seem to be Egyptian. Where are the army and police?
Why did the pharaoh’s guards create something which was so dangerous that they had to devote their lives and those of their descendants to making sure it did not escape? Seems like pretty poor planning!
Why were the descendants of the pharaoh’s guards apparently Moslems? Surely they would have preserved the old ways.
The biplane is a DeHavilland Tiger Moth from the 1930s, too modern for the period of the film. But then again the Tiger Moth has stood in as a generic biplane countless times - it almost seems too late to worry about now!
The Mummy takes a man’s eyes, but the man needs glasses for him to see clearly and the mummy can see perfectly well without glasses afterwards.
Toward the end of the movie, when Imothep is talking to Anck-Su-Namum, when they show a close up of her face and neck you can see her neck move with her pulse.
In the scene in the library, when Evie is putting back the books. She leans over to put the book back, but it falls to the ground and she is balancing on the ladder. When the camera cuts back to show the whole ladder, the book is nowhere to be found on the floor.
In the scene towards the beginning where the librarian knocks over all the bookshelves, she’s wearing glasses. She never wears glasses after this, even when reading.
When the biplane sinks into the quicksand, why don’t any of the parts around it sink as well? For that matter, why did the plane suddenly start sinking after staying in a fairly stable position for at least 15 seconds? [Quicksand’s weird…]
On the DVD version of the movie there are some deleted scenes - one would have explained two mistakes that occured towards the end of the movie. Mistake one was that there was a hole in the ground when Jonathan and Rick are at the base of the statue of Horus. You can see the hole clearly when Rick lights the TNT - but without the missing scene there is absolutely no reason for that hole to be there and it just sort of appears.
The second mistake is why there is no salt acid bobby-trap protecting the gold book like there was protecting the black book. In the missing scene some of Imhotep’s priests burst through the floor/ground and attack Jonathan and Rick, who get tossed aside. The priests then open the gold book’s hiding place and get burned all up by the salt acid. You can even see when Rick grabs the TNT that there is smoke rising from the hole.
When O’Connell (Fraser) flies back to Hamunaptra he is wearing a black scarf like thing around his neck. In the following scenes the scarf disappears then returns a few times.
Also when the beetle goes into the brother it goes in his left arm, Fraser rips the shirt, and cuts him in the forearm. Just before he cut we saw that the beetle was closer to the shoulder area. In the following scene the brother has blood on his right arm, his shirt is no longer torn and he has a bandage on his left hand.
Just out of curiosity, where did the bandage come from on Fraser’s hand at the end of the movie?
Why don’t they have to wait for the rising sun to be “shown the way” to Hamunaptra when they flew there towards the end of the movie? They had to wait for it at the beginning, right?
If, towards the end of the movie, Imhotep, Beni, and Evie flew in on a whirlwind and Jonathan, Rick, and Winston flew in on a plane, where did the camels come from that they rode off on?
The mummy Imhotep looks completely different the first time we see him (the dummy version) than the next time (the CGI version).
As Jonathan, Rick and guy in black enter the gold room, they engage in a mummy fight with Imotep’s priests. During the fight they blast the mummy priests to pieces. During the last scenes in the room of gold, what happened to the pieces of the mummy priests - shouldn’t they have been scattered all over the path to the stairs? Someone must’ve been standing by with a broom…