Thus we have the movie as computer game writ large ... accelerated line of exposition - involves the original slaphead Mummy Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) plus a new threat in the shape of The Scorpion ...

The franchise launched with the premiere of the 1932 eponymous film, which starred horror icon Boris Karloff as the ancient Egyptian prince Imhotep ... Mummy "will be unlike any Mummy movie ...

Unfortunately for everyone, this group ends up unleashing a curse which been laid on the dead High Priest Imhotep. Now 'The Mummy' is awake and it's going to take a lot more than guns to send him ...

They discover the Bracelet of Anubis. But someone else is after the bracelet. High Priest Imhotep has been brought back from the dead once again and wants the bracelet, to control the Scorpion ...