To me, this movie is perfection.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The ancient Egyptian High-Priestess Aneh-Tet awakens from her 4000 year sleep to rule the world.The biggest draw for this film is the appearance of horror icon Zach Galligan ("Gremlins"). Someone else wrote that the only redeeming thing about his film is the brief nudity. I guess I do not see that as a highlight... I would rather see Galligan than a random topless woman.What is so great about this film is how they treat the ancient Egyptian language. We have to wonder, how does the college girl (or anyone besides the mummy) speak a dead language? Unlike Latin, it is not like you can learn to pronounce things by looking at the old glyphs. Likewise, I love the literal translation of hieroglyphics, even with the name "Molly". While I am not fluent in Egyptian, I am pretty sure that is not how the language works.

I have made no secret of intensely disliking most of The Asylum's movies, but there is something about their awfulness that intrigues me into watching more of their movies, also to see if they'd make a decent movie. So far there has been four of their films that are better than you'd expect, but they are still average. Which is more than I could say for Legion of the Dead, which is down there with their worst. The two leading ladies are beautiful and there is one mildly amusing line, other than it is utter drivel from start to finish. It is very poorly made, I have seen better camera work from our camcorder at home, while the scenery is tacky, the lighting dull and the special effects really fake and cheesy-looking. The music and sound effects have a tendency to drown out the dialogue and they are far too obvious, when something "scary" happens they single-handedly ruin the suspense and scare-factor these scares ought to have. The dialogue apart from one line is so corny it makes your ears cringe with embarrassment, while the story, aside from that it is very formulaic- takes far too long to get going and never gets exciting or suspenseful. The characterisations of the mummies are frustratingly inconsistent, either make them rip out body parts with one hand or make them annoyingly ineffectual, but please don't make them have both, with more emphasis on the latter. The human characters are stereotypical and are not likable in the slightest, and beautiful eye-candy unfortunately doesn't equal good acting, which is what is severely lacking in Legion of the Dead. In conclusion, the only thing really that is scary about Legion of the Dead was how truly awful it was. 1/10 Bethany Cox

My summary sums up my opinion. Let's begin with Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars about a resurrected evil female mummy. A novel that has been filmed several times first in the 1960's as a TV movie,then in 1970 as Blood on the Mummy's Tomb,then in 1980 as The Awakening,then in 1986 as the Tomb and then again in 1999 as Bram Stoker's The Mummy. Then you have Anne Rice's Mummy/Vampire Akasha from the novels Queen of the Damned and Vampire Lestat filmed in 2002 with the late singer Aaliyah in the title role. Next three influences: George A. Romero in this movie you get mummies tearing out spines not flesh eating zombies. Universal Mummy films of the 1940's the sets in this movie even though the locale is about an Egyptian tomb found in California(?) are almost as good as some of the Egyptian sets in the Mummy movies of the 1940's and the film had some thrills and chills. Explorer Thor Heyerdahl who wrote the books Kon-tiki, Island Civilizations of Polynesia in 1970 with his Ra II sea vessel made of papyrus reeds like Ancient Egyptian vessels could have reached the American hemisphere in Ancient times. The idea of the Egyptian traders and a banned from Egypt evil Priestess living and dying in ancient but primitive and barbaric California could something like that have happened? Archaeologists for the past century and a half have found Egyptian artifacts hieroglyphics and statues in strange places such as Ancient Native North and Ancient Central American excavation sites as well as Australia. Pyramids have been found in places other than Egypt and Central America-Italy,the Canary Islands and believe it or not Japan. The Pharoahs had seaworthy explorers and they had a lot of help from a maritime people known as the Phoenicians who came from the Lebanon area of the Middle East. Years ago they found traces of cocaine and tobacco plants whose origins are in the North and South American continents in the stomach of an Egyptian Mummy. Another fact most continental Asians did not have hooked or Roman noses something a lot of Aztecs,Mayas and Incas did have and some of their descendants still do have if you look at the codexes and read the Spanish explorers descriptions of the physical appearances of the so-called aboriginal peoples of parts of the United States,Central and South America. Sorry to report that it sounds like some other explorers other than the Norse,Spanish,Swedish,Dutch,French and English intermixed quite frequently with the so-called Ancient Asian origin Native peoples of North,Central and South America and the nearby islands of the Caribbean. Chieftains would give away some of their women as brides or mistresses to explorers and traders. Sex knows no color when men have been denied heterosexual sex for long periods of time. Now back to the movie both the heroines and the priestess mummy villainess did well in their roles. I think the villainess was well cast she looked like she could be a real Egyptian. If I were going to cast a movie about Ancient Egypt she would definitely be in it. The Egyptians racial origins go back to two racial groups East African Black and Southern Arabian Semitic. To do an accurate movie on Egypt choose East Africans and people of Middle Eastern descent because even in Ancient times caucasoid Europeans even if they were Greek or Roman were considered a minority even though both groups had conquered Ancient Egypt during Alexander the Great and Augustus Octavian Caesar. The acting in the movie was camp for sure but it was worth watching. I wish the writer would have left had the George Romero influence.

I saw this movie with friends, and we had good fun. We didn't expect to be scared to the bone but rather wanted something that would make us laugh and give us a couple of surprising moments. This movie hit the mark.I liked seeing Bruce Boxleitner and Zach Galligan after several years. They did a good job as did the females in the three main roles. The Egyptian woman did a good job making the language sound real. I liked having the sisters together and seeing how different they were.I could have done without the gore. Eww. And who names a girl Kevin? I thought she was more likable than the student chick. I would have made her the central character.But overall - it's a fun movie if you don't listen to the director's commentary.