Explain how the film is typical of the action advenure genre.

The Mummy Returns

The events in the film The Mummy Returns fit into the action/adventure genre. The theme of good versus evil fits into the genre conventions and a large part of the film is based on war which is a large part of action adventure films and adds excitement and thrills to the film to keep the audience on edge. It enables a large battle/fight scene at the end of the film and at one point enables the antagonist to have the power to create suspense for the audience. However soon the protagonist starts to slowly gain the upper hand on the battle and finally defeats the antagonist once and for all. This helps the audience empathise with the main protagonist as they are the morally correct characters to feel empathetic towards and be on their side. The antagonists and protagonists are clear in the film in the sense that the protagonist is presented as heroic and confident, which their superior capabilities of the heroes position the audience to empathise with them an be on their side. The antagonist is presented as demonic and evil partly done by special CGI effects with the scene in which Imhotep rips his face off to the audience when he is first shown. The protagonist has a clear goal in which he has to reach before the end of the film. In this case it is Richard O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) saving Evelyn O'Connell (Rachel Weisz) and defeating Imhotep and potentially saving the world from an eternal reign of evil.