In some cases, as with the 1999 Mummy remake, the resolution is telegraphed so early and so strongly that you grow board waiting for Brendon Frasier to wade through all the special-effect laden cliff hangers to finally win the day. Any suspense revolves around the hero discovering the monster's 'fatal weakness' just in time to save the heroine. In the end, the monster is always vanquished. One big structural problem with monster movies is the lack of suspense. There were some flaws, which I will mention later, but first the strong points: "The Monster Always Dies". The action is fast paced and the acting pretty good, plus it avoids most of the major structural pitfalls that plague the monster movie genre. I'm not sure why it's getting so many bad reviews.
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