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For a reader of Tardi's comic this movie is very silly. A mix of the 1st and 4th book (but with quite weak modifications that who knows how went into the final script version). It includes a horrible Egypt sub-story making Adèle a female Indiana Jones (?) explaining how the mummy got to Adèle's apartment (I wish I never knew...). We learn that the Egypt plot is just another attempt from Adèle to save her sister from a tennis accident (?) This story line has no relevance to the main story and only add minutes to the movie's runtime. In fact the movie, for me, as a reader of the original comic, does not make any type of sense (Ramses II at an exposition in the Louvre? What is she doing in the Titanic? They must be thinking about sequels, beware!). Even the beautiful actress is not right for the character of Adèle. Cinema is a different media but that is not an excuse to destroy or ridicule classic content for the sake of who knows what. I give 5/10 because there are still good moments, faithful to Tardi's stories (the majority of the casting is good, the first minutes or the hierarchy phone callings are well done). A missed opportunity from the director of "The Fifth Element" with the material of a great comic.
For a reader of Tardi's comic this movie is very silly. A mix of the 1st and 4th book (but with quite weak modifications that who knows how went into the final script version). It includes a horrible Egypt sub-story making Adèle a female Indiana Jones (?) explaining how the mummy got to Adèle's apartment (I wish I never knew...). We learn that the Egypt plot is just another attempt from Adèle to save her sister from a tennis accident (?) This story line has no relevance to the main story and only add minutes to the movie's runtime. In fact the movie, for me, as a reader of the original comic, does not make any type of sense (Ramses II at an exposition in the Louvre? What is she doing in the Titanic? They must be thinking about sequels, beware!). Even the beautiful actress is not right for the character of Adèle. Cinema is a different media but that is not an excuse to destroy or ridicule classic content for the sake of who knows what. I give 5/10 because there are still good moments, faithful to Tardi's stories (the majority of the casting is good, the first minutes or the hierarchy phone callings are well done). A missed opportunity from the director of "The Fifth Element" with the material of a great comic.