I enjoyed it, having not seen the other Mummy scenes. I also had issues with the lead taking out Jet Li's heavy; I think he probably have gotten a bit more help from ancient long-practiced martial artists (actually, if I'd staged it, I'd have done a lot more with the "Yeoh has had an extra 2000 years to practice martial arts, but Li is still immortal and has more combat-effective magic" angle rather than the more symetrical fight they actually did). Li and Yeoh very much steal the show with their duel -- but that's completely unsurprising. When you put the best two dancers of the age on stage together, you kinda expect their dance to be better than anyone else's...oddly enough, it is. Compared to Indy...well, I'm not as attached to the characters (Marion!) but I think it's overall a better move, if largely because it has a lot of good scenes and no anchors like the "refrigerator" scene.
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I also had issues with the lead taking out Jet Li's heavy; I think he probably have gotten a bit more help from ancient long-practiced martial artists (actually, if I'd staged it, I'd have done a lot more with the "Yeoh has had an extra 2000 years to practice martial arts, but Li is still immortal and has more combat-effective magic" angle rather than the more symetrical fight they actually did).
Li and Yeoh very much steal the show with their duel -- but that's completely unsurprising. When you put the best two dancers of the age on stage together, you kinda expect their dance to be better than anyone else's...oddly enough, it is.
Compared to Indy...well, I'm not as attached to the characters (Marion!) but I think it's overall a better move, if largely because it has a lot of good scenes and no anchors like the "refrigerator" scene.