If the series Ancient Aliens has taught me anything through its meandering years of existence, is that the Egyptians were contacted by aliens. Also, they may have been aliens and or are human-alien hybrids. They may have also just been really good at math and never met an alien in their whole existence. Honestly, Ancient Aliens hasn't taught me anything of note. So, keeping that in the back of our brains, we move to Time Walker, a movie about a mummy found in King Tut's tomb that wasn't King Tut. It's also about how a college campus/museum/research lab was harassed by an alien just trying to get his crap back.
According to Time Walker, there was an unexplored chamber in King Tut's tomb that was filled with the bodies of some dead guards and a hastily buried mummy. The mummy was in perfect condition, so it's brought back to the US, where all things ancient Egypt belong. Here, a team of crack students and part-time professors study it thoroughly using all their "skills." With the help of some well-placed exposition, we learn it may not be a traditional mummy, but may indeed be an ALIENNNNNN. It's also covered in a mold that turns into a skin melting killer fungus after being exposed to radiation. The same radiation that powers up our alien friend and sends him on an accidental killing spree. I say that it's accidental because he only wants his gems back, which were stolen by a shmuck character earlier and hocked for money. So, will the mummy alien fungus man get his stones back before he murders his way through the campus? Meh.
For a movie about a fungus wielding mummy alien, Time Walker is really dull. Most of the film consists of poorly shot and poorly acted scenes of people jabbering on about nothing. There's some kind of unexplained animosity between some of the students and their teacher. That same teacher is sleeping with a student. None of these things really matter to the film but are stretched out in detail. Also, three of the male characters look weirdly similar, so I kept losing track of who was who. The action boils down to the odd choke out death scene and a lot of humans moving from place to place after the mummy has already been and gone. The standout highlight of the movie is the reveal of the alien's original form, which is absolutely low budget hilarious. I laughed out loud at the reveal. I half expected him to try to sell me a coke at the end of it.
I can't in good conscience recommend this one, even to bad movie buffs. It's dull, plodding pace, and terrible acting hampers what could have been a goofy, but fun story idea. In the end, Time Walker will make you yawn and check your watch more than it will entertain you.