It tries to be comedy, action and horror, too many elements, and fails at all three. The story is dull, disjointed and confused, while also tonally a complete mess.
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One of the worst aspects of 'The Mummy' is the dialogue, full of clunky exposition, unfunny and childish humour and often a clichéd shambles it's laughably bad. The music is generic at best and Alex Kurtzman's direction is muddled and without any kind of soul or a sense that he knew what to do with the film's tone. The way 'The Mummy' is photographed and edited can be too frenetic and the special effects veer on the cheap. Then we have Jake Johnson providing irritating and very poorly placed comic relief. Cruise and Wallis' chemistry is non-existent. Russell Crowe phones in his performance here, looking miserable and awkward and not making anything of his lines.
Tom Cruise is embarrassingly miscast in a role that both doesn't suit him and is long in the tooth for, he also feels out of kilter in the setting. Some of the scenery is striking and some of the photography is slick and stylish. The best performance comes from an imperiously chilling Sofia Boutella, doing such a good job with what she's given to work with, and Annabelle Wallis does decently with relatively little. Its best things are two good performances. Not irredeemable but is lacking in almost every department. 'The Mummy' is such an occasion where to me the critics are on point. Usually am very encouraging and try to be perceptive, do not take pleasure in bashing films that don't do anything for me. This is also coming from somebody who does find herself many times agreeing with critics, but has just as many times gone against the grain, thinking that negatively received films are not that bad while acknowledging their faults and also thinking that acclaimed films are not that good while acknowledging the things it does right. Unfortunately, so is 2017's 'The Mummy'.īefore anybody jumps down my throat and accuses me of following the crowd, an accusation that is becoming tiresome and ridiculous and says more about the person making the accusation than the people they're attacking, as said 'The Mummy' did have potential and personally really wanted it to work. Some of the previous 'Mummy' films, particularly the instalments with Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee and the 1999 film, wasn't crazy about a few of the Lon Chaney entries and 'Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' was a mess. "THE MUMMY'S CURSE (1944) - An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths Kharis the living mummy (Lon Chaney Jr.), who was buried in quicksand 25 years earlier.Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 2 / 10 Lacks lustre in almost every departmentĭespite concerns (such as whether Tom Cruise would fit), 'The Mummy' did have potential. However, the high priest^Òs greedy desires cause him to loose control of the mummy." Learning that Ananka^Òs spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. "THE MUMMY'S GHOST (1944) - An Egyptian high priest (John Carradine) travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.). "THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1942) - A high priest travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician (Cecil Kellaway) and his beautiful daughter (Peggy Moran), they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest (George Zucco) and the living mummy Kharis (Tom Tyler) who are the guardians of Ananka's tomb."
"THE MUMMY'S HAND (1940) - A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. Muller, attempts to discover the key to Ardath Bay's powers and get Helen back." When Sir Joseph interferes he mysteriously dies. He then uses his mystic powers mesmerize the reincarnation of his lost love in the form of Helen Grosvenor. Unknown to them, the Mummy now exists as the mysterious Egyptian, Ardath Bay, who helps the expedition uncover the tomb of his ancient love. 10 years later Sir Joseph returns with his son Frank. When one young archaeologist opens the scroll of Thoth, he goes delirious and the Mummy comes to life. "THE MUMMY (1932) - In 1921 a team of British archaeologists led by Sir Joseph Whemple uncovers the 3700 year old mummy of Imhotep. THE MUMMY films from the UNIVERSAL LEGACY COLLECTION