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The Mummy (1999)

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Sex & Nudity (7)
Violence & Gore (11)
Profanity (3)
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
Frightening & Intense Scenes (5)
Spoilers (2)

Sex & Nudity

Mild 92 of 168 found this mild Severity? None 44 Mild 92 Moderate 26 Severe 6 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
There is some flirting between a man and a woman. Edit
A man and a woman kiss each other at the end of the movie. Edit
Under Imhotep's cloth, a thong is visible in a fair amount of scenes. Edit
In a scene early in the movie a woman walks around a room in a nightgown. Edit
On the boat scene camel toe is clearly visible. Edit
A woman has an affair with the antagonist. Edit
An Ancient Egyptian woman appears to wear only gold body paint and jewelry at the beginning of the movie. Buttocks are somewhat shown and partial breast nudity, but there is an opaque coverage over most of her breasts. Edit

Violence & Gore

Moderate 56 of 92 found this moderate Severity? None 1 Mild 17 Moderate 56 Severe 18 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
Rick punishes Beni. Tosses a chair at him, hitting him in the back. Slams Beni onto the wall and on a table, then threatens to cut his head open with a fan blade if Beni didn't give him answers. Edit
A man is stabbed in the back. The next scene shows the man being stabbed multiple times by two people. You see this behind a curtain where only the shadows are seen. Edit
Violence throughout. The various mummies, crazy-men, and zombie-like beings in this movie are shot, stabbed, blown apart, and set on fire, but no blood is present. Edit
In the beginning, a man has his tongue cut out and is mummified alive. Another man pours a jar full of scarabs in his sarcophagus and it's mentioned later that they slowly ate him alive. Edit
In an uncut version, a man is hung but he doesn't die; he is seen being strangled by the rope in a few instances. Edit
A booby trap in a tomb spits out salt acid on diggers who try to open it, they're seen screaming in pain as their skin melts. Edit
A mummy is seen after the first 25 minutes of the movie. He is shown dead and still looks dead as he goes around using people's flesh to bring him back to life. Kind of like an old classic horror movie (only much more gruesome). Edit
A man is shown with his eyes and his tongue cut out. Edit
The same man who had his eyes and tongue cut out later is shown without his flesh. Still, believe it or not, there is no blood. The same thing happens with three other men. Edit
A man has a scarab beetle crawl under his flesh. We hear him screaming in pain as a lump moves around under his skin. Edit
Imhotep's arm is chopped off, and he puts it back. Edit
Mild 70 of 99 found this mild Severity? None 11 Mild 70 Moderate 13 Severe 5 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
In a extended scene available as a seperate bonus feature on the home video releases, Rick O'Connell mutters the f-word when his wrist gets scratched by the pressurized salt acid that just killed the mummies attacking his party from the ground. Edit
Several uses of Damn, Hell, and God. Edit
1 use each of "Shit", "Balls" and "Sons of Bitches", and 2 uses each of "Ass" and "Bastard". Bloody is also used once or twice. Edit

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild 72 of 90 found this mild Severity? None 11 Mild 72 Moderate 5 Severe 2 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
The explorers drink and some smoke. Edit
A man discovers a bottle of whiskey and several characters share it, including a woman who becomes visibly tipsy, swaying and becoming rather loopy. Edit

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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The image of Imhotep might be frightening to some viewers. Edit
Rick gets hanged inside the prison. The prison warden even says that since his neck did not break, they would have to watch him strangle to death. Luckily, they cut the rope to set him free. Edit
There are several scenes of scarab beetles crawling under people's skin, which are really disgusting, and can easily make a person nauseous. Edit
The whole movie has a strangely dark tone, despite being labeled as a comedy. Some might find the fact that the main characters murder innocent people without any second thought quite disturbing. Edit
13+ Moderate Scary, Frightening Scenes and Violence. Edit

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Imhotep attacks Mr. Henderson gets killed his lungs and heart, intestines and stomach body fluids and decomposes. Edit
A man is eaten alive by scarab beetles (off-camera,not shown). We hear him screaming in agony as the beetles devour them. Edit

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The Mummy (2017) Parent Guide

This re-imagination of what amounts to a matinee monster movie remembers its heritage and doesn’t take itself too seriously..

The wrath of an ancient and evil princess (Sofia Boutella) is unleashed on the modern world when her tomb is uncovered by a couple of grave robbers (Tom Cruise Jake Johnson) and an archeologist (Annabelle Wallis). This new take on an old franchise also stars Russell Crowe.

Release date June 9, 2017

Run Time: 111 minutes

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Soldier of fortune Nick Morton (Tom Cruise), along with his partner Chris Vail (Jake Johnson) dig up more than they bargained for when they become distracted from their military duties in the Middle East. Inside a deep pit revealed after an air strike, the two treasure hunters discover an Egyptian sarcophagus sunk deep inside a pool of mercury. They are eager to get their hands on anything of value within the cavern, until their impulses are stopped short by the arrival of Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), a British archeologist and officer of Cultural Heritage.

Despite her concern for the preservation of historic artifacts, Nick uses his pistol to move along their investigation of the rare find. The impulsive bullet unwittingly sets in motion a series of events that awaken Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), an ancient Egyptian princess who’s hopes of being pharaoh were dashed when her father finally had a son. Getting a second chance for power thanks to Nick’s reckless shot, the bandaged seductress promises him special considerations. It’s a favor Nick has no choice but to accept, even though it comes with a curse and her ability to manipulate his mind.

Of course, Nick and Jenny are not about to let her achieve her goal without a fight. Jenny even pulls in her boss (Russel Crowe) and his team of minions for reinforcements. The conflict that ensues is full of roaring, screaming and disturbing digital imagery. Ahmanet’s ability to suck the life out of others (leaving them looking like sun dried tomatoes), or bring life back to the dead (depicted as decaying corpses) enables her to assemble a group of zombie helpers. And dealing with immortal beings in the movies always comes down to who can hit or knock the other against stone walls the hardest. This gives Cruise ample opportunity to remind us he works out occasionally. Fortunately, the violence remains as unbelievable as the story, with no blood or explicit details.

Other concerning content includes some silhouetted nudity and sensual moments seen during depictions of Ahmanet’s ritual with the god of death and her seduction of a chosen male partner. Nick is also caught clothes-less, but no private body parts are seen. And some mild and moderate profanities are heard throughout.

An impressive re-imagination of what amounts to the matinee monster movie, The Mummy remembers its heritage and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Cruise and company do their best to maintain a balance between the end-of-the-world mayhem and a recognition that their impending doom should also be fun. And, for the most part, it is a popcorn-worthy adventure that may appeal to both teens and adults.

On the downside, too many scenes are wrapped up in a barrage of CGI effects that, along with a pounding musical score, prevent us from engaging with the performers and caring about whether they live or die. Come to think about it, such issues don’t really matter because you’ll most certainly get another chance to revisit this Tom Cruise vehicle when it resurrects in a promised sequel. Title guess? I’m betting The Mummy Returns… Again .

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Why is The Mummy (2017) rated PG-13? The Mummy (2017) is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for violence, action and scary images, and for some suggestive content and partial nudity.

Violence: Pervasive violent depiction throughout include weapon use, explosions, hand-to-hand fighting and crushing blows. Characters are also attacked by spiders, birds and rats. Supernatural events are depicted, such as a ritual with the god of death that involves bloodletting (briefly shown), an attempted human sacrifice, corpses being raised from the dead, and characters having the life sucked from their bodies. This results in many disturbing images, ghoulish transformations and zombie-like characters. Immortal and indestructible characters are portrayed. A character talks about hurting others, and instruments for such acts are shown. Characters are injured and killed, electrocuted and blown-up, drowned and gouged, shot and stabbed – some blood and detail are shown. A character slits the throat of a man and kills a baby. A character is shot with darts and harpoons, is then bound, chained, tortured and references are later made to having done a dissection of her body.

Sexual Content:

Sexual relations between a man and woman are discussed. A woman involved in an evil ritual is seen naked from the back and side, with details obscured. A woman seductively straddles a man (this is shown several times) and uses her sex appeal to manipulate men. A naked man, in a non-sexual context, is seen with private body parts carefully covered. Embracing and kissing are shown. Sexual references and innuendo are heard.

A couple of moderate profanities are uttered, and mild swear words and terms of deity are used.

Alcohol / Drug Use:

A character drinks heavily in a bar. Alcohol is offered to a distressed man who drinks it gratefully. A character injects himself with a mysterious medicine.

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The Mummy (2017) Parents' Guide

Nick’s confesses to being a thief, yet he takes offense when someone calls him a liar. Why does he make distinctions between the sorts of immoral behavior he engages in? If a person is dishonest – they are dishonest, so does it really matter where he/she draw the lines? Why do we sometimes try to defend our actions by classifying some behavior as worse than others? Although subtler, how does Jenny also do this?

A couple of characters in this film are depicted as dark heroes – meaning that even though they have an evil side to their character, they also have a good side. How do you feel about these kinds of conflicted depictions? How do they compare with other heroes that always fight for right? Which of these personalities do you feel you relate to? Why?

The mummy Ahmanet is depicted as irredeemable because of her desire for power. What other characters in the movie want control as well? Why are we more sympathetic to their plights or reasons for wanting power?

News About "The Mummy (2017)"

From the Studio: Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension. Written by Universal Pictures

The most recent home video release of The Mummy (2017) movie is September 12, 2017. Here are some details…

Home Video Notes: The Mummy Release Date: 12 September 2017 The Mummy releases to home video (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD) with the following supplements: - Deleted and Extended Scenes - Cruise & Kurtzman: A Conversation Rooted in Reality - Tom Cruise and Alex Kurtzman discuss the making of The Mummy. - Rooted in Reality - Filmmakers and cast reveal how they broke away from old tropes and traditions to create a dynamic and realistic 21st century monster movie. - Life in Zero-G: Creating the Plane Crash - Watch Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, and the crew shoot the incredible plane sequence. - Meet Ahmanet - Sofia Boutella shares the excitement of reinventing a monster icon. Cruise in Action - A behind-the-scenes look at Tom Cruise’s most memorable Mummy stunts. - Becoming Jekyll and Hyde - Find out how the casting of Russell Crowe brought a bold new dimension to the roles of Jekyll and Hyde. - Choreographed Chaos - Watch as cast and filmmakers create an epic outdoors clash between ancient and modern worlds. - Nick Morton: In Search of a Soul - Tom Cruise describes what drew him to play a man seemingly without a soul. - Ahmanet Reborn Animated Graphic Novel - Witness Ahmanet’s descent into the monstrous underworld as she is reborn into the Goddess of Chaos and Wrath. - Feature Commentary with director and producer Alex Kurtzman, and cast members Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis and Jake Johnson

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The Mummy (2017) Review

Time: 110 Minutes Age Rating: Contains supernatural themes & violence Cast: Tom Cruise as Nick Morton Annabelle Wallis as Jennifer Halsey Sofia Boutella as Princess Ahmanet/The Mummy Jake Johnson as Sergeant Chris Vail Courtney B. Vance as Colonel Greenway Marwan Kenzari as Malik Javier Botet as Set Russell Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll Director: Alex…

Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) is a soldier of fortune who plunders ancient sites for timeless artefacts and sells them to the highest bidder. When Nick and his partner (Jake Johnson) come under attack in the Middle East, the ensuing battle accidentally unearths Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), a betrayed Egyptian princess who was entombed under the desert for thousands of years. With her powers constantly evolving, Morton must now stop the resurrected monster as she embarks on a furious rampage through the streets of London.

I had no idea what to expect from The Mummy. It looked entertaining and I was curious about this ‘Dark Universe’ that they are creating, where all of Universal’s monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde, etc) exist in the same universe. However the movie didn’t look spectacular. Even though a lot of people really didn’t like The Mummy, I saw it out of morbid curiosity, something I’ve been doing a lot recently and once again I was pleasantly surprised. This is by no means a great movie, the writing isn’t the strongest, you’ve seen this type of movie before. But the film is entertaining, and not in a guilty pleasure way, I found the movie very enjoyable and it’s starting to get me on board with this unique universe that they are creating.

This movie is at a good runningtime, 1 hours and 50 minutes. It’s difficult to be bored, it is paced well, it doesn’t linger too long on scenes unnecesarily. This movie does 2 things, the story with The Mummy and also the development of the Dark Universe with this group called Prodigium, led by Russell Crowe’s Dr Henry Jeykll (yes, as in Jeykll and Hyde). I thought both were done well and worked together well. The Mummy storyline did enough to keep me interested, while the Dark Universe universe building got me on board with… whatever Universal are trying to do. Some of the writing does feel rather familiar, and a little cliché but I could get past it. Also, the third act does take a different direction which I really liked, it was a decision that I didn’t expect them to do and I’m even more intrigued to see where this will play in part with the Dark Universe. Tonally this movie isn’t always consistent. I’m not referring to the action and horror aspects, that was surprisingly balanced well. I’m talking about the comedic moments, during a big action scene or an intense horror scene, a joke might suddenly pop up and it often feels out of place. Then again it didn’t help that a lot of the humour wasn’t that good in the first place. Now as for the changes that the movie has made from the original Mummy (the horror movie, not the Brendan Frasier movies), I have no idea what it’s like as I haven’t seen it. It’s probably not very true to the original though, this movie is going on its own direction, and I was actually fine with that.

Tom Cruise is pretty good in this movie. However I do feel like he might’ve been slightly miscast, maybe that’s the writing though. I have the feeling that the character was meant to be a bit darker but either Cruise couldn’t express that (which he could, he’s shown in other films he can) or the writing wasn’t great enough. Russell Crowe is in this movie as Dr Henry Jekyl, he’s a big tie to the other movies in this Dark Universe. While I would’ve like to have seen more of him he was great. And yes, Dr Jeykll does have a Mr Hyde side, and that was so great to see. The supporting actors are fine, Jake Johnson is okay but his character really didn’t need to be in the movie. Annabelle Wallis is good in the movie, however the chemistry between her and Cruise didn’t always work as well as I think the filmmakers wanted it to. Sofia Boutella was great as the Mummy/Ahmanet. Most of the acting is physical and doesn’t have her deliver a lot of lines but she pulls it off excellently. She also does have great chemistry with Cruise.

I’ve not seen anything from director Alex Kurtzman until now, he did a pretty good job with this movie. The CGI isn’t spectacular, you’ve seen it before but it’s solid enough. The action sequences are very entertaining. There wasn’t really anything directionwise that I found particularly wrong with the movie. It’s just that it’s nothing that you haven’t seen before.

The Mummy was a lot better than I expected it to be. I was consistently entertained throughout with the solid direction, Cruise, Boutella and Crowe. The idea of the Dark Universe is still odd to me, it’s still not clear how the movies will tie in together and how much of a role the characters in this movie will play a part in the other movies. Still, The Mummy does enough to get me interested in these future movies, while being pretty decent itself as a movie.

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By now you’ve probably read a number of scathing reviews of “The Mummy,” Universal’s inaugural entry in a possibly grievously ill-advised “Dark Universe” franchise, wherein the legendary studio intends to reboot its most Famous Monsters of Filmland. Perhaps I’m becoming jaded in my old age, but I was more amused than appalled.

Don’t get me wrong. “The Mummy,” directed (if that’s what you want to call it; I honestly think the better term here is “ostensibly overseen on behalf of the studio executives”) by Alex Kurtzman from a script by David Koepp , Christopher McQuarrie , and Dylan Kussman , has plenty to get irritated about. I got sand in my synapses during an early scene in which Tom Cruise , as a looter named Nick Morton (oh, “Mort,” I get it now), and his sidekick, played by Jake Johnson , casually slaughter a bunch of “Iraqi insurgents” trying to track down a mysterious treasure. Oh, sure, filmmakers, by all means use a tragic and unnecessary war that’s still yielding horrific consequences for the world as the backdrop for your stupid horror movie plot machinations, no problem here.

And, of course, there’s the movie’s very old-school sexism. "The Mummy" has two female characters: One is corrupt albeit not unattractive ancient Egyptian royal Ahmanet, who, once freed from her tomb in the present day, is the incarnation of all evil and stuff. (She is played by Sofia Boutella , whose filmography testifies that she’s accustomed to being ill-used in motion pictures). The other is faux-archeologist/genuine anti-evil secret agent Jenny ( Annabelle Wallis ) who’s mainly around to be rescued by Nick, and whose surface venality suggests that his business card describes him as a “lovable rogue.”

So yes, should one choose to take offense, one certainly may. But I have to be honest—speaking of venality, I found something almost admirable about the film’s cheek. It’s amazingly relentless in its naked borrowing from other, better horror and sci-fi movies that I was able to keep occupied making a checklist of the movies referenced. At its opening, remnants of a past civilization are discovered while workmen are tunneling underground for a new subway route. That’s from “Quatermass and the Pit,” aka “Five Million Miles to Earth.” As many other reviewers have noted, once Jake Johnson’s character buys in and is reborn as a wisecracking undead sidekick warning Nick about how he’s been cursed by incarnation-of-evil Ahmanet, it’s “American Werewolf in London” time, albeit with PG-13-rated special effects rather than the side of ketchup-dipped corned beef that fell from Griffin Dunne ’s face in the earlier movie. What else? A woman whose kiss drains the life force out of those who receive it, from the wacky space-vampire movie “Lifeforce”? Check. A brain-draining insect in the ear from “Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan”? Check. Spavined slapstick undead assaulters out of “ Evil Dead ”? Check. Underwater fights with the undead out of Lucio Fulci ’s “Zombie”? Check. (These too are toned down considerably from the source material.) Someone saying “Plans?” with the precise intonation Sir Ralph Richardson used in “ Tales from the Crypt ”? Also check. Don’t even get me started on the, um, appropriation of a famous line from the Universal monster movie “ Bride of Frankenstein .” But that’s life, and that movie literally IS Universal’s property.

There have been a lot of crocodile tears already shed about the fact that The Mighty Tom Cruise has allowed himself to be used in such dreck, and also that Russell Crowe has been compelled to continue to sink into a form of self-parody by appearing as the head of Jenny’s anti-evil agency, a character named Dr. Henry Jekyll, and yeah, it’s the same guy. Or some iteration of the same guy. As it happens, Dr. Jekyll was never one of the Universal Studios monsters, but the character IS in the public domain, so I guess the corporate overlords of the Dark Universe figured “what the you-know-what.”

Anyway, I cannot feel too aggrieved for either star. As Richard Harris and Richard Burton found out for themselves many years before Crowe came along, there comes a time in the career of every loose-cannon macho actor where the any-port-in-a-financial-year-storm approach to career management is all for the best. As for Cruise, he is known for his try-anything-once sense of cinematic adventure, and he does like his franchises. The Morton character is admittedly more of a callow nothingburger than any he’s played. And given how the movie ends I’m a little disappointed that he wasn’t named Larry Talbot. But who knows, maybe he’ll be obliged to change it for the next installment. Which I am looking forward to, out of nothing but base curiosity.

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The Mummy (2017)

Rated PG-13 for violence, action and scary images, and for some suggestive content and partial nudity.

110 minutes

Tom Cruise as Nick Morton

Sofia Boutella as Princess Ahmanet / The Mummy

Annabelle Wallis as Jenny Halsey

Jake Johnson as Sgt. Vail

Courtney B. Vance as Colonel Gideon Forster

Russell Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll

Alex Kurtzman

Writer (screen story by)

Jon Spaihts
Jenny Lumet
David Koepp
Christopher McQuarrie
Dylan Kussman

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Ben Seresin
Paul Hirsch
Gina Hirsch
Andrew Mondshein

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The Mummy (2017)

Certificate: 15

Starring: Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella

Release date: 2017

The first film from Universal’s Dark Universe – a 21st century revival of old 1930s Universal Pictures characters like The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, Van Helsing, Dracula, Wolf Man and pals in a series of movies – The Mummy should have been a sure-fire success.

It’s got Tom Cruise in the lead role, Russell Crowe as Dr Henry Jekyll (yes, that Dr Jekyll) and a new twist to the Mummy legend (this time round she’s a woman). However, it’s also got a terrible script (possibly because it was written by not one but six screenwriters), leaden plotting, and about as much excitement and scares as an episode of Teletubbies.

A dull prologue about tombs being found under London during the Crossrail excavations doesn’t inspire much in the way of tension, and things (including any expectations that the film will be watchable) go speedily downhill from there.

In Ancient Egypt, power-mad princess Ahmanet (Boutella) practices some dark magic, murders her father, stepmother and baby brother but is caught before she can complete a ritual that will turn her lover into a god. She’s mummified alive and stays that way until the present day when idiot reconnaissance soldier Nick (Cruise) and his comic relief pal Chris (Jake Johnson) explode a hole in a Middle Eastern street (don’t ask) and reveal her tomb. Egyptologist Jenny Halsey (Wallis) knows this is a significant find, but even she can’t predict that Ahmanet will come back to life and pursue Nick, stalker style, after deciding he is her chosen one.

Unfortunately, Nick is so unlikeable that you don’t care whether Ahmanet sucks the life out of him or not, and it doesn’t help that most of the action takes place in dimly lit churches, tunnels and crypts. A monster who draws the lifeforce from people and turns them into zombies (that can run, swim, and look ready to dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller) would be more frightening if we could actually clearly see what is going on – instead what we’ve got is a load of extras in decaying make-up and dodgy teeth fumbling around in the dark (perhaps they’re looking for the exit).

Even Russell Crowe’s enjoyable blathering on about the nature of evil isn’t gripping enough to make you care about what Ahmanet is up to. Instead you’ll gnash your teeth as the filmmakers shamelessly borrow from other movies (An American Werewolf In London being the most obvious, while a plane crash must surely have been put in after someone said in a meeting ‘we need to add something to remind people of Tom’s good movies, like Mission: Impossible’).

You’ll scratch your head trying to guess whether director Alex Kurtzman thought he was making a comedy, horror or adventure movie (it tries to be all three at different times but succeeds at none). And you’ll wonder just what Tom Cruise was thinking, wandering dazed and confused throughout (perhaps he’s looking for the exit, too) and delivering the worst performance of his career.

Is The Mummy (2017) suitable for kids? Here are our parents’ notes...

This is a 15 certificate film in the UK, and PG-13 in the US, and has those ratings for sustained threat and horror. Please note that children under the age of 15 will not be admitted to UK 15 certificate films, even with an adult.

Scenes that may upset sensitive viewers and younger children include:

The murder of Ahmanet’s family – while it is not graphic, some blood spurts onto her.

She sucks the life out of humans and turns them into zombies.

One character is killed, another is stabbed.

At one point, a swarm of rats covers Nick’s body.

Younger children (under 11) may also be scared by the plane crash.

Children under 13 may find the film too tense, simply because most of the action takes place in the dark so you keep expecting things to jump out at you.

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No one over the age of 10 ever confused them with good movies, but the “Mummy” franchise that kicked off in 1999 had a joyously sinister and farfetched eye-candy pizzazz. Basically, these were movies that pelted you with CGI — scuttling scarabs, swarms of skeletons in moldy rags — and mixed the cheesy/awesome visual onslaught with a handful of actors (Brendan Fraser, Dwayne Johnson) who seemed just as lightweight at the FX. So “ The Mummy ,” starring Tom Cruise , raises a key aesthetic question: How, exactly, do you reboot empty-calorie creature-feature superficiality?

The new “Mummy,” you may be surprised to hear, doesn’t have a whole lot of show-stopping visual flimflam up its sleeve. Instead, it’s built around a chancy big trick. I’ll herald this with a major spoiler alert (if you don’t want to know what happens in “The Mummy,” please stop reading), though it’s really the essential premise of the movie. Cruise, who is cast as Nick Morton, a freelance raider of artifacts he sells on the black market, isn’t just fighting evil — his character gets inhabited by evil. He is taken over by the spirit of Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), an ancient Egyptian princess who murdered her father, the Pharaoh, and his infant son, all so that she could lay claim to the throne. For her crime, she was mummified and buried alive. (Yes, she’s pissed off.)

The way her spirit merges with Nick’s remains a little vague, since it’s not as if Cruise turns into a frothing bad guy. He deals with the fact that he’s got evil inside him by treating it in a highly practical and energized fashion — as a problem to be solved. He’s Tom Cruise, dammit, and he’s not just going to stand by! He’s going to attack the issue. He’s going to fight it, debate it, stare it down, put it in its place, kick its ass, out-think it and out-run it, out-punch it and out-underwater-swim it.

All of which turns out to be a lot less fun than the stupid zappy “Mummy” movies of the ’00s. It’s not as if this one is all that smart, what with a plot that somehow squashes together the First Dynasty of Egypt, the Crusades, and the looting of Iraqi antiquities. Yet it does seem to be trying for something, and so, if you’re a Cruise fan (as I very much am), you roll with it. The flashes of Egyptian backstory are photographed (by Ben Seresin) with a yummy desert glow, and the Algerian actress Sofia Boutella, in black bangs and vertical rows of tattooed facial hieroglyphs, makes Ahmanet exotic in all the right ways, like something out of a Rihanna video. Then she shows up in contemporary London, along with Nick and Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), the comely archeologist who Nick slept with and whose life he saved. Ahmanet is now a mottled, gray-skinned mummy who gains energy by putting civilians in a lip-lock and literally sucking the life out of them, which reduces them to skeletal zombies who exist to do her bidding.

It’s here that you begin to divine the film’s basic strategy: It will grab ideas, motifs, and effects from almost any genre and jam them together, palming off its grab-bag quality as “originality.” Scene for scene, “The Mummy” has been competently staged by director Alex Kurtzman, who has one previous feature to his credit (the minor 2012 Chris Pine heart-tugger “People Like Us”) and has never made a special-effects film before. He knows how to visualize a spectacular plane crash, or how to play up the Dagger of Set — a mystical weapon of death that needs a giant ruby to complete it — so that it doesn’t seem as chintzy as something out of a “National Treasure” movie (which is basically what it is). Yet competence isn’t the same thing as style or vision. “The Mummy” is a literal-minded, bumptious monster mash of a movie. It keeps throwing things at you, and the more you learn about the ersatz intricacy of its “universe,” the less compelling it becomes.

Russell Crowe , cultivating an air of pompous malevolence, shows up in the opening scene, but it isn’t until later that we learn he’s playing Dr. Henry Jekyll — yes, that Henry Jekyll. Jekyll, it turns out, has to keep injecting his damaged hand with a regimen of drugs to avoid turning into Mr. Hyde, but watching all this the audience may be thinking: Whose bright idea was it to mix “The Mummy” with an entirely different formative horror story, as if the two could be cross-bred like some Famous Monsters of Filmland version of the Justice League?

The answer wouldn’t matter if “The Mummy” had the courage of its convictions…or the fun of its nonsense. But it falls right into a nether zone in between. The problem at its heart is that the reality of what the movie is — a Tom Cruise vehicle — is at war with the material. The actor, at 54, is still playing that old Cruise trope, the selfish cocky semi-scoundrel who has to grow up. Will Nick give in to Ahmanet, the malevolent temptress in her Bettie Page Egyptian hair? Or will he stay true to Jenny, the brainy angel of light? The trouble is that Cruise, at least in a high-powered potboiler like this one, is so devoted to maintaining his image as a clear and wholesome hero that his flirtation with the dark side is almost entirely theoretical. As Universal’s new “Dark Universe” (of which “The Mummy” is the first installment) unfolds, I wouldn’t hold my breath over which side is going to win, or how many more films it will take to play that out. It’s not just that there isn’t enough at stake (though there isn’t). It’s that the movie doesn’t seem to know how little at stake there is.

Reviewed at Regal E-Walk, New York, June 6, 2017. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 107 MIN.

Production: A Universal Pictures release of a Dark Universe, Perfect World Pictures in association with Secret Hideout, Conspiracy Factory, Sean Daniel Company production. Producers: Alex Kurtzman, Chris Morgan, Sean Daniel, Sarah Bradshaw. Executive producers: Jeb Brody, Robert Orci.
Crew: Director: Alex Kurtzman. Screenplay: David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie, Dylan Kussman. Camera (color, widescreen): Ben Seresin. Editors: Gina Hirsch, Paul Hirsch, Andrew Mondshein.
With: Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Marwan Kenzari, Simon Atherton, Stephen Thompson.

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I'd give 4 stars if there was a sequel, why all the hate, new style but isn't very good., tom cruise stars in action-packed classic monster movie reboot, is not for young tweens, the mummy (2017).

The Mummy Review

Talk about sinking before you can swim. The Mummy progresses at a ferocious pace, meaning you're never able to settle into the film. But the summer blockbuster doesn't just trip up over itself -- it might have flattened the intended Universal's Dark Universe in the process.

The zip to The Mummy is its most redeeming feature, as it means there's always something new to contend with, which you briefly hope will save the overall proceedings. But, at the same time, this hurried pace also means that anything worth paying attention to is immediately moved past.

Let's get the basics out of the way before we delve in to the negatives. Tom Cruise leads the charge as Nick Morgan, who stumbles upon the hidden tomb of Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) in modern day Iraq. That only leads to chaos, as over 2,000 years ago, Princess Ahmanet allowed dark forces to take over her body. In attempt to rule Egypt, she murdered her baby brother, father, and step-mother, only to be caught and then mummified alive.

Nick Morgan, archeologist Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), Morgan's partner Sergeant Chris Valli ( Jake Johnson ), and U.S. Army Colonel Greenway (Courtney B. Vance) try to transport the sarcophagus back to London, only for some supernatural activities to scupper their progress. Those left alive ultimately meet up with Dr. Henry Jekyll ( Russell Crowe ), and the mysterious organization known as Prodigium, which keeps tabs on the world's Gods and Monsters, while also occasionally trying to keep the Mummy from wreaking havoc, as well.

The Mummy's set up, particularly the immediate dynamics and patter between Nick, Jenny and Chris, as well as just how quickly it gets into the thrust of its plot, actually suggests that the film could be a swift and playful blockbuster. Unfortunately, it's those same blockbuster elements that The Mummy fails to deliver on. Looking at Alex Kurtzman 's resume as a writer, which includes co-scribing Transformers and Star Trek , it's understandable that all of the action beats are there, and they arrive on cue in a relatively smooth fashion. Kurtzman only has a "story by" credit on The Mummy , though, and his main job requirement is as a director, a position with which he badly struggles.

While the opening unfolds without incident, as The Mummy's plot and its characters are established in a solid enough manner, issues soon arrive with the movie's first set-piece: a devastating attack on an airplane that has been in all of the trailers and commercials. Again, it is not overly terrible, but considering a terrifying plane crash is being depicted that features the craft being ripped apart, it is also nowhere near gripping enough. Which is quite a feat, considering that the final shot of the plane smashing down to the ground is undeniably audacious. There's just no build to the sequence, while its most impressive element, which sees Cruise and Wallis struggling in zero-gravity, is both poorly captured and immediately glossed over.

Things quickly nosedive from there, as the film tries to juggle too many balls. Tom Cruise is bizarrely guided by an apparition. We get a feel for just how terrifying Sofia Boutella's Mummy could be, but don't see enough of it, other than her kissing/sucking the life out of unsuspecting London police officers. And finally, The Mummy then goes all Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice on us by shoe-horning Russell Crowe's Dr. Henry Jekyll into the film. At this point, the vague teases at the impending Dark Universe immediately start to weigh what was already a flimsy enough film down completely. Considering that Russell Crowe and Tom Cruise are two of the most imposing screen presences of the last two decades, their combined presence on screen feels shockingly underwhelming, too, while it doesn't help matters that the titular creature in the film spends pretty much the entire second act indisposed, which grinds the film to a halt.

The Mummy's final act far from rectifies matters, though. Instead, it is stagnant, predictable, and even confusing, while Alex Kurtzman's direction is blotchy, as you constantly either feel lost in the scene, completely uninterested, or are taken out of the film by an easy exit or outcome. Universal always knew that they were taking a risk hiring Alex Kurtzman to direct a $125 million blockbuster as his sophomore effort, especially considering his debut outing was the romantic drama People Like Us . While Patty Jenkins and Wonder Woman are proof that this trust can pay off, The Mummy is sadly the opposite.

It also doesn't help matters that the trailers for The Mummy have basically shown off all of its main action sequences, meaning you know what to expect and what's still to come as the film begins to fall in on itself. Not even the impressive ensemble can salvage too much, as the dynamics that were teased at the beginning quickly dissolve. Tom Cruise is left floundering, Jake Johnson is completely wasted, and Russell Crowe's involvement feels pointless. Only Annabelle Wallis and Sofia Boutella come out of the proceedings a step up. Considering that she shares most of her scenes with Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis is never overshadowed and more than holds her own. And as with her role in Kingsman: The Secret Service , Sofia Boutella is able to convey so much with so little, and has an alluring yet dangerous screen presence.

That's obviously nowhere near enough to salvage efforts, though, and considering its intentions, The Mummy doesn't deliver the action to enthrall, the comedy to entertain, the horror to unsettle, or the adventure to captivate, meaning that it's a failure on all fronts. We'll just have to wait and see whether it is so catastrophic that it has already rendered the Dark Universe dead on arrival.

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The Mummy Reviews

It's all here: ancient curses, an embalmed high priest, two rival parties searching for archaeological treasure and dashing legionnaire Brendan Fraser romancing prim librarian Rachel Weisz.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2024

... plenty of 1930s style, humor, and attitude (including a decidedly dated sense of cultural sensitivity), more Indiana Jones than Gothic horror.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2023

Despite a few grisly concepts (obscured by PG-13 constraints), the mostly ineffective stabs at humor continue, rather incessantly, to drown out the action and horror.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 16, 2020

I think this movie is legit one of the best movies

Full Review | Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

It's a silly campy ripoff of Indiana Jones. I love this movie!

Far more ambitious than its predecessors but a notch or two below the unique event-movie experience it might have been.

Full Review | May 12, 2020

A masterful adventure film. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Feb 27, 2020

It's passable entertainment, but it'll likely leave you wanting more.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 27, 2020

'The Mummy' ingenuously combines adventure with parody, a hint of horror, the dynamic plasticity of animation and excellent use of the special effects. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2020

Great date film, great group film... it's a diversion flick, so sit back and enjoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 26, 2020

It's really a movie for everyone. Maybe not mummies.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2020

All of the leads are really charismatic which is what you need in a movie like this.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2019

[Evelyn's] curiosity is what eggs the plot on, and while Rick is certainly the hero, he's also technically just her muscle.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2019

A rousing adventure piece, a thrilling a romper that brings to mind 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and King Kong.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 31, 2018

The Mummy has a lot of heart.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2018

At its best, a film that is considerably worse at Raiders of the Lost Ark in doing many of the same things.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2017

Simply everything fits into place, with Fraser leading a great cast and assuming his role of a modern Indiana Jones, to a villain who you really have to take seriously. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 9, 2017

A raucous and entertaining action horror entry with great performances, and a vicious villain.

Full Review | Nov 1, 2014

Written and directed by Stephen Sommers, The Mummy would like to make you shudder, but it tries to do so without ever letting go of its jocular inconsequentiality.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

The Mummy (2017)

I have never seen a movie work harder or more hopelessly than Universal’s new The Mummy , not merely to launch a new franchise, but to jump from a standing start into a full-blown Marvel-style shared cinematic universe in one go. Even Batman v Superman , as hard as it worked to get within striking distance of Justice League , at least had Man of Steel to build on. ( The Mummy was originally supposed to build on Dracula Untold , just as Kong: Skull Island was a prequel to Godzilla , but that idea was staked through the heart.)

Another thing Batman v Superman had going for it was that the DC universe is well-established, much-rebooted terrain, so there’s a lot to draw on. If you want the Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and all the other Universal Studios monsters all baked into the same narrative pie, you’re working from scratch, and to do that you must first create the universe.

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Moral/spiritual value, age appropriateness, mpaa rating, caveat spectator.

Or you could just do what Kong: Skull Island did, and what The Mummy also does, which is steal from Marvel’s template. Both films include covert S.H.I.E.L.D.-type organizations as the hub of their universal premise, only instead of recruiting superheroes they investigate monsters. In the “MonsterVerse” of Kong there’s a government agency called Monarch (introduced in Godzilla ). In the “Dark Universe” of The Mummy it’s a private operation called Prodigium run by Russell Crowe as Universal’s answer to Nick Fury, Dr. Henry Jekyll. Yes, that Dr. Jekyll — and he plays the other guy too, so he is also kind of the Dark Universe’s answer to Bruce Banner. Both films also drop Easter eggs promising, or threatening, characters we haven’t seen yet. Kong drops hints of Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah. The Mummy offers relics hinting at Dracula and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. I saw no relics of Frankenstein’s monster or the Wolf Man. If there were any Invisible Man relics, how would we know?

If you’re having trouble telling them apart, just remember: The MonsterVerse is where the building-sized monsters live, and the Dark Universe is where the human-sized monsters live. If you’re still having trouble remembering, why are you trying to remember in the first place?

Alarmingly, The Mummy is the third would-be cinematic big bang in as many months, after King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and Kong: Skull Island (even if Kong doesn’t quite count). The shared universes are multiplying faster and faster, like inflationary multiverse theory. We must just hope a big crunch is coming to Hollywood, and the sooner the better. Of the recent big-bang movies, The Mummy , directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by a committee that includes David Koepp and Christopher McQuarrie, is the feeblest and most exhausted. Yes, even feebler than King Arthur , which was at least occasionally livened by Guy Ritchie’s trademark flashback/flash-forward set-piece storytelling. The Mummy is not livened by anything at all, except perhaps Crowe, who sparkles briefly as an ambiguously affable Jekyll. Even the redoubtable Tom Cruise seems lost as a boringly written opportunist, boringly named Nick Morton — a directionless character in a directionless movie.

It’s not so much that The Mummy is a bad movie as that it’s hardly a movie at all. It’s a pastiche of genre elements — a blend of horror, action, comedy and romance of the sort that was done reasonably successfully in the 1999 Brendan Frasier version, though this film is almost never scary, exciting or funny, and never, ever romantic — buried under an avalanche of plot and world-building. When the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out 10 years ago, I coined the term “ mythology-bound ” to describe how franchises tend over time to become overwhelmed by the growing complexity of too many rules, institutions, characters, back story and so forth. Sometimes, as with The Matrix Reloaded , this can happen as early as the second film. Now we have a depressing new phenomenon: movie universes that come mythology pre-bound , launched by films aspiring so earnestly to the condition of middle-aged franchises that they begin with middle-aged spread and then try to backfill the bones and brains.

The Mummy is so eager to bring us up to speed that within the first five minutes or so Crowe’s Jekyll is explaining to us the occult origins of our mummy, Sofia Boutella’s Princess Ahmanet, and how she came to be mummified alive and elaborately buried in Iraq 1,000 miles or so from the ancient Egyptian capital city of Memphis. This might be the worst possible opening. On the one hand, it destroys the sense of mystery and suspense of a cold modern-day opening, like the 1932 original starring Boris Karloff. On the other hand, it lacks the dramatic and emotional connective tissue possible with a real prologue backstory, like the 1999 version (no masterpiece, but at least it told a story). The upshot is that Ahmanet’s story as it’s told to us is neither cogent nor mysterious. We’re told that the beautiful but cunning and ruthless Princess Ahmanet was first in line to her father’s throne until he sired a male heir. Pop quiz: Realizing that “power is not given, it must be taken,” does Ahmanet decide to:

If you guessed c , you are correct. The question is, why not just a ? The whole unholy covenant thing is a drastic escalation; what exactly does it do for her plans? I can think of ways to answer this question, but if the filmmakers don’t care, why should I?

Ahmanet’s sarcophagus is found buried in a hidden underground chamber carved from solid rock, immersed in a pool of mercury (which apparently has special evil-countering properties), surrounded by an array of traps and chains, flanked by guardian images ominously facing inward rather than outward. Archaeologist Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), assessing these clues, comes up with an ominous conclusion that … we already knew: It isn’t a tomb, but a prison. That line could have had some punch, if we had started here and not with the Jekyll flashback business. Would you be amazed if, in spite of the extreme importance of keeping that sarcophagus immersed in that pool of mercury, it turned out that there were chains connected to a system of counterweights designed to dredge it up if the right chain were broken? My 16-year-old son, ranting about this afterward, said it was like a deathtrap “designed by Doofenshmirtz.” If you don’t know what this means, you have a great discovery ahead of you . There is even a mummy in the theme song and in one episode, and every single episode is much better than this film.

The movie has more issues than I could catalogue — I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned the slain character who becomes a chill, chatty corpse à la American Werewolf in London — but I’d like to look briefly at what we can say so far about the religious dimension of the Dark Universe.

That’s because God is all over this universe — in reverse silhouette, conspicuously present by his absence.

The movie opens with a title card borrowing from the 1932 original: “Death is but the doorway to new life. We live today. We shall live again.” The very first image is a glimpse of medieval Crusader knights, complete with red crosses on their tunics, chanting in Spooky Latin as they bury one of their own in a hidden crypt along with a red jewel that will turn out to be important later. The Crusaders bring another important artifact to England hidden in a reliquary, which is discovered by Ahmanet in an abandoned church. (A mystical pagan artifact in a reliquary?) Ahmanet chooses this church as the site for an unholy ritual, and in the ensuing action the church is smashed up a bit. We first meet Nick and his Army buddy Chris (Jake Johnson) in Iraq, where they are focused on looting antiquities before they get demolished by violent iconoclastic insurgents. So, by implication, Islam as well as Christianity is part of this world. Finally, we have the Egyptian deity Set, here explicitly identified by Jekyll with Satan or Lucifer (much as Wonder Woman effectively turned Ares into a Lucifer figure).

Perhaps most intriguingly, when Jenny says something in ancient Egyptian to Ahmanet about the “old gods,” Ahmanet replies scornfully, “The old gods?” Then she taunts Jenny with the mysteries of the afterlife, promising her that she’ll learn the truth when Ahmanet kills her. Jenny appears to take for granted that the “old gods” have been displaced, at least historically and culturally, by another. Assuming sequels are made, will they continue to be about characters who fight demonic evil in a world marked by belief in one God without bringing God into it? Will the Dark Universe Dracula be repelled by crosses, holy water and the Blessed Sacrament? Will the Dark Universe perhaps go the route of some of the Hammer films, in which only a cross wielded by a true believer repels vampires? Will the question simply not come up? (I didn’t see Dracula Untold , but it seems the cross did its usual thing there.)

I can’t hate The Mummy or be angry at it — it doesn’t rise to that level — but there is one twist that sort of offended me, in the same sort of quasi-sacrilegious way as the shattering of Gandalf’s staff in the extended edition of The Return of the King . (I’m pleased to note that this point was called out by at least one other critic, Stephen Whitty of NJ.com .) This was not Ahmanet smashing the head of an angel statue to retrieve something inside, or some such thing. It was the late-breaking revelation that Ahmanet — who has the power to command the corpses of those whose life-essence she drains from their bodies — is also able to summon the Crusader knights from their sarcophagi and bend them to her will. (As in the 1999 film, the mummy’s dessicated frame becomes more presentable with each life taken.)

The image of the corpses of Christian knights kneeling to Ahmanet is just wrong. These aren’t her corpses, and she should have no power over them. “Wouldn’t Crusaders rise up against a pagan ruler?” Whitty muses. Wouldn’t that have been awesome?

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By A.O. Scott

June 7, 2017

You’ve no doubt been told that if you can’t say something nice, you shouldn’t say anything at all. If I followed that rule, I’d be unemployed. But still. There’s no great joy in accentuating the negative. So I will say this in favor of “The Mummy”: It is 110 minutes long. That is about 20 minutes shorter than “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” about which I had some unkind things to say a couple of weeks ago. Simple math will tell you how much better this movie is than that one. If you have no choice but to see it — a circumstance I have trouble imagining — you can start in on your drinking that much sooner.

“The Mummy” begins with a supposed Egyptian proverb to the effect that “we” never really die; “we” assume new forms and keep right on living. I’m not an Egyptologist, but it seems just as likely that those words were lifted from a movie-studio strategy memo. Universal, lacking a mighty superhero franchise, has gone into its intellectual-property files, which are full of venerable monsters, and created a commercial agglomeration it calls the Dark Universe . “The Mummy” is the first of a slew — a swarm? a pestilence? — of features reviving those old creatures, including the one from the Black Lagoon. We can also look forward to new visits from Frankenstein’s monster and his bride, the Wolf Man and the Invisible Man, among others.

It sounds like fun. The “Mummy” reboot from 1999 , directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, was kind of fun. Monster movies frequently are. This one, directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Tom Cruise, is an unholy mess. Mr. Cruise plays Nick Morton, a jaunty military daredevil with a sideline in antiquities theft and a nutty sidekick (Jake Johnson). When a caper goes wrong, the two call in an airstrike on an Iraqi village — I guess that’s something people are doing for kicks nowadays — and a mysterious tomb is unearthed. Luckily, an archaeologist, Dr. Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), is on hand to explain what it’s all about and also to affirm Nick’s heterosexuality.

Long story short: An ancient evil has been unleashed upon the world. Its agent is a long-buried pharaoh’s daughter, Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), who is covered with mysterious tattoos and convinced that Nick is her secret lover, or the god of death, or both. She gets inside his head, which is awkward both because he’s kind of sweet on Jenny and because it’s such an empty place. Ahmanet also has a retinue of zombielike minions at her disposal, who rampage through England on their way to a meeting with Russell Crowe.

Mr. Crowe plays another fixture in the Dark Universe, a label that strikes me as a bit of an exaggeration. Dim Universe would be more accurate, with respect both to the murky, ugly images and to the intellectual capacities of the script, written and conceived by a bunch of people who are capable of better. The old black-and-white Universal horror movies were a mixed bag, but they had some imagination. They could be creepy or campy, weird or lyrical. “The Mummy” gestures — or flails — in a number of directions but settles into the dreary 21st-century action-blockbuster template. There’s chasing and fighting, punctuated by bouts of breathless explaining and a few one-liners that an archaeologist of the future might tentatively decode as jokes.

There is a vague notion that Nick is struggling with dueling impulses toward good and evil, acting out his version of the Jekyll-Hyde predicament. A more interesting movie might have involved a similar struggle within Ahmanet, but a more interesting movie was not on anybody’s mind.

It will be argued that this one was made not for the critics but for the fans. Which is no doubt true. Every con game is played with suckers in mind.

The Mummy Rated PG-13. There’s a naked Egyptian in there somewhere. Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes.

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‘the mummy’: it’s time for tom cruise to act his age.

The ageless star has successfully spent years upping his action chops, but his latest movie shows there's an expiration date in sight for those roles.

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[Warning: This story contains minor spoilers for The Mummy .]

Even though he’s turning 55 next month, Tom Cruise seems ageless — and that’s partially by design. In the new film The Mummy , he stars as a man who may wind up (kind of) immortal; other recent films of his, like Edge of Tomorrow , play directly with the idea of death and life being intertwined. And only a few weeks ago, Cruise confirmed the long-gestating Top Gun sequel is speeding toward a production date; it’s not a sci-fi story, but the notion that Maverick will fly again, after over 30 years, reinforces that Cruise’s recent career choices are attempts to stay young.

Cruise has been marked by a boyish youthfulness in many of his roles in the last three-plus decades. Add to that the fact that his last few films include a number of examples of self-performed stunts, as if he’s trying to say he’s not too old to run around and play. In The Mummy , there’s a major set piece involving a plane spiraling out of control that was filmed inside a real plane as Cruise careens from one side of the plane’s cabin to the other. (It’s not nearly as dazzling as his climb up the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol , but then, what is?) Though it hasn’t always been the case, Cruise these days feels more comfortable running himself ragged to prove he hasn’t aged out of action movies yet.

So it makes sense for Cruise to make more science-fiction/genre films, which has been the case since he starred in Steven Spielberg’s incredible sci-fi noir Minority Report . Within the last five years, Cruise has doubled down on science fiction, with movies like the aforementioned Edge of Tomorrow and Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion . Notably, he’s largely chosen to move past more serious roles; American Made , Cruise’s next film, is a notable exception in which he’ll play a real-life figure — the first time since Bryan Singer’s Nazi drama Valkyrie . (Cruise is now nearly a decade older than Barry Seal, the man he plays in American Made , ever was.) Aside from that and the action-heavy The Last Samurai , Cruise has eschewed working on more “serious” projects in the last 15 years — a long cry from the era of Magnolia , Eyes Wide Shut and others.

Genre fare like The Mummy makes sense if the goal is for Cruise to try to stay perpetually young. Perhaps that’s why the Mission: Impossible series keeps going on and on. In advance of Ghost Protocol in 2011, the underlying presumption was that Cruise would pass the leading-man torch to his new co-star, Jeremy Renner. Instead, Renner is not even appearing in the upcoming sixth film, opening next summer. Within the Mission: Impossible series, Cruise pushing himself makes more sense; the series is synonymous with him, to a point where it would likely be much less appealing to watch an M:I film without Cruise’s Ethan Hunt.

In The Mummy , Cruise’s character, Nick Morton, an Army sergeant/treasure hunter, stumbles upon a mummy’s tomb and is almost instantly chosen as the human vessel for Set, the god of death. In the end, after much CGI-infused fighting, Nick is able to destroy the Mummy (Sofia Boutella), but not without first housing Set within his body. The film ends with Nick still searching for a way to break the curse, the sense being that he’ll battle with the forces of evil buried inside of him until he can cure himself. Of course, it’s really just an excuse to feed into the larger Dark Universe of Universal’s hopeful series of monster movies.

If there’s a clear hint that Cruise’s agelessness may have an expiration date, it’s in considering his female co-stars in some of these recent films : Olga Kurylenko and Andrea Riseborough in Oblivion , Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow and, now, Annabelle Wallis and Boutella in The Mummy . The last time Cruise’s female co-star was less than 10 years younger than him was back in 2005, when Miranda Otto, five years his junior, played his ex-wife in Spielberg’s War of the Worlds . (It should be noted that Otto’s in only a few scenes, unlike Blunt, Wallis, Boutella, Kurylenko, Riseborough or any of Cruise’s other female co-leads of recent memory.) Cruise is hardly the first male star to play opposite younger women, but the more he tries to stay the same age, the more obvious the age gap becomes and the less believable the repartee — a major problem for The Mummy , which tries and fails to build up Wallis and Cruise as a screwball-comedy-style couple.

The Mummy is, for various reasons, a weak beginning to the Dark Universe, what Universal would like to be a franchise on the same scale as the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the DC Extended Universe. Including Cruise lends the hopeful series an air of excitement, if only because of Cruise’s solid hits-to-misses ratio, even as he approaches the latter half of his 50s. The Mission: Impossible series remains one of the great modern action franchises after 20 years, for example. But the more Cruise tries to stay young, the clearer it becomes that he needs to move to the next stage of his career, to embrace his senior status next to younger stars.

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‘A wholly unnecessary reboot’: Russell Crowe in The Mummy.

The Mummy review – cursed by cliche

O f all the mouldering franchise corpses to reanimate, The Mummy is probably the one that is least open to new ideas. Certain plot elements are immutable. There will be sand, lashed into a frenzy somewhere around the first act climax. There will be cocky adventurers whose greed will blind them to danger until the point when it is chewing their faces off. There will be some kind of significant amulet, in this case a sacrificial dagger that should have been used on this project long before the CGI knob-twiddlers got their hands on the first green-screen action sequence. And there will be an ancient evil whose wrath has festered during the centuries it has spent interred.

For this wholly unnecessary reboot of the series, the film-makers have called upon an Egyptian plague of slightly ropey special effects and a handful of A-list stars. Tom Cruise is Nick Morton, a treasure-hunting American soldier who finds himself chosen to be the mate of Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), a patricidal demon princess. And Russell Crowe takes a role that has been cannibalised from an entirely different property – he plays Dr Jekyll, now rebranded as the leader of a covert band of renegade archaeologists. No amount of clunky expository dialogue can untangle this mess of bones, bandages and bald commercial cynicism.

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Is The Mummy: Resurrection With Keanu Reeves Real or Fake? 2024 Movie Speculation Explained

The Mummy: Resurrection trailer starring Keanu Reeves has many wondering if the film is fact or fiction.

In 1999, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz thrilled and chilled audiences with The Mummy , an action-adventure-tinted take on the classic cinematic monster movie series of the same name.

The movie put Fraser on the map and was nothing less than a smash hit, spawning two sequels that were ultimately subject to diminishing returns. A Tom Cruise -focused reboot occurred in 2017 that many agree was not the film they were hoping for.

A New Mummy Movie Starring Keanu Reeves?

A new trailer for a film called The Mummy: Resurrection lurched its way onto YouTube, raking in an impressive number of views. This is thanks, in part, to its supposed star, the über-fan-favorite Keanu Reeves .

Unfortunately, for fans of Universal’s horror/adventure franchise, no new Mummy movie, remake, reboot, sequel, or otherwise is being developed, much less being kept under wraps (Get it?)

Additionally, this is not even the first instance of a bogus Mummy trailer surfacing on the internet. Another Mummy: Resurrection preview cropped up a few months back , with this one claiming to feature the ubiquitous Dwayne Johnson as its lead.

There was an attempt made at a new installment several years ago in 2017. It starred Mission: Impossible ’s own Tom Cruise. But not even Cruise’s magnetic box office draw was enough to get butts in theater seats and The Mummy flopped hard.

The 2017 remake was also supposed to get Universal’s ill-fated Dark Universe off the ground. The Dark Universe was intended to cash in on the interconnected type of storytelling popularized by Marvel’s MCU.

This did not work out for the studio either, and an infamous Dark Universe cast photo wound up becoming an internet laughingstock.

In 2022, Brendan Fraser, who starred in all three parts of the original Mummy trilogy from the late ‘90s/early 2000s, remarked to Variety that he’d be “open” to doing a fourth film, but admitted that he wasn’t quite sure “how it would work:”

“I don’t know how it would work. But I’d be open to it if someone came up with the right conceit.”

As for Keanu Reeves, although he won’t be taking on the Mummy, he does have several upcoming projects in the pipeline. These include the Jonah Hill-directed comedy Outcome and a fifth film in the now-iconic John Wick series.

Reeves will also provide the voice of Shadow, the Blue Blur’s notorious black-and-red quilled rival in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for Paramount . Sonic 3 arrives in December.

Where Have Universal’s Classic Monsters Been Lurking?

Beginning in the 1930s, Universal Studios made household names out of several legendary figures in horror, such as Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and yes, the Mummy.

The movies produced about these characters proved so popular that a myriad of spin-offs, sequels, merchandise, and even a Saturday morning cartoon or two were made.

But nowadays, these titans of terror have largely fallen out of favor, with new-age replacements in the form of Ghostface from the Scream franchise and Jigsaw of Saw fame.

And there is nothing wrong with that. Times change and pop culture changes in lockstep. But longtime devotees surely yearn for a simpler era, one which existed even further back from ’80s slashers like Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees.

Matters are likely not helped by the fact that much of the modern-day stabs at the Mummy and his ilk have been met with underwhelming box office returns. The classic monsters now mostly existing in the public domain are not much of a benefit either since this makes the waters very easily muddied.

Who knows, though? Perhaps Brendan Fraser will strap on Rick O’Connell’s shoulder holsters again and appear in another Mummy sequel that continues the storyline from 2008’s Tomb of the Dragon Emperor . Time will tell.

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“The right man for the right role”: Keanu Reeves Replaces Tom Cruise in The Mummy Fanmade Trailer and It Certainly Looks Promising

T he world fell in love with Keanu Reeves ever since he portrayed the role of Jack Traven in the iconic 1994 film Speed. Going on to The Matrix franchise, Reeves solidified his career in Hollywood with millions of fans to his name.

In a recent fan-made trailer, Reeves replaced Tom Cruise in The Mummy franchise. With shots from various Keanu Reeves movies and The Mummy, the trailer sure looks good. But more importantly, Reeves could turn out to be the actor who could replace Tom Cruise in The Mummy franchise for the Dark Universe!

Keanu Reeves Might Just Be The Perfect Man To Replace Tom Cruise!

Taking to YouTube, a fanmade trailer for a sequel to the 2017 movie The Mummy was released by KH Studio . With shots from the 2017 film with cuts of Keanu Reeves in between, the trailer surely looks good compared to other fanmade trailers.

With Universal Studios trying to create a Dark Universe with horrors from beyond, it seems that Keanu Reeves may be able to save their film. Having some iconic shots of Reeves from films like the John Wick franchise, the trailer managed to mix The Mummy and Reeves well together. Taking to the comment section of the video, here’s what people had to say about the Speed actor potentially replacing Tom Cruise in The Mummy !

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“The right man for the the right role for me!!” “John wick taking on super natural forces” “You know it will be good with Reeves in it” “Love this concept for a movie!”

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Well, as much as we would love to see a mishmash of Constantine, Indiana Jones, John Wick, and, Lara Croft taking on a supernatural mummy, the trailer is just fanmade. On the other hand, Reeves has so many movies to his name that he decided to reject roles (and with good reason too). In an interview, Reeves talked about letting go of Speed 2: Cruise Control and the hilarious reason for which he said no!

Why Keanu Reeves Rejected Speed 2: Cruise Control ?

Back in 1994, Reeves and Sandra Bullock portrayed the lead roles of Jack Traven and Annie Porter in the iconic film Speed. Since the movie was a success, a sequel was naturally developed but this time, the bomb would be on a cruise ship.

During his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live (via Den of Geek ), Reeves revealed that he had to drop out of the project for two reasons. The second reason is simply too hilarious to drop out of a movie!

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“I loved working with Jan de Bont and Sandra, of course. It was just a situation in life where I got the script and I read the script and I was like ugggghhh.”

He further continued,

“It was about a cruise ship and I was thinking, a bus, a cruise ship… Speed, bus, but then a cruise ship is even slower than a bus and I was like, I love you guys but I just can’t do it.”

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Well, luckily the decision worked out in favor of Reeves since he got to be a part of The Matrix while Speed 2: Cruise Control became a massive failure. As of April 2023, Keanu Reeves , Sandra Bullock, and director Jan de Bont have expressed their interest in returning for a Speed sequel with the original cast returning.

Meanwhile, Tom Cruise’s 2017 film, The Mummy (which was considered an average film) is available to rent on Apple TV+ in the U.S.

Check out the fanmade trailer for The Mummy below:

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Suri Cruise was once the most famous baby in America.

The arrival of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter on April 18, 2006, sparked a global frenzy for the first glimpse of the A-list infant.

But it wasn’t until five months after her birth that she made her debut — on the cover of Vanity Fair, wrapped in the arms of her doting parents, in glossy photos taken by photographer to the stars, Annie Leibovitz.

Now she turns 18 on Thursday and faces a choice: Whether to return to the level of fame she had as a kid — when there were blogs devoted to her fashion — or maintain the carefully-guarded life Holmes has built for her since she blindsided Cruise by filing for divorce.

The dark-haired teen has grown up in Manhattan largely shielded from the spotlight by her loving and highly protective mom, 45, far removed from her 60-year-old father’s Church of Scientology.

As Page Six revealed last year, Suri is estranged from her famous father and the pair have no relationship.

Tom Cruise smiles as he holds Suri Cruise, with Katie Holmes beside him.

An industry source told us this week that the “Mission: Impossible” star has not seen Suri since 2012. “Katie has safeguarded Suri and she’s a devoted mom,” the source said.

“This is a girl who is a private citizen. She hasn’t lived her life in public.”

Holmes told Glamour magazine in 2023 that she likes to “protect” Suri from the public eye “because she was so visible at a young age.”

“I’m very grateful to be a parent, to be her parent. She’s an incredible person. She’s my heart,” she added.

Suri Cruise jumps in the water with her dad Tom Cruise at Disney World.

Being the only daughter of a protective single parent is a stark contrast to how Suri’s life began, of course.

“My whole life I always wanted to be a father,” Cruise gushed to VF back in 2006.

“I always said to myself that my children would be able to depend on me and I would always be there for them and love them — that I’d never make a promise to my kids that I couldn’t keep.

Tom Cruise holds Suri Cruise as they leave her gymnastics class in NYC in July 2012.

“I’m not one of those people who believe you can spoil a child with too much love. You can never give a child too much love. There’s just no way.”

He already had two adopted children, Bella, now 31, and Connor, now 29, from his marriage to Nicole Kidman and after her Vanity Fair debut was happy to parade Suri for the paparazzi.

Cruise had famously declared their romance by jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey’s couch in May 2005, yelling “I’m in love!”

Tom Cruise and Suri Cruise, in a pink dress, at the Friars Club awards.

But when Suri was just 6, Holmes filed for divorce after six years of marriage with the help of her dad, Martin Holmes, a fierce attorney, and through a secret plan that entailed using burner phones.

Cruise was taken completely by surprise by the filing while he was on the set of “Oblivion” in Iceland in June 2012.

He and Suri were last seen together at Disney World in the summer of 2012.

Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise ride the Schenley Plaza's carousel.

In November 2013, during a deposition in his $50 million court battle against a pair of tabloid magazines, the “Top Gun” star admitted that Holmes had filed for divorce “to protect Suri from Scientology,” court documents revealed.

Despite not having a relationship; as per their divorce agreement, Cruise, who has an estimated $600 million fortune, agreed to pay Holmes $400,000 a year until Suri turns 18 as well as future “medical, dental, insurance, education, college and other extracurricular costs”.

Scientology lies at the heart of the question over Suri’s future.

Tom Cruise carries Suri Cruise on set in Sevilla, Spain.

Holmes, who rose to fame in the TV hit, “Dawson’s Creek,” is believed to have signed multiple non-disclosure documents that will prevent her from ever talking about her marriage to Cruise — and her time inside Scientology.

But when Suri turns 18, NY state declares that she is at the age of majority, when an individual is legally considered an adult.

That would allow her to speak about her father, his beliefs and their rift.

Tony Ortega, who has covered Scientology in depth for decades, told Page Six, “Suri would have been too young to sign any agreement, but she will now be free to talk if she wants to and it’s going to be really interesting if she has something to say.”

Tom Cruise holds Bella Cruise, while Nicole Kidman holds Connor Cruise.

We have reached out to reps for Cruise, Holmes and the Church of Scientology.

“Part of why Katie left when she did when Suri was 6 was that Katie would have seen Isabella and Connor going through Scientology,” said Ortega.

Cruise is of course Scientology’s most famous follower and seen as one of its most powerful figures, possibly second only to its leader, David Miscavige.

Tom Cruise jumps on Oprah Winfrey's sofa.

That power has led Ortega and former Scientologists to question what action Miscavige and other top Scientologists may have taken against Holmes and her daughter.

Regular members who quit are declared “suppressive persons (SP)” and those who stay in Scientology are told to completely cut them off.

“We don’t know for sure if Katie was ever declared an SP,” Ortega said.

“If you are a regular church member you could be told to disconnect from your wife and daughter, but because Tom is a celebrity — he’s the top celebrity — he gets to ignore all this stuff.

“Your average member would be kicked out, but David Miscavige can’t do that with Tom.”

Both Mike Rinder and Jeff Augustine, two high-profile former Scientologists, agreed with this claim.

Suri Cruise and Katie Holmes go dog walking in Central Park, NYC.

Augustine is married to Karen de la Carriere, who was one of the highest-ranking church leaders until she left in 2010 and told Page Six, “The situation with Suri is a larger story about Scientology and the subject of how they make people no longer useful to them or threats to them non-persons.

“It’s like they cease to exist and that’s what happened to Suri.”

Back in August 2020, Leah Remini — one of the most famous celebrities to leave and speak out against Scientology — told us that she believed Cruise, who now lives mainly in the UK , was waiting until Suri is older so he could indoctrinate her into Scientology.

Suri Cruise and Katie Holmes hold hands as they go shopping.

Remini, who attended Cruise and Holmes’ November 2006 Italian wedding at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle, said, “I’m sure his master plan is to wait until Suri gets older so that he can lure her into Scientology and away from her mother.”

Suri has tiptoed very gently into her parents’ showbusiness world while attending her exclusive Manhattan day school, singing “Blue Moon” in the opening credits of Holmes’ 2022 movie, “Alone Together.”

“I always want the highest level of talent,” Holmes said. “So I asked her! She’s very, very talented. She said she would do it and she recorded it, and I let her do her thing.”

Suri also sang in the film “Rare Objects,” which Holmes also directed.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes hold hands and cuddle after getting married.

Holmes will this year return to Broadway in a revival of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”.

She has not remarried but had a six-year romance with actor Jamie Foxx which she kept under the radar before their split in August 2019 and went on to have a brief fling with Nolita restaurateur Emilio Vitolo Jr. in 2021.

Holmes is careful not to speak out too much about her daughter, who is now preparing for college, once saying, “She came out very strong — she’s always been a strong personality.”

Tom Cruise hugs his children, Bella and Connor Cruise.

But she is now getting ready for her daughter to leave the nest.

“You want them to stay with you forever, but they’re these amazing beings, and you have to do everything you can to give them what they need — and then they’re going to go,” she told Town & Country in 2017.

“And that’s going to be very, very sad for me.”

As for the future, former Scientology spokesperson Mike Rinder, who has not seen his own two eldest children since he quit the organization, told Page Six, “Suri is not a Scientologist and never will be…she deserves love and sympathy.”

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The first film from Universal's Dark Universe - a 21st century revival of old 1930s Universal Pictures characters like The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, Van Helsing, Dracula, Wolf Man and pals in a series of movies - The Mummy should have been a sure-fire success. It's got Tom Cruise in the lead role, Russell Crowe as Dr Henry Jekyll ...
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Film Review: Tom Cruise in 'The Mummy'. Tom Cruise fights an Egyptian demon, which takes up residence inside him, in a monster reboot that's too busy to be much fun. No one over the age of 10 ...
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Read The Mummy reviews from kids and teens on Common Sense Media. Become a member to write your own review. ... age 13+ Based on 32 kid reviews . Add your rating. Sort by: Most Helpful. ... The mummy licks Tom Cruise's face. Not much swearing maybe one shit, bitch, and goddammit. Show more. This title has:
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Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020. For all of its large scale and bluster, The Mummy's biggest flaw is that it's not fun or exciting enough. It tries, all right, but something's ...
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Tom Cruise leads the charge as Nick Morgan, who stumbles upon the hidden tomb of Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) in modern day Iraq. That only leads to chaos, as over 2,000 years ago, Princess ...
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Full Review | Apr 14, 2023. Despite a few grisly concepts (obscured by PG-13 constraints), the mostly ineffective stabs at humor continue, rather incessantly, to drown out the action and horror ...
The Mummy (2017)
If you want the Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and all the other Universal Studios monsters all baked into the same narrative pie, you're working from scratch, and to do that you must first create the universe. Directed by Alex Kurtzman. Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson. Universal.
Review: 'The Mummy,' With Tom Cruise, Deserves a Quick Burial
Caught up in a caper gone wrong: Tom Cruise in "The Mummy." ... Rating PG-13. Running Time 1h 50m. Genres Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller. Movie data powered by IMDb.com. The Mummy
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It is Tom Cruise, who is back to launch a big summer reboot of The Mummy, that classic chiller about the revived corpse from ancient Egypt, from which the tomb door was last prised off in a ...
'The Mummy': It's Time for Tom Cruise to Act His Age
By Josh Spiegel. June 10, 2017 12:00pm. Courtesy of Universal Pictures. [Warning: This story contains minor spoilers for The Mummy .] Even though he's turning 55 next month, Tom Cruise seems ...
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Even A-listers Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe - as Dr Jekyll no less - can't bring this corpse back to life Wendy Ide Sun 11 Jun 2017 03.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 21 Mar 2018 19.51 EDT
Is Keanu Reeves Rebooting The Mummy Franchise?
There was an attempt made at a new installment several years ago in 2017. It starred Mission: Impossible's own Tom Cruise. But not even Cruise's magnetic box office draw was enough to get butts in theater seats and The Mummy flopped hard. The 2017 remake was also supposed to get Universal's ill-fated Dark Universe off the ground.
Keanu Reeves Might Just Be The Perfect Man To Replace Tom Cruise!
Meanwhile, Tom Cruise's 2017 film, The Mummy (which was considered an average film) is available to rent on Apple TV+ in the U.S. Check out the fanmade trailer for The Mummy below:
Suri Cruise turns 18, estranged from Tom: 'Not a Scientologist.'
Suri Cruise was once the most famous baby in America. The arrival of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter on April 18, 2006, sparked a global frenzy for the first glimpse of the A-list infant ...

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