By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Alex Kurtzman
Cast: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Marwan Kenzari, Sean Cameron Michael and Russell Crowe.
Rating: Poor.
Director Alex Kurtzman, brings another movie to the Universal Monster World and he does it with “The Mummy” and by far this is one of the worst reboots I´ve seen for a while.
The movie tells the story of Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) a former Military officer who one day with his sidekick and closest friend Chris Vail (Jake Johnson) discovery the tomb of the Egyptian Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella).
This will bring the attention of the Archeologist Jennifer Halsey (Annabelle Wallis) who wants to bring the tomb to London.
The problem begins when a possessed Chris opens the tomb of Ahmanet and hell will be unleashed.
Now Nick and Jennifer with the help of Dr. Henry Jekyll (Russell Crowe) will try to stop Ahmanet before she unleashes her fury and compromises the entire world, which could mean the end of humanity.
“The Mummy” like I mentioned before is a very ridiculous movie and once the Second Act started it proves my point.
The major problem of this movie is that 6 writers were involved including Academy Award Winner Christopher McQuarrie who directed Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation”, by far considered the best of the franchise and “Jack Reacher” and the chances of everything getting out of control can be increased.
The screenplay didn´t make any sense at all and the inclusion of a character like Dr. Jekyll is completely useless. The use of voiceover is one of the worst I have seen as well and it was used in a very amateur way. The inclusion of a sidekick in Tom Cruise´s case was not even necessary and doesn´t work since it doesn´t bring anything to the story.
Tom Cruise is an actor this always fun to watch with but this is so far the worst movie I have seen in his career.
The directing by Alex Kurtzman was a complete mess and all over the place. The acting of his cast was awful and the poorly choices he made in the material speak for itself.
I was disappointed that Kurtzman had two powerhouse actors like Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe and he couldn´t deliver a good product.
In a positive note the action sequences there are very well made and some of the visual effects but honestly that was pretty much it.
The movie was predictable from beginning to end and for starters The Mummy character should have been a man like in most of the versions. The shift to a woman doesn´t make any sense. It would have made sense if a better story would have been involved but this wasn´t the case.
“The Mummy” is one of the major disasters in this summer of 2017 and please think about it twice before watching this movie because indeed not only you will not get your money´s worth but you will be disappointed with this nonsense.