It's open season on Tom Cruise these days. After offending an army of female admirers by jumping up and down on Oprah's guest couch, most people will now tell you they don't like Tom Cruise. "He's weird"..."He's icky", they say. It's funny how opinion has changed. I don't know if Cruise deliberately decided to make action movies for dudes now, but it certainly looks that way. Peer at his filmography over the last 10 years and tell me he hasn't cranked out consistently fun and entertaining movies. Cruise also saves this movie with his energy and ability to portray characters that think fast in moments of chaos and desperation.
Fact is, "The Mummy" isn't very good. Hopes that Universal's "Dark Universe" series would actually attempt to be scary disappeared as quickly as you can spell "PG-13". I don't understand the choice of Egyptian princess as mummy, either. I suppose a slow-walking, zombie-ish 7-foot man isn't intimidating enough? There needs to be a cat-like female mummy with powers that can bring on the apocalypse? Oh, and here's another movie with a powerful stone or gem or something. Next idea, please.
The effects were pretty good, especially the reanimation of the mummy. The way that the body creaked and untangled itself and kind of crawled around felt inspired. The plane crash scene was also well done.
I'd watch "The Mummy" again just because Cruise makes everything he's in better.
Review by whitsbrainVIP 6BlockedParent2022-01-15T17:35:29Z
It's open season on Tom Cruise these days. After offending an army of female admirers by jumping up and down on Oprah's guest couch, most people will now tell you they don't like Tom Cruise. "He's weird"..."He's icky", they say. It's funny how opinion has changed. I don't know if Cruise deliberately decided to make action movies for dudes now, but it certainly looks that way. Peer at his filmography over the last 10 years and tell me he hasn't cranked out consistently fun and entertaining movies. Cruise also saves this movie with his energy and ability to portray characters that think fast in moments of chaos and desperation.
Fact is, "The Mummy" isn't very good. Hopes that Universal's "Dark Universe" series would actually attempt to be scary disappeared as quickly as you can spell "PG-13". I don't understand the choice of Egyptian princess as mummy, either. I suppose a slow-walking, zombie-ish 7-foot man isn't intimidating enough? There needs to be a cat-like female mummy with powers that can bring on the apocalypse? Oh, and here's another movie with a powerful stone or gem or something. Next idea, please.
The effects were pretty good, especially the reanimation of the mummy. The way that the body creaked and untangled itself and kind of crawled around felt inspired. The plane crash scene was also well done.
I'd watch "The Mummy" again just because Cruise makes everything he's in better.