and eventually you're bound to notice a few things that may have been initially brushed aside in the throes of appreciation. It even has one of the all-time best movie romances: Rick and Evy forever! And on top of all that, the CGI still holds up surprisingly well.īut because "The Mummy" is so great, it's a very re-watchable film. It changed the action movie game for the better. It's exciting and funny, and it stars some incredibly charismatic actors at the peak of their powers: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, and plenty of others. Like Loading."The Mummy" is one of those movies you can watch any time. Fraser fans may be left fuming BUT if you want a frantic time filler with enough bang for your buck, it won’t do any harm. BUT I didn’t expect too much and I’ve seen a lot worse for the ratings this film has received.Ī mess BUT a watchable one. He was just lucky that Alex Kurtzmann threw enough chaotic smash em grab em to hide what a mess this really was. Normally you can bank on Cruise to deliver a big popcorn movie. Seriously, let’s make him Crowe look evil. Even if his Hyde impression was a little Ray Winstone incarnate with some messy panda eyes. The exact thing needed to keep a silly monster movie like this entertaining.Īnd he was only in it for 15 minutes. He lifted every scene with the right level of flamboyance. Duh!), the writers really missed an opportunity with Russell Crowe. BUT it just didn’t quite have the fun of O’Connell’s crypt chase.ĭespite the vacuum sized plot holes (Seriously who brings a hostile ancient evil right to the very thing she is seeking. The bathroom encounter had a creepy American Werewolf in London vibe to it.Ĭruise’s comical crusty corpse church punch up had me in stitches.
Johnson worked at lot better when he popped up in Nick’s (Cruise) subconscious. Soul kissing the life out of people in the background while Cruise and Wallis continued to bicker and highlight enormous plot holes. The creepy zombie soldiers and their Dementor style death kiss was a nice touch. It was going to be tough to top Imhotep’s smiling face in the sandstorm. The visual effects were impressive BUT not memorable. Replacing smouldering tension and friction with playground insults and more yelling.īen Seresin’s cinematography was fantastic to look at. There was zero chemistry between Cruise and Wallis. No matter how nauseating it got in the Mummy Returns (Fans, am I right?)
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Plus it helped that there was actual chemistry between her and Fraser. Don’t know why I thought I’d share that) was irritating but had her charm. A creepy adversary (And no, let’s not mention the horrifically CGI’d Scorpion King).īoutella did her best with the role BUT her lines were dull and she spent too much time in the background.Īnnabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders) was far too serious and annoying for her own good. On paper, swapping the dynamic around (Making the Mummy female) and modernizing it actually had potential BUT it failed to offer anything new.Īrnold Vosloo was a sinister presence. The problem with this reboot was that I couldn’t stop making comparisons to the Fraser flick. Let’s not forget there was a reason why the franchise got rebooted in the first place. The less we say about Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the better. They played the right level of cheese, humour (John Hannah, come on!) and let’s not forget that tongue in cheek horror. The 1999 Stephen Sommers blockbuster and The Mummy Returns were perfectly balanced. Too stupid to be funny and NOT dark enough to be a real horror. No scarab beetles?! No Omid Djalili screaming like a banshee? (What?) Camel spiders and rats? Really? Meh. Thankfully his swift exit was a pleasant relief. Especially in the frenetic opening Iraq shoot em up sequence. Johnson’s incessant yelling did my head in. I really hoped Cruise and Jake Johnson’s (New Girl) pairing would have worked better. I mean, fair play to the 55 year old for still throwing himself about and jumping across rooftops. Cruise’s cocky Indiana Jones just about got away with it.
Flicked back and forth from one ridiculous explosive set piece to another. To be honest, the opening act didn’t mess about. Okay, it wasn’t that bad BUT it wasn’t that great either. An ancient Egyptian princess (Sofia Boutella) is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.