The Mummy
So-So Blockbuster for Tom Cruise, and the lackluster start to the Dark Universe.
Love the Logo though.
It was cool seeing elements within the Mummy that showed us what the Dark universe was going to be like and the connections between them.
I guess this is something that all blockbusters might need to do now in order to get into the billions. They all needed to be a part of a big connection. The big diff with the dark universe is that it’s not based on a comic book, it’s based on universal monsters, which was a film franchise from the Golden age of Cinema that was revamped at one point by Hammer films who redid all those classics and now they are about to go through a superhero movie influenced reboot.
This movie concentrates on the Universal Monster the Mummy, somewhat of a remake of the trilogy that started in 1999. Tom Cruise, who I would have not expected to do yet another franchise (A sign of a falling star?) stars as a tomb raider (Not the nobile Laura Croft kind) whose greed caused him to become the attraction of a 5,000-year-old, Princess Ahmanet who needs him to be the host of The god of death in order to fulfill their pack.
It was kind of cool if not all that creative how they were able to write in the Iraq conflict with the film stating that the mummy was bury away from Egypt as a means to erase her evil from the history books.
Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise in the movie: a charming persona whose good at running and likes to take his shirt off, it’s getting repetitive that he does all three in each movie lately, but I must admit, I’m impress with what I see, after all we all hope we look as good as Cruise when we are his age. I’m guessing Mission: Impossible and Jack Reacher are not enough to keep the last of the movie stars on top of his game, and considering he was once up for the role that’s making Robert Downey Jr. someone to care about, I’m sure he would like to get into something like that, but honestly from what I saw he should have picked something else.
The more interesting character to look at is Russell Crowe who plays what I can only believe to be the Nick Fury in this new Dark universe, but he is no Nick Fury. Does not really give the presence of cool and importance that Sam L. Jackson brought to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I don’t want to forget the Mummy herself. Out of the four movies the original mummy is still the best but this Princess Ahmanet is OK. I feel she’s more misused. It’s like the movie is called the Mummy, but It feels like she was maybe third on the list of importance behind Tom Cruise and the Dark Universe overall.
It’s a fun action packed adventure don’t get me wrong. It has the kinetic energy that Tom Cruise is known for in his features and I loved the dark elements of classic horror that the mummy was doing, but it’s missing the cherry on top that would make this a summer hit.
Maybe the other movies in the Dark universe will be better?
