The Mummy (2017)
The film that was supposed to kick off Universal's Dark Universe film series which was basically going to be The Mummy, Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein's Monster etal in a shitty Marvel style reboot. Thank god for small mercies it didn't do as well as expected and this superhero monster madness was put back in the box titled ' F*cking stupid ideas'.
Starring Tom (Here on auto) Cruise and featuring Russell Crowe hamming it up as Henry Jekyll, The Mummy is a hugely flawed film but not without it's moments of watchability. There's some decent action but the actual Mummy is a concept that's largely irrelevant in movies today. A shambling bandaged figure just wouldn't shock unless the film is a small scale slasher style horror which this isn't. So the film sexes up the mummy by having her played by Sofia Boutella but then not really knowing what to do with her once she's alive and kicking so they chain her up in Jekyll's underground lair.
Although Cruise and Crowe are pretty much phoning it in they remain the films biggest draws and always grab the attention because of their screen presence and make sitting through it a better experience than the critics at the time would have you believe. I've seen this twice now, once on dvd and now on Blu-ray and it did improve second time around possibly helped by the impressive Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
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