'A Misfire!' 'A bad start to Universals Dark Universe!'
I had a choice here, to watch Wonder Woman or The Mummy, I watched The Mummy. Was that a good decision, maybe, maybe not, I have yet to see Wonder Woman.
Tom Cruise is 55 years old, thats incredible, the only time you feel his age is when he has his top off, his chest has got a bit saggy, but he runs, jumps and dodges things like he's 25. The wonderful element of Cruise here, is that he's a bit of a prick, caring for himself first and then maybe someone else. On a side note, his character is called Nick, Brendan Frasiers character was called Rick.
I didn't like the Mummy getting into Cruise's head and telling him where to go and what to do, the plot was as I call it the ' get this and get that, so that that does or doesn't happen,' so here the 'this' was a sword and a stone, it is just lazy - you have the Mummy here, make it unsettling, make it a mystery. The great thing about the trailer was the ominous nature of the tomb on the plane and Cruise looking at it wondering what is going on, that feeling should be all throughout the film, instead it becomes a CGI fest, towards the end I didn't know if I was watching A Mummy film or a Zombie film. There was comedy in this film, but I do think if its a Dark Universe, which is a Horror Universe, then go Full Horror, make it more dark, take out the humour, this is not Brendan Frasier Mummyverse.
In closing, it was a good film up to a point, it needed more horror, less action and also less humour - if they change the percentage levels of these areas then there is a better film. In addition, a better method in moving the character from one place to another, is not to have a character just doing what someone tells him to do.(Simon Says, which was the script that turned into the plot of Die hard 3) The only time Tom Cruise did something without being told to was saving the woman's life in the end.
The Dark Universe, needs to fix its lore, what is allowed and what isn't because if it doesn't it will inevitably fall into deep tomb which no one will want to open and everyone will forget.
3/5