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This was a Tom Cruise movie...

posted 3 years ago by M1sterDoct0r (4423)
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Like it didn't look like or feel like a Mummy film. You know what I mean? He basically rewrote & hijacked the film to make it a film for himself.

You can literally change that title to anything else & it honestly wouldn't change a thing.

Mission Impossible: Egyptian Tombs, in a theatre near you. Or playing on tv like every single day! 😅

I'm sorry, that's an insult to Misiion Impossible films. Those have honestly been pretty good. Especially the past 3.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 2 years ago

It's definitely a Tom Cruise movie, but I enjoyed it and think it's underrated. In fact, I liked it enough that I bought it on 4K Blu-Ray.

It's nowhere near as good as the 1999 Mummy, but then again I think the '99 film is one of the best adventure movies of all time. Like an easy Top 3.

But even though it falls short by comparison, I would say that Cruise's Mummy is better than all of the sequels to Brendan Fraser's movie. It's an enjoyable ride with some good action and horror elements, and Cruise is always a winner whose presence elevates whatever movie he's in.

I'd give it a 7.5/10 and wish that we had gotten some more Dark Universe movies.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Agreed.

It gets too much hate. A solidly entertaining flick.

Sofia Boutella was great as The Mummy, a shame the Dark Universe went down the gutter. Crazy that this was considered a flop even though it made over 400 million worldwide. The expectations were far too high.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 2 years ago

Yes, I have consistently wondered how a movie makes 400 million dollars and the studio throws its hands up and goes, "Total failure! Abandon ship!"

Likewise, both the critical response and audience response surprised me. On RT right now it has a 16% critic score and a 35% from audiences. And on IMDB it has a 5.4. The critics are often stuffy anyway, so that's not a total shock, but it really seems like audiences would've enjoyed it a little more.

Maybe the problem came down to unreasonably high expectations, as you allude to, along with comparisons to the '99 movie. The studios expected too much from the box office and audiences wouldn't accept anything less than a film that was at least on par with Fraser's movie.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17735) 2 years ago

They do seem to play this on TV once a day almost.