Review of The Mummy (2017) by Notoriousfraud — 11 Jun 2017

The Alex Kurtzman directed reboot of "The Mummy" is a lot of fun. Normally, I do not care for Kurtzman as he wrote some of the most underwhelming to flat terrible modern blockbusters including films like "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", "Star Trek: Into Darkness", and "The Amazing Spider-Man 2".

However, "The Mummy" in my opinion is much better than all those movies though that's not saying much. Tom Cruise is definitely in his element here, he wears all the action and stunts like a perfect fit glove and carries much of the script with just his charisma.

The new "Mummy" played by Sofia Boutella from "kingsman" and "Star Trek: Beyond" is both sexy and scary, more so on the former but she can chew scenery more so compared to Arnold Vosloo's Imhotep and Jet Li's Dragon Emperor from the Brendan Fraser led films.

Now for those "Critic" reviews, a 16% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 34 Meta Score... give me a break the movie isn't THAT bad, yeah i'm a little bias cause I enjoyed it more so than many others but as a franchise starter it is most definitely better than last years fumbled "Ghostbusters" reboot (73% on RT), David Ayer's botched DCEU effort "Suicide Squad" (25%), and it is leagues above Ridley Scott's franchise destroying "Alien: Covenant" (71%).

The reviews for "The Mummy" are a gross over reaction by modern "critics" who are either much to harsh on would be franchise starting blockbusters (Ex. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword) or far too forgiving on Nostalgia driven revamps (Ex.

Jurassic World). Thankfully, This new "Mummy" does not rely on the past movies to set it up as it seeks out it's own cinematic world via the "Dark Universe". Yeah I know that "Ghostbusters" set up it's "Ghost Corp" before crashing and burning, but I feel that as a starting point, this world still has some interesting layers to unwrap.