The Mummy (2017)
June 6, 2017 in theaters
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
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Universal's attempt to launch a shared monster universe begins and ends here, undone by a fundamental tension between the Tom Cruise action-hero playbook and the darker mythology Sofia Boutella's genuinely unsettling Ahmanet deserved. The film can't decide what it wants to be — a breezy chase thriller, a horror origin story, or a franchise table-setter — and cycles through all three modes without fully committing to any. There's enough craft on screen to make the failure interesting, and Boutella is worth watching even when the script isn't. It's a cautionary monument to franchise-first thinking and earns its place in the catalog as exactly that.
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