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Last Updated: Jun 23, 2017 - 9:01:35 PM

The Mummy: The start of the Dark Universe seems a bit gloomy
By Rouén Robinson
Jun 21, 2017 - 11:44:43 PM

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Welcome To A New World Of Gods And Monsters...

An ancient princess is awakened in current day by a brash military officer looking to profit from the riches surrounding her tomb. As she brings her malevolence grown over millennia with terrors that defy modern human comprehension, the soldier must find a way to break the curse she has put upon him in order to save the world from an evil not yet unleashed.

Nick Morton is a career military officer who unintentionally releases an imprisoned princess from Egypt and must find a way to keep her from completing her plan for magical world domination. Sergeant Chris Vail is a fellow officer in the military who helps Nick out on his looting undertakings for part of the profit, but finds this last objective more than they can handle. Jennifer Halsey is an archaeologist who has had dealings with Nick and must now help him figure out how to break the curse he is under with the help of the organization Prodigium. Princess Ahmanet is an ancient Egyptian princess who was entombed alive for killing her father and his family as a sacrifice to Set for the promise of unimaginable power.

The Mummy is an action film that tries to be a horror film with comedic sequences sprinkled with drama and fails at almost every turn. It would have been more fun if they focused around the buddy aspect of Nick and Chris which felt true, but instead they forced a love triangle between Nick, Jennifer and Ahmanet which felt false. The action scenes are great, but the movie is shot in such a way that we are not allowed to take them in and the timing of the comedy is off so the jokes don’t register. Tom Cruise is miscast in this film as he brings his signature energy to a production that was going for a type of action horror hybrid that would connect to other films in a series. This being Alex Kurtzman’s second directorial effort may show that he should cut his teeth directing some television episodes before trying his hand at another big budget blockbuster. The tone of this film does not bode well for the Dark Universe saga that it is expected to usher in as it felt like the writers all wanted this film to be different things. We have elements taken from An American Werewolf in London to Lifeforce and the previous Mummy trilogy but it all falls flat.

I rate this movie a rating of 2 out of 5.

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Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen

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