Title: The Mummy (2017) 5.5 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. Buy Movie and TV Show DVDs. DPReview Digital Photography. Die Mumie online Film anschauen. Die Mumie runterladen und kostenlos bei movie4k.org angucken. ![]() Quotes [ first lines]: [ having just broken through with their drill] What the hell is this?: I don't know.: [ stepping inside] Whoa! Bloody hell!: The Crossrail is the biggest construction project in Europe, carving 26 miles of new commuter train tunnels beneath the surface of London. But today, an ancient tomb filled with the coffins of Crusader knights.: People don't realize that London is a giant graveland. A modern city built on centuries of death.: Because of the proximity to the Thames, half the space is. 'The Mummy' is the first movie in what Universal Studios wants to call their 'Dark Universe.' Yeah, that's right. Those re-shoots that 2014's 'Dracula Untold' went through to tie into a Dark Universe; those don't matter now. That 2010 Benicio del Toro 'Wolfman' movie; also doesn't matter. In a world where Universes are becoming more and more of a thing, Universal seems determined not to let this monster mash-up of The Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde and more slip through their fingers. ![]() ![]() ![]() And they're also not skimping out on finding A-list talent to help sell the whole thing. So far we've heard Johnny Depp, The Rock, and Javier Bardem's names being thrown into the mix, plus Russell Crowe is already here as Dr. That last one I think is really cool by the way because while so many others have been portrayed by the likes of Gary Oldman and Jack Nicholson's, Jekyll's best portrayal in the past 20+ years has been ugh.David Hasselhoff. But now let's talk about 'The Mummy', specifically that old trilogy with Brendan Fraser. There's no doubt director Stephen Sommers lucked out with that first film and there's also little doubt Universal wants to move away from that overall cheesiness here. The question is can they still go serious but also have fun at the same time? And say what you will about Sommers; the guy was a C-grade filmmaker who got a kick out of a cheap thrill but at least you could say he committed to it. This new Mummy is just a wrong-headed disaster. The set-up is pretty much the same as the older Mummy film although here it's a woman played by 'Kingsman's' Sofia Boutella. ![]() She's Ahmanet, an Egyptian Princess who wanted power, sold out to some powerful entity for eternal life, and paid for it by getting entombed. Universal of course is also putting it's faith in Tom Cruise, who plays an Army Vet prone towards treasure hunting. He and several others find Ahmanet's sarcophygus but while bringing it back to be examined, the plane goes down over London and a bunch of strange things happen that they learn can't just be coincidence. This is Cruise just being Cruise here. He gets to run around a lot doing his 'intense face' all while an attractive woman half his age is along with him for the sexual interplay (more on her in a moment). Yeah, there's discussion about his character growing something of a conscience as this goes on but it's pretty perfunctory. Plus having the Mummy be a woman after Cruise's body so she could plant her demon God inside of him and they can reign as King and Queen; this seems more like it falls into being of one of Cruise's aging vanity projects than on acting skill. Boutella gets very little to do otherwise but try and be seductive while waving her hands in a threatening manner. Otherwise auto-tune does the rest. The Cruise character's love interest is an archaeologist played by Annabelle Wallis who looks like she just stepped out from a Paris fashion show into an archaeological dig.
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