Don't even watch the new mummy movie, because it is just a trailer for Mummy 2, and I'm not sure that is really going to happen. The producers are so greedy they are already promoting it in the current Mummy movie which ought to be called Top Bomb. They might be disappointed, as I predict people will stay away from this stale movie in droves. Spoiler alert: Normally I never give away elements of the plot, but in this case I actually give away a lot. But the events are so stupid I'm confident you won't believe me unless you've actually seen the film.
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| The Mummy Lady throws up in this movie. I almost did too. |
Tom Cruise is almost old enough to remember when the pyramids were being built, but he's actually rather good as the lead actor. Then Annabelle Wallis is fine as the incredibly-beautiful-for-no-reason government scientist, Sofia Boutella is the mummy (semi-sexy but not much), Jake Johnson is Tom's sidekick, and I have no idea what Russell Crowe is doing. I think he showed up for the wrong movie. They were filming a remake of Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde next door and he went to the wrong studio and showed up in the Top Bomb movie by mistake. Honest, that's what happened.
Speaking of casting, I was happy with the performances, but once again, another movie fails to have an ethnically diverse cast. It's basically a bunch of white guys messing around with evil Egyptian magic.
The essence of the movie is about collecting the right sort mumbo jumbo needed to use ancient Egyptian magic to prolong life. It's complicated. Let's see, you need to make friends with a bad Egyptian God so that they will give you an ancient magic curse. Or maybe you need a spell to read, and a magic knife. No wait, you need a magic jewel too or it doesn't work. Or maybe you can use modern chemistry to make a potion to skip all the worship-related stuff and that might work about as well.
Then you have to decide who is going to stab who and whether or not stabbing is helpful or harmful to your desire to come back from the dead. And if they do come back from the dead, will they be in a good mood when they come back?
I give up. I can't explain how the coming back from the dead thing workds. I have no idea why, but some people die and come back in this movie and some don't. It would be better if they had all stayed dead, frankly.
Speaking of casting, I was happy with the performances, but once again, another movie fails to have an ethnically diverse cast. It's basically a bunch of white guys messing around with evil Egyptian magic.
The essence of the movie is about collecting the right sort mumbo jumbo needed to use ancient Egyptian magic to prolong life. It's complicated. Let's see, you need to make friends with a bad Egyptian God so that they will give you an ancient magic curse. Or maybe you need a spell to read, and a magic knife. No wait, you need a magic jewel too or it doesn't work. Or maybe you can use modern chemistry to make a potion to skip all the worship-related stuff and that might work about as well.
Then you have to decide who is going to stab who and whether or not stabbing is helpful or harmful to your desire to come back from the dead. And if they do come back from the dead, will they be in a good mood when they come back?
I give up. I can't explain how the coming back from the dead thing workds. I have no idea why, but some people die and come back in this movie and some don't. It would be better if they had all stayed dead, frankly.
Everyone wants to stab Tom Cruise and most of the time it's kind of a friendly, laid-back California style stabbing. They just hope he is basically okay with it, and try to talk up the idea of being stabbed to death. It could be good for science! Good for religion! It might save your girlfriend! Whaddya say, Tom?
Well, all the rules are very confusing, and sorting through the rules of immortality substitutes for a plot. There is in fact no plot at all. I still am not sure why some people become zombies and some don't. Plus some retain most of their personality and other's don't.
I also dislike the minor mummies and miscellaneous zombies, who are thrown into the movie in case someone wants to make a video game out of it (they won't). Anyway these tiny mummies are about as dangerous as chipmunks, and just annoying.
I also dislike the minor mummies and miscellaneous zombies, who are thrown into the movie in case someone wants to make a video game out of it (they won't). Anyway these tiny mummies are about as dangerous as chipmunks, and just annoying.
The movie does a good job of providing startling surprises, so if you like being scared it's okay to watch. Don't let little kids see it though; I imagine a 10 year old might get really scared at certain points.
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