Rent The Mummy (2017)

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1h 46min
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Synopsis:
Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess (Sofia Boutella) whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension. From the sand of the Middle East through modern-day London, The Mummy balances wonder, thrills, and imagination.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Sarah Bradshaw, Sean Daniel, Genevieve Hofmeyr, Alex Kurtzman, Chris Morgan
Writers:
David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie, Dylan Kussman, Jon Spaihts, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet
Aka:
Untitled Mummy Reboot
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Genres:
Action & Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
Collections:
2017, 2018, A Brief History of Archaeology on Screen: Part 1, A Brief History of Galleries and Museums in Film: Part 1, CinemaParadiso.co.uk Through Time, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Sidney Lumet
BBFC:
Release Date:
23/10/2017
Run Time:
106 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.40:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Deleted & Extended Scenes
  • Rooted in Reality
  • Life in Zero-G: Creating the Plane Crash
  • Meet Ahmanet
  • Cruise in Action
  • Becoming Jekyll and Hyde
  • Choreographed Chaos
  • Nick Morton: In Search of a Soul
  • Ahmanet Reborn Animated Graphic Novel
  • Feature Commentary
BBFC:
Release Date:
23/10/2017
Run Time:
110 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.40:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Deleted and Extended Scenes
  • Feature Commentary
  • Rooted in Reality
  • Cruise and Kurtzman: A Conversation
  • Life in Zero-G: Creating the Plane Crash
  • Meet Ahmanet
  • Cruise in Action
  • Becoming Jekyll and Hyde
  • Choreographed Chaos
  • Nick Morton: In Search of a Soul
  • Ahmanet Reborn Animated Graphic Novel
BBFC:
Release Date:
23/10/2017
Run Time:
110 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.40:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Deleted and Extended Scenes
  • Feature Commentary
  • Rooted in Reality
  • Cruise and Kurtzman: A Conversation
  • Life in Zero-G: Creating the Plane Crash
  • Meet Ahmanet
  • Cruise in Action
  • Becoming Jekyll and Hyde
  • Choreographed Chaos
  • Nick Morton: In Search of a Soul
  • Ahmanet Reborn Animated Graphic Novel
BBFC:
Release Date:
23/10/2017
Run Time:
110 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.40:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B

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Reviews (24) of The Mummy

Typical Big Budget Hollywood - The Mummy review by JR

Spoiler Alert
05/11/2017

This is such a typical by-the-numbers big budget movie, there is nothing original here at all. Even the sound track is the same constant dramatic classical, just like Speilberg was doing 20 years ago. I actually quite like Tom Cruise when he's given a half decent script and story to work with, but I'm afraid this is not one of those occasions.

4 out of 6 members found this review helpful.

Where to start - The Mummy review by RT

Spoiler Alert
10/11/2017

this is utter and total drivel - poor acting, poor plot, a poor conclusion

Go back to the 1999 (well about) with Gleason and Weiss. OK it is a B movie - but has a certain appeal and is soooo much more inventive and amusing as this pile of alsatian Turd (I jest you not).

So Cruise becomes the 'love interest' (sorry Weiss was far more appealing - and considerably more likeable and amusing). The leading (?) actress - well we all wondered whether she was simply an import who had not worked hard enough on accent - but apparently, she is British (you see we too can export crap actors to the US).

It fails on so many levels. The spiders don't have ha;f the creep of the scrabs (in the Leason/Weiss film). There is no imagination at all - and I include the introduction of Doctor Jekyll in that! Details are flimsy (really - that aircraft was pressurised and would not survive penetration - pull the other one or at least inform the US military (they need to know). Got to be England - the pint glass have handles :-)

Too much to write but to much time to waste before a better film. We tried this glasses of wine in hand and the only value was in te comments of the (increasingly sloshed) viewers.

Avoid it!

But it Cruise has ambition and there was a sequel set up at the end.

3 out of 6 members found this review helpful.

First was better - The Mummy review by NC

Spoiler Alert
05/11/2017

Tom earns a few bob. Computer generated rules, yet again. Crowe is his normal Australian lorry driver self. Trying to deliver lines like Anthony Hopkins now.

What is Dr Hyde all about? Surprised Batman didn't turn up..........

2 out of 3 members found this review helpful.

Critic review

The Mummy (aka Untitled Mummy Reboot) review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso

Oh, sure, it would be nice to have a modern Mummy movie that can better encapsulate that aspect of horror and terror that the original held, but that’s just not the world we live in anymore. If you want to dig up a property nowadays, it either has to come bundled with nostalgia or restructured into an action blockbuster. And since Universal’s mummy property is far too old for 30-somethings to gush over, it’s off to the Alex Kurtzman action factory for this monster.

To be fair, the mummy could really use a makeover. How scary can you make a bandaged and undead Egyptian? Given the right horror director, of which there are plenty nowadays, it could be accomplished, but, again, a much different world. Universal doesn’t just want a monster movie, but a monster franchise of a connected universe. And nothing says connected universe like safe, flashy and quippy action. At least the mummy will receive a gender change, a better costume and a more physical presence to be a threat. Or as much of a threat as this monster can be for an action picture.

The mummy in question is the evil Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), royalty of old Egypt that just didn’t feel powerful enough. With no more ladder to climb for a princess, she makes a deal with the supernatural forces of Set to become a monster of eternal life and great evil (or some crap like that). She goes on killing spree, but is only one stabbing away from her new powers when the guards restrain her and bury her alive. Fast forward to modern day where the roguish treasure hunter Nick (Tom Cruise) stumbles onto her tomb. Ever the seeker of fortune, it doesn’t take much for him to crack open her prison, leading to him being cursed by Ahmanet. Having now gained the ability to suck the souls out of men, the revived Ahmanet is only one stabbed Tom Cruise away from that eternal life. All she needs is her magic dagger with its magic stone and some alone time with a shirtless Cruise.

The monster of the mummy has neat aspects to her character, but they’re rarely explored. The curse she places on Nick causes him to be unexplainably drawn to her presence. All this amounts to is forcing Nick to certain scenes so the plot can keep going. Ahament seems to have control over spiders, but this is never explained past some easy outs for the monster to escape. And if the mummy can gain all her revival power from the sucking the souls out of men’s mouths, why wouldn’t the twentieth victim just cover his mouth?

There’s not much organic flow for such an adventure that presents handfuls of decent scenes that don’t connect as well. There’s a terrifying scene where a soldier turned zombie stabs his superior to death, but it’s quickly ended with a humorous double-tap of gunfire. After a thrilling practical scene where Nick bounces around the interior of a crashing plane, his revival at the morgue comes off more comical for him being naked than intriguing for, you know, surviving a crash after dying. I understand the film’s desire to balance a horror element with a high-spirited adventure, but it’s less a case of mixing chocolate with peanut butter and more of ice cream and ketchup.

The same goes for the character which are about as predictable as action movie archetypes can get. Tom Cruise is playing his most generic of action movie roles, a character so basic that his catchphrase is asking people where’s their sense of adventure. His love interest of the archeologist Jenny is the standard love-hate girl, made evident by her first scene where she smacks Nick across the face for sleeping with her and stealing her stuff. Even Ahmanet is a typical seductress of a villain, never reaching that level of an implied love triangle between Nick and Jenny. This leads to several awkward scenes, as when Jenny walks in on Nick being straddled against his will by Ahmanet, with Cruise delivering the expected line “this isn’t what it looks like.” There’s more quips than quality in this script where Kurtzman desperately tries to weave atypical blockbuster laughs; laughs that are about as artificial as the ho-hum computer graphics.

The only intriguing aspect of the movie, outside of Tom Cruise’s solid stunt work, is a secret monster containment organization led by Doctor Jekyll (Russell Crowe), intended to be a linking device for Universal’s future monster movies. This is a rather neat idea, especially when Jekyll’s Hyde persona attempts to bargain with Nick to be an evil duo. I can’t wait to see how the connected world of monsters plays out, even if it’s an obvious bank off the success of Marvel’s franchise formula. It’s just a bummer that the first foray into the series happens to be the most boring of monsters with the most uneven of adventure pictures.

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