The Mummy (2017) Review

The Mummy

Release Date: 8th June 2017 - Australia 

Production Companies

Universal Pictures 

Perfect World Pictures (in association with)

Secret Hideout

Conspiracy Factory

Sean Daniel Company

Dentsu (presented in association with)

Fuji Television Network (presented in association with)

Distribution 

Universal Pictures Australia

Genre: Action/Adventure/

Fantasy

 
Rating: M

Runtime: 111 minutes

Budget: $125,000,000

Box Office Gross: $409,231,607 (Worldwide)

 

Plot Summary 

Believed to be safely entombed in a tomb deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, wrongfully deprived of her destiny, awakens in the present day, bringing thousands of years of hostility and horrors beyond human comprehension.

Cast

Tom Cruise - Nick Morton

Sofia Boutella - Ahmanet

Annabelle Wallis - Jenny Halsey

Jake Johnson - Sgt. Chris Vail

Courtney B. Vance - Col. Greenway

Russell Crowe - Henry Jekyll

Marwan Kenzari - Malik

Simon Atherton - Crusader

Stephen Thompson - First Man

James Arama - Second Man

Matthew Wilkas - Reporter

Sohm Kapila - Reporter

Sean Cameron Michael - Archaeologist

Rez Kempton - Construction Manager

Erol Ismail - Ahmanet's Warrior
Hadrian Howard - MP

Selva Rasalingam - King Menehptre
Shanina Shaik - Arabian Princess

Javier Botet - Set

Dylan Smith - Pilot
Parker Sawyers - Co-Pilot

Neil Maskell - Dr. Whemple

Rhona Croker - Helen

Andrew Brooke - Mr. Brooke (Emergency Worker)

Timothy Allsop - Worker

Grace Chilton - Woman in Toliet

Hannah Zoé Ankrah - Woman in Toliet

Dylan Kussman - Writer Tech

Peter Lofsgard - Spider Technician

Shane Zaza - Technician

Bella Ava Georgiou - Technician

Alice Hewkin - Technician

Adrian Christopher - Technician

Vera Chok - Prodigium Tech

Martin Bishop - Senior Technician

Daniel Tuite - Prodigium Technician

Noof Ousellam - Technician in Chamber

David Burnett - Tunnel Agent

Maryam Grace - Female Tech

Crew 

Screen Story/Producer/
Director - Alex Kurtzman

Screen Story - Jon Spaihts and Jenny Lumet

Screenplay - David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie

and Dylan Kussman
Associate Producer - Kevin Elam

Executive Producers - Jeb Brody and Roberto Orci
Producer/Unit Production Manager -
Sarah Bradshaw

Producers - Sean Daniel and Chris Morgan
Casting Directors - Francine Maisler and
Lucinda Syson

Production Designers - Jon Hutman and
Dominic Watkins

Creature Designer - Mark 'Crash' McCreery
Supervising Art Director - Frank Walsh
Senior Art Directors - Andrew Ackland-Snow
and John Frankish
Set Decorator - Jille Azis
Property Master - David Chessman
Costume Designer - Penny Rose
Master Armourer - Simon Atherton

Hair and Makeup Designer - Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou

Special Makeup Effects Designer - David White

Director of Photography - Ben Seresin

2nd Unit Director of Photography - Andrew Rowlands

Aerial Director of Photography - Adam Dale

Director of Photography: Underwater Unit -

Pete Romano

Supervising Location Manager - Bill Darby

First Assistant Directors - K.C. Holwell

and Richard Graysmark

2nd Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator - Wade Eastwood
Fight Coordinator - Wolfgang Stegemann

Picture Vehicles Supervisor - Graham Kelly

Aerial Pilot - Marc Wolff

Special Effects Supervisor - Dominic Tuohy
Special Effects Coordinator/Buyer - Alicia Davies

Visual Effects Supervisor - Erik Nash

Visual Effects Supervisor: DNEG  - Darren Poe

Visual Effects Supervisors: Lola Visual Effects -

Edson Williams

Visual Effects Supervisors: ILM - Mark Curtis

and Pablo Helman
Visual Effects Supervisors: MPC - Asregadoo Arundi

and Greg Butler

Visual Effects Supervisor: Factory VFX -
Eric D. Christensen (Uncredited)

Executive Producer: ILM - Wayne Billheimer

CG Supervisors: MPC - Bryan Litson

and Victor Lizarraga

Animation Supervisors: MPC - Matt Kowaliszyn

and Omar Morsy

Animation Supervisor: ILM - Glen McIntosh

Compositing Supervisors: DNEG - Mike Brazelton

and Adam Hammond (Uncredited)

Editors - Gina & Paul Hirsch and
Andrew Mondshein

Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/

Re-Recording Mixer - Christopher Scarabosio

Supervising Sound Editor/ADR Performer -

Daniel Laurie

Additional Sound Design - Jeremy Bowker,

David Farmer and David C. Hughes

Re-Recording Mixer - Paul Massey

Dialogue/ADR Editors - Ryan Frias

and Cheryl Nardi

Foley Supervisor - Frank Rinella

Foley Artists - Ronni Brown and Margie O'Malley

Music/Score Mixer - Brian Tyler

Review

From the 1920s to the late 1950s, Universal Pictures produced most classic horror movies that were iconic and had many nostalgic qualities for people who grew up with these movies. There were several iconic monsters in Hollywood to choose from, like Hunchback, The Phantom, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and The Invisible Man, to name a few. Recently, Universal Studios announced that they are creating a line of monster movies in the form of the Dark Universe, which will overlap in the sense these characters will make appearances in the same way that happens in the universes of Marvel and DC. In their reawakening, the Dark Universe was supposed to resurrect the classic ghouls that once haunted the silver screen. Unfortunately, the first of these females for the new franchise was 2017's THE MUMMY, which had a dismal profit at the box office.

Unlike its previous interpretations, it is an overblown and misguided attempt to re-embrace the titular character's origins and supernatural themes. Audiences weren't interested in the new revitalisation of an iconic monster that was less mummified and gender-swapped. The story gets too wrapped in exposition. Some plot points got unnecessarily added to the beginning of Universal's newly rejuvenated universe of scary monsters.

The aging star Tom Cruise should be ashamed for starring in this unrelenting big-budgeted picture. He is not to blame for his career setback, though he took the fall when it should have been the writer/director Alex Kurtzman's. He still has a touch of charisma left from his middle-aged looks, but not enough to save a remake beyond worth saving. Russell Crowe was in the supporting cast as the mysterious Dr. Jekyll as the character gets borrowed from a classic novel. Sofia Boutella delights in her acting playfulness with sheer fright and seduction as Ahnamet, the undead Princess of Egypt.

THE MUMMY has a few scares to terrify the moviegoers but not enough to thrill them into this forgettable monster mash. I advise viewers who may or may not have seen the classic 1932 movie or the campy fun of the 1999 remake to see this film for one time and not bother to rewatch it. Otherwise, if you are looking for a good monster movie, rewatch The Mummy trilogy instead.

Star rating: (4/10) Below Average

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