If you like to see Tom Cruise, you may like this movie. It's full of the action of Tom as in Mission Impossible, but nothing new. If you expect to see a story like the previous movies of Mummy, forget it, this is a completely different ball game. However, if you have something else better to do, do not waste your money on this movie. I gave a rating 2 out of respect for Tom Cruise.
To begin with, the introduction of the story takes too long. Going all over the place from the Crusade to London and Iraq/Mesopotamia. To make it legit, the director seemed to remember that there was some armies who were shooting stone statue. Next come an woman who is an expert on the stone which so clean and fresh like she was just out from taking a long shower. I really must say that the costume designer of this movie has no idea what an female archaeologist should look like when they are dressed for work. Surely not with a long flowing hair and silk scarf plus some neat trousers.
To make it more ridiculous, Tom Cruise is playing as an absent minded American troops, who seems to have his commanding officer under his thumb. This is really a disgrace for the US army. It is more confusing later when the archaeologist is actually working for a British officials. People would have thought that a US army will bring whatever they found to the US base, but not on this one. They carried the finding to the UK ? Why ? Can't they come up with a more logical story line ?
If you want to destroy something bad, I would have thought that the most logical sense would be to destroy it when they found it. Why would somebody split the bad item in 2 and keep them separated ? It does not make sense, but then with a title "The Mummy", common sense does not work. On the other hand, please give the benefit that the viewers of the movie are not all the idiots who like to keep dangerous stuff as a memento.
Despite all the hocus-pocus of powerful mummy that "defy human comprehension", the ending is very disappointing. Is it because the director or the screen-writer is already out of ideas ? I would have expected a bigger bang on the ending.
Like I said at the beginning, the story line is so bad. I am very disappointed with Tom Cruise's acting. Annabelle Wallis is just like somebody who just started to act and all her expression are just dumb. If want to throw away $20 or $15 or whatever the cost of the ticket, just buy a lottery ticket. You might still have a chance to win. Watching this movie is a sure loss bet.
To begin with, the introduction of the story takes too long. Going all over the place from the Crusade to London and Iraq/Mesopotamia. To make it legit, the director seemed to remember that there was some armies who were shooting stone statue. Next come an woman who is an expert on the stone which so clean and fresh like she was just out from taking a long shower. I really must say that the costume designer of this movie has no idea what an female archaeologist should look like when they are dressed for work. Surely not with a long flowing hair and silk scarf plus some neat trousers.
To make it more ridiculous, Tom Cruise is playing as an absent minded American troops, who seems to have his commanding officer under his thumb. This is really a disgrace for the US army. It is more confusing later when the archaeologist is actually working for a British officials. People would have thought that a US army will bring whatever they found to the US base, but not on this one. They carried the finding to the UK ? Why ? Can't they come up with a more logical story line ?
If you want to destroy something bad, I would have thought that the most logical sense would be to destroy it when they found it. Why would somebody split the bad item in 2 and keep them separated ? It does not make sense, but then with a title "The Mummy", common sense does not work. On the other hand, please give the benefit that the viewers of the movie are not all the idiots who like to keep dangerous stuff as a memento.
Despite all the hocus-pocus of powerful mummy that "defy human comprehension", the ending is very disappointing. Is it because the director or the screen-writer is already out of ideas ? I would have expected a bigger bang on the ending.
Like I said at the beginning, the story line is so bad. I am very disappointed with Tom Cruise's acting. Annabelle Wallis is just like somebody who just started to act and all her expression are just dumb. If want to throw away $20 or $15 or whatever the cost of the ticket, just buy a lottery ticket. You might still have a chance to win. Watching this movie is a sure loss bet.
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