The Mummy 2017

Reviews (22)

1. T

   Tasha Robinson 8 月 22, 2026

   Things you can clearly see, watching this movie: 1) The influence of the 1932 version of The Mummy 2) The influence of the 1999 version of The Mummy 3) Tom Cruise mandating certain action beats and stunt scenes 4) The studio demanding hooks for the Dark Universe franchise Things you can’t clearly see: 1) Why this movie exists for its own sake. Full review for The Verge here.

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2. H

   haley 8 月 22, 2026

   if they had actually made this more about the mummy and less about tom cruise, it might have had some potential

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3. D

   demi adejuyigbe 8 月 22, 2026

   honestly cannot even give it a rating because i fell asleep and woke up scenes later about 7 times

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4. A

   ava adore 8 月 22, 2026

   My question is how the fuck does the world go on after shit like this like oh yeah okay these 12th century crusade skeletons just awoke and killed many people and a sexy little egyptian lady who was mummified alive just fucking destroyed half of London and wants her revenge so she put a curse on tom cruise No big deal or anything glad that’s been addressed

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5. P

   Patrick Willems 8 月 22, 2026

   It is so god damn weird that Tom Cruise is in this movie

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6. S

   Sam 8 月 22, 2026

   It’s a good thing I had to pee for 75% of this because at least I got to feel something.

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7. D

   David Sims 8 月 22, 2026

   90 minutes of horribly directed action interspersed with 20 minutes of rambling exposition, but hey, Russell Crowe turns purple at one point

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8. D

   davidehrlich 8 月 22, 2026

   What made Tom Cruise a movie star? It wasn’t his toothy smile or his all-American dimples. It wasn’t that he was cocky enough to be loved, but also vulnerable enough to be lovable, although that certainly helped. It wasn’t even the fact that the way he runs on screen tells us more about the fundamental nature of cinema than anyone has conveyed with a stride since Eadweard Muybridge trained his camera on a galloping horse. No, Tom Cruise became a movie star because he possessed something that galvanized all of those individual qualities into something special — a need for quality control. Just consider those credits: “Risky Business.” “Top Gun.” “Born on the Fourth of July.” Cruise was a human…

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9. A

   anna 8 月 22, 2026

   another day raiding egyptian tombs. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the mummy. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

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10. E

    elizabeth 🌛 8 月 22, 2026

    Idk about y’all but I was really rooting for Ahmanet… every time she punched Tom Cruise was gay culture at work

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11. C

    caitlin 8 月 22, 2026

    …….and people really think Netflix is killing cinema?

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12. M

    matt lynch 8 月 22, 2026

    Incredibly dopey but thankfully not entirely without a sense of humor about itself. At least Cruise is having a good time as an unscrupulous rake destined to become evil incarnate.

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13. T

    toufy 12 月 17, 2024

    saw the bad reviews, and thought, “_it’s probably not **that** bad. it’s probably mostly just people who thought it didn’t live up to the original’s standards._”

    it **is** that bad.

    not the worst i’ve ever seen, but it. is. so. bad.

14. G

    GenerationofSwine 1 月 14, 2023

    Well, I do openly hate remakes and reboots. Movies like the Mummy I tend to give a pass to, mainly because that’s what you do with movies like that.

    But…Were they remaking the Mummy or where they Remaking American Werewolf in London? Or were they remaking Hellboy? Or were they remaking League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? In the end its hard to tell, there were far too many similarities between all those films that I’m kind of shocked they haven’t gotten sued for plagiarism.

    The problem isn’t that it couldn’t decide what direction it wanted to go in, the problem is that it couldn’t decide what movie it wanted to reboot.

15. R

    r96sk 11 月 22, 2020

    A disappointment.

    ‘The Mummy’ begins with promise. I initially enjoyed the duo of Tom Cruise and Jake Johnson, the plot set-up and the location choice of London. Russell Crowe is a standout name too. However, sadly, the film gets progressively worse throughout the 110 minutes.

    The premise kinda just falls into itself, with any interest disappearing pretty quickly. The link between Cruise and Johnson becomes tiresome, as does all the comedy in the film in truth – there’s a few chuckles, but nothing laugh worthy. The zombie vibe doesn’t fit, either.

    What also doesn’t help is the fact they’re blatantly trying to set up a film universe of some sort, which they put too much focus on. I found the effects hit-and-miss, I feel like they could’ve used more practical stuff rather than relying so much on CGI – for the make-up et al. at least.

    Cruise leads ably and does a decent enough job – he has done far greater of course. Crowe never really gets going in my opinion, though does have a couple of cool to look at scenes late on. Sofia Boutella is alright, as is Annabelle Wallis. A meh for the cast.

    Nothing diabolical, but a fair distance from good too.

16. W

    Wuchak 12 月 5, 2019

    ***Adventure, thrills, horror, Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis***

    Two American soldiers & treasure-hunters (Tom Cruise and Jake Johnson) discover the tomb of evil Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), who attempted to summon the death-god Set but was seized and mummified alive. They and an attractive archaeologist (Annabelle Wallis) fly Ahmanet’s sarcophagus to Britain when all hell breaks loose. Russell Crowe is also on hand.

    “The Mummy” (2017) is the reboot of The Mummy trilogy of 1999-2008 and the first official film in Universal’s Dark Universe franchise, which reimagines & updates the classic universal monsters. The producers flirted with the idea of “Dracula Untold” (2014) being part of the Dark Universe, and the epilogue of that movie set in the modern world suggested this, but the idea was dropped. While “The Mummy” garnered $410 million worldwide, it was considered a disappointment and critics generally lambasted it.

    I found the modern setting a nice change of environment compared to the late 1920s-40s of the previous trilogy; it prevented it from being the same-old-same-old. I also didn’t mind the various locations outside of ancient Egypt, e.g. northern Iraq and England; even Hammer’s version from 1959 started in Egypt, but quickly moved to England. I also favored the switch to a female mummy and that the slightly convoluted story kept you guessing. So the flick gets points for NOT being one-dimensional and hackneyed.

    I enjoyed it for the most part, although it coulda been more compelling in the latter portions. It has the same spirit of high adventure of the 1999 movie mixed with gothic horror (including creepy zombies) and a bit o’ comedy, but not too much. While the curious inclusion of Dr. Jekyll (Crowe) smacked of pushing the new franchise, it didn’t ruin the viewing experience. And winsome Wallis doesn’t hurt.

    The film runs 1 hour, 50 minutes, and was shot in England; Burbank, California; and the Namib Desert, Namibia.

    GRADE: B

17. R

    Reno 11 月 4, 2017

    **The first in the Universal studio’s ‘Dark Universe’!**

    If you see the history, the reboots usually fails. It has to be at least half a century old to reboot like ‘King Kong’. So the technology advantage would play a major role. It was less than the 20 years, the last ‘The Mummy’ film had released and pretty impressed everybody with modern visual effects. Even today’s young generation getting used to that when it was played on the television. Comparing this to that, there’s nothing much other than more perfection in graphics and additional digital 3D. In my opinion, they should have waited another decade.

    It was exactly reversed version of the 1999 film. I mean the character designs. Like female mummy coming to life and targeting a man for the ultimate power possession. Two US army men in Iraq found a hidden tomb like structure from the Egyptian era beneath the sand. The recovered ancient coffin shipped to England, but the plane crash down. Since then, an unknown force begins to hunt down one of that two army men. Fighting against it, followed by how the story ends comes in the later parts.

    When I first heard about the reboot, I said oh no! Hearing about Tom Cruise’s involvement, it became double no! Actually, he was good in the film, but the film was unnecessary at this generation. Even though it did good at the box office, it was considered a decent run. But the studio has a bigger plan, that you would know if you watch the film, that they had already developed a plot for at least two more films with enough characters to carry on that long. If needed, it would add more in the latter. I feel that’s a bad idea right now. Watching it one time is not bad, but no special at all.

    _5.5/10_

18. J

    John Chard 10 月 29, 2017

    Disappointingly unoriginal and average.

    So here we go, then, Universal begin their rebirth of the Universal Creature franchise (Dark Universe) with a crack at old bandage features, The Mummy, sadly the result is very average at best. You would think that with so many “Mummy” films of the past already on the market this new lease of life would be giving us, well, something new to gorge on, but what we actually get is a painfully familiar.

    From a summer blockbuster audience pleaser point of view it has the requisite effects work, it’s loud, rambunctious and has Cruise and Crowe for star wattage, but Cruise is going through the motions, Crowe is laughably miscast (with a later dreadful accent issue to compound the misery), while the rest of the cast play second fiddle to the over egged effects work.

    It’s neither dark enough as a head bothering thinker or witty enough to tickle the funny bone, in fact it at times is very dull. There’s also the worrying attempts at crossing over into further creature feature ventures, a big reveal for a main character is sloppily handled, whilst the finale lands as flat as a pancake.

    There’s some nice touches, the “Mummy” design is sharp (love those eyes), a plane crash is exhilarating and the film’s stand out sequence, and the tomb/prison design is neat, but after that you start to scratch around for positives, which in itself tells a story. At least it looks and sounds great in HD, the colours and sub-woofer shakes a treat for the senses.

    It’s all well and good people asking for it not to be judged by other Mummy films, but the creators here make that inevitable. Lifting the plot from one of the 1940’s films, and even stealing a scene from the Stephen Sommers school of Mummy film making. It’s unoriginal and as an opening salvo for a franchise it leaves Universal with a hell of a lot of work to do to make it work. 5/10

19. D

    Dark Jedi 10 月 27, 2017

    In view of the reviews this movie has received I was not expecting much. Being a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror fan I had to watch it regardless of what people said about it of course.
    I have to say that I do not understand why so many seem to claim it is utter crap. Sure, it is not a great movie but it is not really bad either.

    It is not just a remake of the original The Mummy movies which I think is actually good. That concept is becoming a bit deja vue after all.

    To me the worst part of the movie was Tom Cruise. Total lack of charisma. He really do not succeed in his role. He is mostly wondering about being meh and just reacts to the various situations he is thrown into.

    Russell Crowe is a lot better as Doctor Jekyll. I quite like Doctor Jekyll being thrown into the mix by the way. I think his role worked quite well and was well played.

    Being a mummy movie there are of course a lot of supernatural stuff, curses, monsters and action. In general I think it was reasonably well done. The special effects were enjoyable and the mummy herself, Sofia Boutella, was not bad at all.

    On the whole the movie and the story held a lot of promise but in the end the overall performance failed to really impress. There were plenty of good things but they were just not put to good work. I think the movie would have fared a lot better with a more charismatic lead in it and perhaps a bit better script for him.

    Bottom line, I did enjoy the movie. As I wrote it is not really bad but it could have been quite a bit better. The good parts were sometimes really good but in between it felt like everyone went to lunch and let the janitors have a go at movie making.

20. G

    Gimly 8 月 9, 2017

    Remember when _Dracula Untold_ was supposed to kick off Universal’s Monster-Movie franchise, but then they canned that because of how poorly received that movie was? Well get ready to go straight back to the drawing board Universal, because _The Mummy_ isn’t even half the movie that _Dracula Untold_ was. Sofia Boutella as the titular Mummy is the movie’s one redeeming feature, but she far from salvages this train-wreck.

    _Final rating:★½: – Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._

21. R

    Rocketeer Raccoon 6 月 25, 2017

    Honestly, this film screwed up big time and it’s not as good as the 1999 film, most people are going to compare this film to that and I don’t blame them. Tome Cruise was like a walking joke in this and while I saw this in the cinema, people were laughing during an action scene that was actually badly put together and I didn’t realise this until now. This is pretty much a mix bag of a film which is a shameful way to start off a new cinematic universe of the Dark Universe.

22. P

    panic jr8 6 月 20, 2017

    Oh gosh. Where do I even start. This film sucks.

    Now before I begin to tear this film into shreds, let me give you some background. I was excited for this movie. I love Tom Cruise. I love Sofia Boutella. I love Russell Crowe. I love the Universal Monsters.

    Lets just say I was disappointed.

    This film has some of the worst tonal problems in a film ever. An inconsistent tone is my biggest pet peeve. Sometimes it’s scary. Sometimes it’s a huge action blockbuster. Sometimes it’s trying to be like Brendan Frasier’s “The Mummy.” It doesn’t know what it is.

    The female lead (who’s name I can’t remember) is incredibly bland. Not her acting, she’s actually quite good. It’s the writing is what makes her bad.

    Jake Johnson’s character is one of the most annoying characters in a movie ever. And I mean that. I hated almost every scene he was in.

    The few high notes: Sofia Boutella kills it. Russell Crowe is delightfully campy. Tom Cruise gives another solid performance despite his character being super unlikable.

    Alex Kurtzman is what hurts this film. The direction is quite bland. Kurtzman is a bad screenwriter and a just as bad director.

    This film is a mess. Tonal problems and bland writing. Some fun action scenes and performances can’t keep this film from being a boring trainwreck.

    1.3/5.0