Lately, Cruise has been pretty good at making really entertaining films, so it seems like an intriguing match to have him star in a role like this. Cruise plays Nick Morton, a treasure hunting soldier who has the unfortunate luck of stumbling upon and raising Ahmanet from her tomb. With the promise of a scarier mummy this time around, Arnold Vosloo's Imhotep has been replaced with a female monster this time, and with the story set in present day. And, to kick it off, The Mummy leads the way, with action superstar Tom Cruise carrying the torch.
#The mummy movie review series
Now, in the spirit of Hollywood's growing trend of "cinematic universes" - where a series of standalone movies are interconnected - Universal Studios has birthed "Dark Universe," uniting the classic Universal Pictures monsters for the first time. Sadly, two abysmal, forced sequels later, and The Mummy franchise was back in the ground.
The Indiana Jones-style action/adventure film lead by Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz was by no means perfect, but it was enough to win over fans of various movie genres. 1999 saw the first major remake of the 1932 original and it became a surprise mega hit at the box office. In the age of remakes and sequels and remakes of remakes, it should come as little surprise that Universal would revisit their hit franchise, The Mummy. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main).Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main).