His much younger love interest, Jenny (Annabelle Wallis), only exists to help develop Cruise’s character through her role as damsel in distress. Cruise may be the human sacrifice in the film, but every other character is sacrificed for him. The truly unfathomable aspect of this film is that it took three story creators and three screenplay writers to create one film that is essentially a vehicle to showcase Tom Cruise’s viability as an action star at any age. I’m not talking about Tom Cruise this time, but the mummy that is so hollowly developed, it would have had the same on screen impact if it remained the human husk it started the film as. There is a great evil that gets set on the world after human greed unknowingly sets it free. What we end up is a movie about Cruise’s greatest hits, mostly stunts we’ve seen in much better films than this one. So much so that the camera rarely deviates its attention from him, sacrificing any chance to showcase the other actors/characters in the film. Director Alex Kurtzman, whose previous directing credits include the melodrama People Like Us and an episode of Alias, seems to be overwhelmed when it comes to Tom Cruise. The focus of the film shifts so much from what/who it should be (the mummy, duh) that it completely changes the film’s genre from horror to something more horrific that I call Cruise-control. The Mummy surprises us early on, delivering something other than what we were promised, and being all the worst for it. Reading the title of the film is enough to give you an idea what the film is about, or so that’s what we thought.
This film won’t be garnering any applause, but it will be forgotten by the next day.
Griffith: “Movies are written in sand applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.” The Mummy has all the foundation and substance of sand, but when combined with the hot air bravado of Tom Cruise just creates a recipe for self-destruction. Sitting through The Mummy reminds me of a quote from the father of modern filmmaking, D. There are quotes that once you read are etched in your mind forever.
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