But the $ 80 million gross domestic debt has raised doubts about the viability of the entire "Dark Universe" franchise. The film is fair, the film has been stocked around the world for $ 300 million, but this is still not the boffo of today's standards (especially the $ 125 million production budget). But the numbers are set aside, what counts the quality of the film. And the mummy directed by Alex Kurtzman (primarily a writer and producer so far), comes out as a clever but indistinguishable action thriller. In fact, you feel that every participant (including usually hyper-committed Cruise) is just telephoning, and you only have to make the effort to check out all blocks on the blockbuster checklist.
The prologue in 1127 was the legend of the former princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella). Ahmanet considers himself a heir to his father's throne, but the second marriage of late life results in a baby brother for Ahmanet. Not enjoying the competition to become a pharaoh, he is in the form of a killer rampage. He was mummified in life as a punishment for killing his family, only centuries later deadly mercenary / adventurer Nick Morton (Cruise) and Chris (Jake Johnson) accidentally resurrected. Jennifer Halsey's (Annabelle Wallis) legitimate archeologist disrupts Nick and Chris's intervention, but he himself finds the ride as Ahmanet continues the murder.
Just as the story is about Crowe Dr. Jekyll, the secret society Prodigium and the various supernatural complications, the Mummy becomes increasingly disconcerting. Since Kurtzman's director is dealing with a story he has invented (although the script is credited outside three writers), he feels that the answer to the narrative problems of the film was to cast as many special effects on the screen as possible. Nick and Jennifer have a romantic little DOA, thanks to the small screen between Cruise and Wallis. Humor-related experiments are on a regular basis.
Crowe turns to the most interesting performance, and is impressed with arousing anger when Mr. Hyde's person appears. But maybe his passion might have made Nick Morton better than Cruise. As Cruise manages, Nick is a vicious-assistant behavior that makes it harder to invest anything from his trip to a mercenary "money", a target-minded, soul-searching person. Crowe Nick and Cruise, like Dr. Jekyll, were truly adventurous, less predictable casts.
But he probably would not have saved the film from his own mediocre threat. There are some rockin 'action sets that led to the collapse of a spectacular plane that they've probably seen with the trailer of the movie. While the big action thing was probably working on a giant IMAX 3D screen, Mummy at least attenuates Mummy's "summer event movie" expectations for smaller-scale home viewing.
The Universal Blu-ray is technically far from naked and perfectly illustrates the spooky 35mm film-based cinematography of Ben Seresin. Dolby Atmos audio is by default a robust Dolby TrueHD 7.1 surround sound experience. Even if the story is not impressed, the mummy offers a reference quality BD presentation.
A large selection of bonus materials includes an audio commentary (Alex Kurtzman director, associate members: Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis and Jake Johnson), five minutes of deleted / extended scenes, "Ahmanet Reborn Animated Graphic Novel" and eight characters. The most important is the 20-minute "Cruise and Kurtzman: A Conversation" and the rest in the short-ex (five to eight minutes), semi-promotional-oriented "making" pieces.
Dracula Untold (2014) was originally the launch of the "Dark Universe", but it was not a good reception and the Mummy was the rebirth. After receiving the reception, you wonder how the Frankenstein Bride of the "Dark Universe" can be integrated
