55
There are moments where it reaches out for horror and produces something interesting and distinct from Hollywood’s other blockbusters, but those moments are buried beneath unremarkable and, by the end, tedious action sequences.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
67
Entertainment Weekly by Chris Nashawaty
I’m not sure that this aimless, lukewarm take on The Mummy is how the studio dreamed that its Dark Universe would begin. But it’s just good enough to keep you curious about what comes next.
16
It’s not that it’s bad, it’s that it never could have been good. It’s an irredeemable disaster from start to finish, an adventure that entertains only via glimpses of the adventure it should have been.
40
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
Everything about The Mummy strains solely towards setting up a franchise in a world which only makes sense to its writers.
40
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Weirdly out of place here, Cruise brings little daring and less charm to the film, though to be fair to the actor, his character's a stiff.
40
New Orleans Times-Picayune by Mike Scott
The core of The Mummy is built around a mostly fun, fast-moving vibe, while its malformed midsection seeks to undermine anything good it has accomplished.
40
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It’s a ragbag of action scenes which needed to be bandaged more tightly.
30
This “Mummy” is rags that produce no riches.
63
Action-packed and patently ridiculous, it’s all in good fun.
40
New York Daily News by Stephen Whitty
Sure it’s got big, blurry action scenes, a plane crash, and an army of dusty, mindless zombies. But I think some of them may have been the screenwriters, because the movie’s practically lifeless.