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The mummy (tom cruise)
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The reviews were so terrible, I am not wasting time and money seeing this until I can just pay a buck for Redbox or get a decent quality free stream on it.
Also.. prior thread:
http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/arts-and-entertainment/90619-mummy-1999-2017-a.html
Also.. prior thread:
http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/arts-and-entertainment/90619-mummy-1999-2017-a.html
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Finally watched this last night.
The movie didn't really know what it wanted to be, so it ended up being nothing except kind of bland and misguided. Kind of a funny buddy pic for the first 20 minutes, then slowly unwound into a heap of empty gauze wrappings. I guess it did best as an "action" pic but there was no real tension in the film. There were also just lots of dumb plot things that you could ignore in a silly buddy film (if the whole tone is kind of silly) but not in a film that tried at times to take itself a little more seriously.
For example
The "mummy" wasn't actually scary or even unsettling, and in fact early in the film when she appears, she almost makes you laugh when she's lurking about. It's getting close to on par with the terrible Enchantress character from Suicide Squad. It's hard to connect with anyone in this film, except maybe Jake Johnson as the "buddy" who seems to understand his role best... which is essentially the same one Griffin Dunne played in "An American Werewolf in London," and maybe Annabelle Wallis who is the non-love interest who is mostly an innocent bystander.
Also a case of putting the cart before the horse. Russell Crowe's character and the group he represents obviously map out the entire arc for their "monsters" franchise but he's bland and the group seems incompetent, etc. It's all pretty sketchy.
Basically there are a lot of ways this movie could have gone (direction wise) but no one really had a vision for it. They needed a script/plot doctor to come in, since this was more a collection of ideas and first-draft kind of treatment, to hone the film and get it anchored in, weed out crap, tighten it up, etc.
Yeah, and I agree about Cruise, aside from him just being in too much action franchise stuff (so it scans as a Tom Cruise vehicle, not a Universal Monsters picture). He's doing his "witty, slightly sardonic" Cruise here, but probably the weakest rendition of it... and he is looking older.
The movie didn't really know what it wanted to be, so it ended up being nothing except kind of bland and misguided. Kind of a funny buddy pic for the first 20 minutes, then slowly unwound into a heap of empty gauze wrappings. I guess it did best as an "action" pic but there was no real tension in the film. There were also just lots of dumb plot things that you could ignore in a silly buddy film (if the whole tone is kind of silly) but not in a film that tried at times to take itself a little more seriously.
For example
The "mummy" wasn't actually scary or even unsettling, and in fact early in the film when she appears, she almost makes you laugh when she's lurking about. It's getting close to on par with the terrible Enchantress character from Suicide Squad. It's hard to connect with anyone in this film, except maybe Jake Johnson as the "buddy" who seems to understand his role best... which is essentially the same one Griffin Dunne played in "An American Werewolf in London," and maybe Annabelle Wallis who is the non-love interest who is mostly an innocent bystander.
Also a case of putting the cart before the horse. Russell Crowe's character and the group he represents obviously map out the entire arc for their "monsters" franchise but he's bland and the group seems incompetent, etc. It's all pretty sketchy.
Basically there are a lot of ways this movie could have gone (direction wise) but no one really had a vision for it. They needed a script/plot doctor to come in, since this was more a collection of ideas and first-draft kind of treatment, to hone the film and get it anchored in, weed out crap, tighten it up, etc.
Yeah, and I agree about Cruise, aside from him just being in too much action franchise stuff (so it scans as a Tom Cruise vehicle, not a Universal Monsters picture). He's doing his "witty, slightly sardonic" Cruise here, but probably the weakest rendition of it... and he is looking older.
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