Movie · 2017 · Fantasy, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror · 1h 50m · PG-13 · English
Curator score: 0.2/10 (445K ratings)
Welcome to a new world of gods and monsters.
Overview
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.2/10
IMDb: 5.4/10
Letterboxd: 1.94/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 15%
Metacritic: 34
TMDB: 5.5/10
Director
Alex Kurtzman
Production
Secret Hideout, Universal Pictures, Conspiracy Factory, Sean Daniel Company
Cast
Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Russell Crowe, Marwan Kenzari, Neil Maskell, Javier Botet, Andrew Brooke, Selva Rasalingam, Shanina Shaik, Dylan Smith, Hadrian Howard, Rez Kempton, Bella Ava Georgiou, David Burnett, Stephen Thompson, James Arama, Vera Chok
Where to watch
Max
Curator Review
Verdict
A loud, franchise-launching mashup that never finds a stable tone, The Mummy is more cluttered than thrilling. It has a few watchable action beats and a committed lead performance, but the movie is weighed down by exposition, generic spectacle, and a sense that it’s setting up a universe instead of telling a satisfying story.
Best for
Viewers curious about the failed Dark Universe experiment
Fans of glossy studio action with a horror-adventure shell
Tom Cruise completists
People who enjoy campy blockbuster misfires
Skip if
You want a tight, monster-forward adventure
You’re looking for genuine scares or atmosphere
You dislike heavy exposition and franchise setup
You prefer horror with a stronger sense of style or personality
Overview
The 2017 The Mummy is one of those big studio attempts that feels engineered from multiple competing ideas at once: old-school monster movie, modern action vehicle, and franchise pilot. The result is noisy and overstuffed, with scenes that seem to be waiting for the next piece of lore rather than building momentum on their own.
Worth noting
There are flashes of fun, especially in the more reckless action passages and in the movie’s willingness to lean into pulp absurdity. But the film rarely commits to any one flavor long enough to make it stick. It wants to be spooky, funny, and mythic, yet often lands as dutiful.
Bottom line
What lingers most is the mismatch between the material and the machinery around it. The cast is game, the premise has real B-movie appeal, but the movie never fully escapes the feeling of a corporate product trying to become a monster movie after the fact.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Patrick Willems (2★) · 1281 likes
It is so god damn weird that Tom Cruise is in this movie
Sam (1★) · 1106 likes
It's a good thing I had to pee for 75% of this because at least I got to feel something.
davidehrlich (1★) · 774 likes
What made Tom Cruise a movie star? It wasn’t his toothy smile or his all-American dimples. It wasn’t that he was cocky enough to be loved, but also vulnerable enough to be lovable, although that certainly helped. It wasn’t even the fact that the way he runs on screen tells us more about the fundamental nature of cinema than anyone has conveyed with a stride since Eadweard Muybridge trained his camera on a galloping horse. No, Tom Cruise became a… more What made Tom Cruise a movie star? It wasn’t his toothy smile or his all-American dimples. It wasn’t that he was cocky enough to be loved, but also vulnerable enough to be lovable, although that certainly helped. It wasn’t even the fact that the way he runs on screen tells us more about the fundamental nature of cinema than anyone has conveyed with a stride since Eadweard Muybridge trained his camera on a galloping horse. No, Tom Cruise became a… more
elizabeth 🌛 (0.5★) · 700 likes
Idk about y'all but I was really rooting for Ahmanet... every time she punched Tom Cruise was gay culture at work
David Sims (1.5★) · 548 likes
90 minutes of horribly directed action interspersed with 20 minutes of rambling exposition, but hey, Russell Crowe turns purple at one point
2022 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 1h 52m · PG-13 · Curator 1.5/10 (530.1K ratings) · Where to watch: Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Netflix Standard with Ads
A modern, self-aware adventure that understands how to keep the tone breezy and entertaining.