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There's a bejeweled dagger that has significance, but it's hard to suss out its exact powers because, if I'm not mistaken, they change at the whim of the movie. The movie establishes a repetitive rhythm, wherein Nick and his female companion Jenny (Annabelle Wallis, exuding nothing but boredom) ask each other sober questions about the nature of their predicament both before and after making a daring getaway from Ahmanet's destructive assaults. What we do know clearly is that Morton has been cursed by Ahmanet and cannot die, which gives her ample opportunity to capture and sacrifice him, although this turns out to be harder that you would think for an all-powerful goddess, as waves of sand, countless ambushes of mummies and other methods of attack consistently prove fruitless. There's a whole lot of exposition going on throughout the film, so much so that we're actually more confused as things move along as opposed to enlightened. Forcing an unwilling accomplice (Jake Johnson) on his schemes and destroying goodwill wherever he goes, Nick gets a comeuppance of sorts when Ahmanet sets her sights on him to be her "chosen one," a vessel that will eventually be inhabited by Set, the Egyptian god of war and chaos. The main player is Nick Morton (Cruise) a selfish scoundrel who uses his job working reconnaissance for the army as a means to plunder priceless artifacts and treasures. Kurtzman's film is not exactly a remake of either previous Universal film title THE MUMMY – the 1932 B&W creeper starring Boris Karloff or the goofy 1999 adventure by Stephen Sommers – but it tells a familiar story of the resurrection of a mummified Egyptian, in this case, a princess named Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), and the dire consequences for the humans involved with her awakening. (The fact that THE MUMMY has six credited screenwriters and three editors is not lost on you as you watch it.) Neither bad enough to be considered an unmitigated disaster nor good enough to leave any kind of lasting impression, this new MUMMY is about as inconsequential as you can get.
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With Tom Cruise leading the way as a surprisingly unappealing protagonist, the film constantly appears to be rewriting itself, adding on arbitrary rules to its central storyline while clumsily attempting to world-build for future sequels/spinoffs.
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REVIEW: Universal's first attempt at relaunching their classic monsters series (Dark Universe, is what it's being called) is Alex Kurtzman's THE MUMMY, a messy, confusing, and only occasionally entertaining hodgepodge of action movie, horror movie and horror-comedy. PLOT: After disturbing the tomb of an evil Egyptian princess, a man finds himself cursed to be a vessel for Set, the god of chaos.