The Mummy reviewed by Mark Kermode 

Still far too relevant in 2019...

@@Sapphonouveau I think with Endgame out the way we won't universed again for a while

@@493HZ marvel is coming with those shows and star wars too..so much oversaturated with contents

Aaron Ducker Someone should do a secret society exposition superrcut. 'Well, let me explain, Mr. Protagonist. No one is supposed to know about our vast and well funded operation, but since you have stumbled in the door, let me tell you everything.'

It was a good film, could have been a great movie, Tom Cruise is what ruined it!

This killed me

you dont hire that much writers unless the script is no good. at times like that they usually get people like Damon Lindelof to try and fix it; which seldom happens (Prometheus, tomorrowland, WW Z).

Universal need to remember what made them a good studio in the first place: Good directors and writers

Everyone wants a piece of the pie. It the same problem with Spectre, that film had 4 writers.

Apparently this film was a D.O.A since development began; April 2012 this film was officially announced and Jon Spaihts lead the charge as the first screenwriter.By the time the film settled on Alex Kurtzman as the director, the film had announced another screenwriter writing a competitive draft (which they ultimately scrapped), two directors walking from the project, and rumors of Christopher McQuarrie's involvement due to casting Tom Cruise (which turned out to be true).Jon Spaihts remained among the longest known contributors to the film, and only received a story credit.

Malt454 Sadly that's Hollywood. Writing by committee.

Mummy Impossible

Show me the Mummy!!

Mummy buisness

LOL

THUMBS UP WHAT ???

The video went up a few days ago

He said that he enjoyed it on the Podcast. The "punch up" at the end lost him a bit, but on the whole he liked it.

Oh, you're right, my mistake.

Kermode Uncut, We Demand IT!!

RADMANRB I would too. Every year there's always a big blockbuster film I'd love him to review and he doesn't lol! Holidays Grrr ;)

TUMBLEWEED

1) Universal pictures 2) ........ I'll get back to you on that.

I would watch it if the main character was Alan Partridge. Dan! Dan! Dan! Dan! Dan? DAAAN?? Wait That's not Dan ITS A MUMMMMMMMY RUUNNNN HES A MENTALIST!!!

I thought it was a bit on the nose to cast Tom Cruise in the role of the blushing princess from the original.

What a horribly depressing comment

3 years, and no one even mentioned where you copied your opinions from, nearly word for word. Sad.

well considering this was on in production back then I'm assuming a similar film

call of hubbert

Thank Ridley Scott for making Prometheus first.

But Guillermo Del Toro was going to be in charge. Unlike a lot of folks in Hollywood (such as the infamous Bay) Del Toro actually shows respect for the original material, as shown in the Hellboy Flicks.

It actually is Tom Cruise's fault, at least partly. A lot of hardcore Scientologists are only allowed to watch one film every year or so- a Tom Cruise vehicle. Consequently, he's made a point to only play brazenly heroic/decent/vanilla characters so as not to disappoint his fellow Scientologists watching him. Were he allowed to let some moral ambiguity seep in there, his films might be more interesting, if perhaps a little dispiriting for those couple of thousand Scientologist brethren wanting their hero to be all heroic by doing heroic stuff heroically. Not that I watch many of them, but I suspect Edge of Tomorrow may have been one of the rare recent Cruise vehicles to slip through that whole process with its dignity intact.

Simon Maxwell-Stewart except Tropic Thunder of course. Good story

!! Good point, if pedantic :-)

I'll take your word for it!

In that Ben Stiller & Robert Downey vehicle: Tropic Thunder! Tom plays a fat balding movie mogul

True, I don't even know if he ever watched a movie, probably just trailers or posters.

Fringe

@@luke-alex not familiar with it. Worth checking out? Change my opinion on him?

@@haveanotherpinacolada Well it's one of my favourite TV shows, so I certainly recommend it!

The English actors read the script and were all 'busy' when filming would take place. 'But we haven't told you when filming will be'. 'I'm still busy.'

No, the movie seems flat because the script is awful: the plot is dull and the dialogue is clunky. A good writer with a free hand could make a good mummy film like falling off a log; everything is already there. I'm pretty sure that - like Dustin Hoffman - Cruise has his own script guy, which may explain why this film became Mission Impossible with monsters.

It did.

it didn't

nah....a lot of us loved the new approach! just that critics want the old approach instead