The Mummy (2017) Movie Review
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Is it horror? Is it action? Is it a Marvel wannabe? Here's our initial reaction of this bizarre first chapter of Universal's monster reboots, from the company that originally invented the "shared universe" back in the 40s with "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman."
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The Brandon Frasier movie worked because it was not a comedy or an action movie. It was an *adventure* movie. Sort of like the original Indiana Jones movies.
Andrew exactly. It was the perfect blend of horror, humor and action. Especially the 2nd one. The scorpion King thing was stupid but everything before the final act was dope.
Andrew the Hamunaptra series was brilliant. I absolutely adore the series. The best thing about those movies were the characters. So good. Im-hotep
Was a brilliant baddy as well.
So what if i accidentally wrote Brent Spiner. People know who i meant.
The Brandon Frasier ones were awesome.
I never saw it was a remake or reboot of the old Universal Mummy movies. It was an adventure movie that had to do with Egypt and a mummy. Granted I was a kid and Rachel Weisz' beauty entranced me. I
Godzilla era - 64 years
Bond era - 55 years
Dark Universe era - 2 hours
Godzilla was 64 during this upload
Lil Miss Know-It-All doesn't know when Godzilla came out
@@austins.2495 well we can help
@@austins.2495 I think I literally forgot type in the "64", my bad
@@lilmissknowitall5775 sure.
When you make a movie so bad it cancels an entire series
What did you think of Tom's Character
Movies aren't lacking budget, but they are sure lacking heart. Like how they had when I was growing up in the 90s and hell even before.
They lack brains.
@@handsomebrick They lack both. A decline in the arts shows a societal decline.
RIP Dark Universe 2017-2017
It was doomed before it started :3
(Dark Universe 2017-2017.1) I'll give them that.
RageJoona Oh hi there! :D Damn I need to watch your two newest reviews. I somehow totally missed them D:
Nitromian it was doomed from the start
Nitromian it was doomed from the start
I will take the 2000s Mummy over this.
Alex Lopresti
I have that one on Laserdisc
The Shadow Man I have both on Firestick.
It was cheesy fun.
pottman101 Actually entertaining to watch.
I loved the 2000s Mummy movies because I grew up as a kid with the Indianna Jones and it had the same vibes
subtlety is completely lost on people right now, everything has to be massively overdone.
Universal should have done this Monster/Dark Universe in similar fashion to the tv-show ''Penny Dreadful''.As a drak,gritty,atmospheric,gothic horror-drama,set in Victorian England or maybe after WW I,with more emphasis on characters,*not* as a Michael Bay/Roland Emmerich style CGI-fest.
James should review Penny Dreadful
But that requires woooorrrrrk...! 😢
0:40. "It's not good." end of review. lol
5:45 frames it better
hahaha.... so 0:40 for James, 5:45 for Mike
I'll stop at 5:44 then, thanks.
10:13
"Van Helsing as better than this" is also a nice review
*also throw in league of extraordinary gentlemen as a guilty pleasure* Just watch Penny Dreadful if you want an intriguing take on monsters :) Love it to death!
Mission Impossible: Edge of Jack Reacher Interview with the Mummy
Tadicuslegion78 literally
War of the Worlds actually got pretty good reviews. Don't know why it was so hated by some people.
in oblivion
Top Mum
Tadicuslegion78 Mission Impossible 69: Edge of Jack Reaches Her Behind.
if Universal had this idea of shared universe earlier,we could have a brandon fraser mummy crossover with hugh jackman van hellsing...........
That would've been awesome!
All those movies had a great sense of adventure and fun. I would gladly take Van Helsing over a lot of the colorless drecks we're getting now.
thats is true
van helsing had the coolest werewolf ever. I enjoyed the movie.
yksnimus Absolutely! Still unmatched!
Van Helsing with Jackman was better than this? holy Shit...
Yeah at least Stephen summers had the right idea.
I had a feeling this movie would flop
Eternal Kick everyone did
LoL, the producers and executives didn't =P
6 screen writers of course it will flop
Eternal Kick It just came out today. How is it a flop?
deztroyer76 tracking puts it at barely hitting $30 million for the weekend. That's a flop for an obscene budget franchise movie. They likely didn't even make back Tom Cruises salary.
Why did they even say they were going to go back to the horror roots? Was a flat out lie and you could tell from the trailers exactly what they were going for.
Cheap action
Cheap cgi
no horror elements at all.
They also said their focus was to make good standalone movies and not just big trailers for the next trailer... Lies
But they had the stock "woman scream" in the trailer! That counts for horror, right? Lol
crapvile "devils avocado" 😂
ThePainTrain King Kong Vs Godzilla works and this could have worked too if they set it up right
I'm not sure major studios understand what horror movies are anymore. I think they think this is what horror movies are.
"Can't we ever just stop? These movies don't need to happen." Nail on head....
In the 2017 film : THE MUMMY, Tom Cruise plays Nick Morton - - a character that is shallow, self-absorbed, self-seeking, unethical, and vain. In other words Tom Cruise plays himself ;-)
"If you are going to do it, make it good" - Great advice Mike..
I can’t stand his unmeasured take on things, honestly lol James keeps the balance
Si no vas a hacer las cosas bien mejor ni las hagas
The mummy impossible
That's a nice name I love it Rated R for Retarded
Nothing quite comes together in this crazy mix of action, jokes, ancient curses and the undead, and even Tom Cruise's star power can't glue the thing together.
Tom has no starpower. Second i saw him i lost all intrest in watching it
Victor Frankenstein was kinda neat! Different take and they didn't switch genre. That's probably one of the best modern "Universal Monster-films".
That one was technically made by 20th Century Fox, not Universal. But still, your point.
Radcliffe and McAvoy had such great chemistry.
I enjoyed the Wolfman Period piece movie that came out in like 2010? Was pretty good
@@AwesomeDudeFrankie was that the one with benecio deltoro and Anthony Hopkins? I enjoyed it.
I think we all knew from the trailers that this movie was going to be fucking terrible
Kurtzman's gonna fuck evrything up. He had his fingers in a lot recent "worst films ever". From Transformers 2, The amazing spiderman 2, Star trek 2(Into darkness), etc.
It just looked so bland! Why bother with something that looks like it'd fit in with as a DC movie? In fact, the mummy woman reminds me of the Enchantress from Suicide Squad.
I dunno, it definetely showed a lot of the signs of a bad movie, but I had to watch the trailer many times because I went to the movies so much these past few weeks and I always thought: this looks like it's gonna be shit, but if they play their cards right, it has potential. These days trailers are not representative of movies anymore.
sandiman21 DC movie? Dude DC's on a role right now because of Wonder Woman, so not even the Mummy fits in. This movie would fit with the other bad monster remakes (wolf man 2010, Dracula untold, etc.)
Homzilla Being on a roll requires making more than one pretty good movie after another, but if DC plays their cards right maybe they will be on a roll.
Mike and James: "Usually you can tell how a movie is gonna be by the trailer."
Me: Exactly
*Turns and glares at Ghostsbusters 2016*
Don't worry. I've yet to see it.
Stiffy John Poor b8 m8.
0/8
The usual opinion about hostbusters 2016 appears to be that it's passable, about 6/10 or so. Not bad at all, not good at all, just ok.
@@NeoSaturos123 Bill Murray liked it, so there's that. I had a good time. It was about as good as Ghostbusters 2, in my opinion.
"Let's take the premise of the movie bomb League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and make a blockbuster cinematic universe out of it!"
-Brilliant movie exec
LoEG wasn't bad though. Sean Connery was cool
Tom Cruise ran away so fast, the entire Dark Universe collapses.
in my opinion the shared universe is a good idea, but of course the movies have to be good
Without a good script and a competent director, there's not much that can be done.
Bossu Hotilor I honestly dont know what the point is or whate they are trying to achieve with a monster shared universe like what the hell they want to DO with them.
besides we already got goosebumps wich is already an entertaining film filled with classic monsters (from the books that is)
Yep. I was excited for a shared universe when Untold released. It has potential
i these days i had an idea of a "SNK cinematic universe", i think it's a good idea. (i am brazillian, i don't know very much about it).
No, it's not a bad idea, it's just not being done really well. Not sure opening with the Mummy was a smart move nor was writing it with the intent of it being a shared universe, it really should be more organic.
I really think it should've been told from the POV of a group of monster hunters and maybe start with a movie about them.
James' face on the thumbnail says it all.
Ryan Wilhite and Mike's hahaha
Assembly line movie making with no singular creative vision aimed at the lowest attention span and broadest audience. Fast Food Film.
This breaks my heart. I wanted this new cinematic U to work... sounds like it will not get another chance. #WellAlwaysHaveMonsterSquad
Imagine the Dark Universe had its own Monster Squad
I really wouldn't mind seeing James re-review the classic monster films alongside Mike with a more in depth approach like this.
Needs more Brandon Frasier. Or maybe not.
La-Z Rider No Fraser, no watch. This was the role our boy needed to help unfuck his shit, and it was so heinously swept out from under him by an overrated lunatic Scientologist.
Loruxz25 +1,000,000
La-Z Rider It needs more John Hannah and Rachel Weisz
Well guys, Fraser had a really bad back injury and he can't do these kind of action movies anymore, that's one of the reasons he isn't around, but yeah would love him to make a comeback, too bad his career got fucked up, loved him in Mummy!
He's dead on the inside, he now has the charisma of a dead fish. I am so sad for him in a non-sarcastic way. Watch his more recent interviews and you'll understand.
Mike "ITS TIME TO STOP!"
I'll have to agree with Mike here: Rehashing is not only poison for originality, but it destroys the legacy of the originals and obscures them even more to the average movie-goer.
MyScorpion42 If you want to remake a classic, at least make it worth watching.
Exactly, at least they have to tried something new in the remake and make it worth watching. The way they switch the antagonist role around in this Mummy movie is a welcome change in pace. But they have to ruin it with their incompetent mind.
That's ludicrous. If it really is that bad people just forget about the new one and keep watching the original.
Making a bad reinvention doesn't "destroy it's legacy". You tried, ya failed. Learn from the past and try again
James, Guillermo Del Toro is scheduled to direct a Frankenstein movie for Universal. Whenever it happens Doug Jones is going to be the monster. I think it'll be great. Del Toro has immense respect for the originals and we know he knows how to make a good movie.
Franky Ramone hopefully del toro will be busy beforehand filming at the mountains of madness so that a true master of horror can be seen on the big screen big budget
Franky Ramone some guy named Javier Bardem is already cast as the Frankenstein monster.
Andrew Anstrom damn that sucks
Andrew Anstrom you can kinda see Cthulhu if you watch the silent call of Cthulhu film from the HP Lovecraft historical society
GhostFreeman The universe was doomed as soon as they said action over horror. I'd rather the universe be scrapped entirely to maintain the original movie series magic. Do it right or don't do it at all.
I hope this bombs. Don't reward them for treating the audience like morons.
Didn't bomb, but it did disappoint.
When it's the end of 2019 and the bride of Frankenstein movie didn't come out
They cancelled the entire Dark Universe because of how badly this flopped.
Wait, James liked a movie about a woman? I thought after last summers review of Ghostbusters, everyone said he was sexist. I think everyone owes you an apology.
Nobody cares about them idiots anyway.
Brian That was a reactionary witch hunt by people who. weren't even fans.
It wasn't because it was an all female cast why he didn't wanna watch it, he just thought the new Ghostbusters just didn't look good and he didn't wanna give them his money. Simple as that.
Brian What review? He refused to watch it. That's why the negative reaction toward James was so ridiculous, as he never said anything bad about the reboot. He simply had no interest in seeing it.
James said it in a nice way. There is a reason to retell stories, it keeps the stories fresh for new generations. Now, sometimes it's done well, sometimes it's done poorly.
I knew this was going yo suck when they released the mummy's 2nd trailer. The mummy is supposed to be a horror! Not an action. Even the 1999 mummy got this right.
The Monster Squad and Van Helsing are fantastic and there's no reason we couldn't have more movies like that.
1999' s "The Mummy" was a great action/ horror remake.
I'll wait the Home-Video to see this one
The 1999 Branden Fraser mummy is a childhood gem for me! I love the classics but I saw those when I was an adult, I grew up with Fraser yelling at mummies 😀
"hhHHUUAAAAaaAAAAAUUGHH", Tom Cruise after negative reviews
Am I the ONLY one that watched the trailer, saw/heard Tom Cruise's terrible over the top scream when he is tossing about in the C-130, and immediately thought "nope"???
Nicholas Sainburg hahaha no I thought the same thing even burst out laughing when I saw the trailer in the theatre
Nicholas Sainburg still sad for the scream doesn't turned into a Meme
He sounded like someone clipped his nards
Nicholas Sainburg Nope. Soon as I heard him and Alex Kurtzman were involved I refused to see it in theaters.
Tom Cruise is a plight on movies. Almost every movie he is in turns to shit sooner than you can say Cruuuise. The guy is just incredibly irritating to me, he personifies the idea of an actor with a planet sized ego.
The problem is Money, it kills the soul. Of anything. Music, Movies, People.. Name any thing that is connected to large amounts of money that Doesnt turn sour. When you do your arts/work out of love and respect. You get good results. When you do it for money, you have sold your soul.
Kim Pettersson very well said. just had to appreciate your penchant for a poetic summary.
That's... very, very deep.
I half agree, I think money doesn't kill the soul, it just dulls it. It turns what could be incredible and awesome into something forgettable and mediocre.
The thing about the Mummy is while it's bombing in the US, it killing in China so odds are Universal will keep making these movies.
IDK man give me some money and I will tell you
Avatar was expensive and so was Jurassic Park, both didn't suck at all.
" The Mummy (2017) - Just terrible, the only saving grace being the realistic casting of an Algerian as the monster that terrorizes modern day London." GAHAHA
Luzur lol
I love when Mike and James disagree, they are so classy about it.
I thought this was called "The Mommy" and included MILF's. Big letdown.
wack
Kek.
monsters I'd like to fight (each other)
Van Helsing was a very underrated movie. If it had been released a few years later if would have done much better.
Nearly a perfect Universal Monsters Movie, I honestly wouldn't mind a re-tooled remake of Van Helsing at some point. It could have easily led to a whole cinematic universe.
I really like the set up for these reviews, it's like if Siskel and Ebert had good opinions.
I'd take the scorpion king over this....
Apostle Cat at least the Scorpion King is a fun guilty pleasure movie. This isn't and never will be that
NYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEE!!!!!
Mike is absolutly right. I'm so sick of all these reboots and remakes and sequels. Give me something new for fuck sake.
How about a faithful take on the Fey?
I can't totally hate reboots and remakes -- Sure you get a lot of trash, but Dredd? I'm glad Dredd exists.
Oh, is Tom Cruise the Wolfman?
Dredd is a remake that was needed, considering that the only cinematic representation before it was the campy, cheesy, cliché, Judge Dredd.
Saw the trailer. It was shit. So the movie will be shit. That's what I think
Horrible Gamers You're right, and Drive was just like Fast and Furious.
Michael What else should you judge it by?
Your Brother The.. film?
You can't say if a movie is good just by it's trailer, but you can definitely say when a movie is gonna be utter shit just by it's trailer, 100% of the times.
Dido Doesn't make any sense, but okay. Haha
it's sad that the Mummy movies with The Rock are better
James and Mike, have you all seen "House of the Wolfman?"
Mike: "Yadda yadda yadda"
James: (waiting for a valid criticism)
this video.
Pretty much yea :D
In theater I thought I was watching Michael Jackson "THRILLER" The mummies were break dancing.
From the sounds of things that is a huge insult to Thriller.
Robert Clement lmao
this mummy was extremely guilty of doing all the stereotypical female villain moves
Like what?
Yeah, that "Mirror, mirror on the wall" scene was atrocious.
their faces in the thumbnail tell em everything I need to know
The official "umm" count:
Mike: 12
James: 33
Not what I was expecting.
"None of these people are bad actors, just the script."
Cough cough Hayden Christensen cough cough.
Movies are made for money now, not for entertainment.
All movies are made for money. Old movie were made for money, too. It's only recently that movies have been accepted as an art form.
LMAO 14:05 "It kind of took things from An American Werewolf in London, did you notice that?" (Blank stare. Cut to different part of conversation. ) One has to wonder what was cut out...
Lol I just noticed that, why did they cut out?🤔🤔
monster squad is probably what they plan on building up to, like marvel and the avengers. I LOVE the idea but as Mike said, "if you're gonna do it, do it well." lol
I decided NOT to see this before seeing this video
4:55 Mike, you gonna finish your sentence? xD
"There's..."
Just stop coping Marvel's success. DC is the closest in my opinion... Wonder Woman was bad ass, Suicide Squad was crap but enjoyable and re-watchable, Batman V Superman wasnt great but had some of the most bad ass moments in a superhero film ever, and Man of Steel was my 2nd favorite Superman film to date... This movie did NOTHING for me.
Tim Sevigney agreed
I think Legendary's & Toho's MonsterVerse is doing well.
The one that might to marvel is definitely the Monsterverse
Let's just be clear: Universal already did this.
Granted, the Continuity is a bit iffy at times in the Dracula-Wolfman-Frankenstein Films, but they are all connected.
Honestly haven't cared for any of the Mummy films I've seen including the very original, so I'm already eh on this. I'm just waiting for another creature from the black lagoon.
Lost Utopia Films
You sir earned a sub lol
"make them look authentic"
Careful what you wish for, James. Hollywoods sense of authenticity boils down to pepper spraying it with shitload of cynicism. What you'd get wouldn't be a love letter to the classics, but a hour and a half long "This shit was lame and stupid and people who liked it are stupid and lame too".
I wonder what these guys think of Penny Dreadful. :P
I really like 2010's Wolfman. I wish they would of kept that tone.
it was ok.
The problem I had was it was way too dark in every scene...I had to turn up my brightness.
I also just kept seeing Hopkins as Hannibal.
Why the fuck is it so hard to make a decent movie these days? Nothing will beat the classic The Mummy or even the classics period.
I'll say it: modern movies are bullshit! Hollywood completely forgot how to make compelling entertainment.
Medieval Dead hollywood is owned by communist china
kool killer I actually just made a separate post about that. India and China have absolutely annihilated the movie industry.
A ton of movies are not screened in China (only 10 of them can be presented per year) and the movie industry in India is even bigger than Hollywood
Labyrinth
agrument: Captain Underpants :)
So... What happened to Bride of Frankenstein?
I hope they continue this Dark Universe. Just with better movies from now on. I know I'm not the only one who wants a very well done movie with all the Universal monsters together in one big blockbuster movie, so I seriously hope that Holywood get their shit together and make it happen with decently done movies.
Mission Imposible : The Mommy
this is one of those movies you know is going to be terrible as soon as you see the trailer.
February 14, 2019 has just passed. That Bride of Frankenstein movie sure was great!/s It's kinda funny watching reviews of movies like this way later, knowing the goals they had in mind not coming to fruition.
I know James is not a fan of point-and-click games, but whenever I hear him talk about the Universal monsters I keep thinking he should play Hollywood Monsters.
Maybe with a guide at hand to solve the moon logic puzzles, but he would get all the references, like when they say that the Mummy and Frankenstein's monster look alike, which is a reference to Boris Karloff playing both characters.
The only problem is that it apparently only came out in Spain and Italy (which is a shame, since it's one of my alltime favourite games in the genere), but I think you can play with English subtitles.
The problem is, they are making movies for masses...not for just a few critics or a few nostalgic nerds...MONEY IS THE POINT. PERIOD.
The Brenden Fraiser Mummy was awesome, it made big money and it was for the masses. This one is a mass piece of shit.
It is possible to make money while also making a good movie, you know. It has been known to happen. I've seen it.
Saeid Yazdani Global audience consideration really has watered things down as well. Forget witty dialogue or clever in jokes, gotta attract that Chinese market.
Well not anymore :D
That's why dumbass studios can't write for shit.
I agree with Mike but he could be more articulate.
As a castlvania/ghostbusters/monster loving kid... i was happy the monster universe was coming back. Sucks that they pissed it away. Luke Evans as Dracula was cool. Wanted to know what trapped that ancient vampire in the mountain...who he was... Judas? Old Egyptian... Damnnnn!!!!
I really like what James said about how the Universal monsters should be retold to every generation. Something about showing young people what was considered great at one point is heartwarming to me.
Although to be fair, those original great things never disappear, so why would you have to actually remake things? Maybe just letting new people take their part in doing it? Like, let newer actors have their chance at least lol. I dunno
It comes at night is my nick name.
Why is Ethan Hunt in this movie?!
MyCherryHurts it's Jack "Maverick" Reacher.
Raif Nation The scientologise?! Why's he digging up mummies?! curiouser and curiouser hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?!
The actor who played The Invisible Man in the original had an amazing voice for the role!! Even James admitted it in his review!
That guy had a great voice! As much as I love Johnny Deep, I don't think he'll out beat the original actor who was the Invisible Man.
I'm not even watching your film reviews anymore (I just ignore everything new & wait for true hype or history decide), but you're mastering the thumbnails-- needs moar 'the nerd' facial expressions
Is it bad that I like Dracula Untold?
Dracula Untold was a really good movie. With that Ending i wanted to see a sequel.
No. I didn't think it was terrible, but merely fair.
You're not alone, Stonewall3000, I also really liked the film. I liked how they redid his backstory, and turned him into a sympathetic character that you could root for; as opposed to just redoing the same old "He's evil" cliché.
Rip movies when they stared making everything a trilogy.
Nick R "b-b-but Lord of The Rings and Star Wars were successful!!"
So true. (I'm looking at you, The Hobbit!)
Why don't they release these films in October? Universal could dominate Halloween month if they made Horror shared universe but they wanted to be summer movies.
Here's how to make a good Universal Monsters movie today.
*Step 1:* Hire Guillermo del Toro.
*Step 2:* Give him full creative control over the script, filming and final cut.
*Step 3:* Make it a one off. Don't force him to shoehorn in references to "Set Up" the cinematic universe.
*Step 4:* When it's a success, repeat steps one through four again with another movie.
5:45 I totally agree with Mike on this.
James is looking awfully thin.
You mean healthy.
I love the thumbnail. James is like "what the fuck is this movie" and Mike is like "told ya".
The cinematic universe actually started with the Monster movies. It didn't start with The Avengers. Damn, you would think that these two would know that...
Remakes are destroying cinema!! Hollywood please stop...
The only good 'Universal Monsters' crossovers were the Abbot and Costello flicks😛
pathosis well no. Not just that. There was also House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula.
Is there a movie reboot, remake, or sequel that Mike can actually enjoy without saying "it's not as good as the original" or comparing it to the original?
John carpenters the thing, the fly?
I knew this movie would be bad when the villain was the most generic "she's sexy but also badass and evil and kicks your ass" female villain in the world