First off, I feel I have to admit I am a huge fan of The Mummy trilogy with Brendan Fraser. I grew up with those films and while the third entry (Tomb of the Dragon) with Jet Li is definitely the weakest in the trilogy, I would still take it over this. I even went back and watched the Fraser Mummy trilogy recently before I finally decided to watch this film, just to make sure I wasn't being biased due to nostalgia, and I still stand by this opinion.
From my understanding, this film wasn't meant to really be a remake/reboot of the 1999 film, but rather was meant to be a different mummy movie that was supposed to be part of Universal's attempt to create their "Dark Universe". The movie "Dracula: Untold" was actually supposed to kick off the Dark Universe, then came this Mummy movie, and then I believe they were going tomake a new Frankenstein film to be a part of the Dark Universe, along with others. But if you're going to name it The Mummy, it's basically impossible not to expect it to be compared to the 1999 film.
All that aside, judging this movie on its own, it just lacks so much. The effects are decent and it has the occasional (somewhat) exciting scenes, but overall it's boring and uninspired.
As the title says, not worth your time or money. Unless you're a huge Tom Cruise fan and just enjoy watching him in anything (for some reason lol) then I recommend finding a better movie to sink a couple hours into.
From my understanding, this film wasn't meant to really be a remake/reboot of the 1999 film, but rather was meant to be a different mummy movie that was supposed to be part of Universal's attempt to create their "Dark Universe". The movie "Dracula: Untold" was actually supposed to kick off the Dark Universe, then came this Mummy movie, and then I believe they were going tomake a new Frankenstein film to be a part of the Dark Universe, along with others. But if you're going to name it The Mummy, it's basically impossible not to expect it to be compared to the 1999 film.
All that aside, judging this movie on its own, it just lacks so much. The effects are decent and it has the occasional (somewhat) exciting scenes, but overall it's boring and uninspired.
As the title says, not worth your time or money. Unless you're a huge Tom Cruise fan and just enjoy watching him in anything (for some reason lol) then I recommend finding a better movie to sink a couple hours into.