{My following 10 movie reviews, or so, will be shorter than usual, since I'm on vacation and sometimes overseas.}
The newest Mummy movie successfully continues the horror tradition since 1932. This female mummy is seductive, Tom Cruise is well Tom Cruise (Sgt. Nick Morton), and the plot is suspensefully scary. If you're going retro, make it work...This time, Universal Pictures did so. A Mummy movie should not have any humorous strains, as the Brendan Fraser trilogy--which I still refuse to watch. It's in the horror genre. I love Fraser, but he makes me laugh just looking at him--a great gift. Universal hired top brass to revive their franchise. It went international budget blockbuster! Tom Cruise as the protagonist cannot fail. Sofia Boutella, as Princess Ahmanet, applies an exotic cocktail of dangerous attraction. She is almost as desirable as Anck-Su-Namun (Venezuelan supermodel Patricia Velasquez) from The Mummy (1999). Sofia comes back to life, aiming at your heart. Russell Crowe plays a frightful monster first.
My teenage audience was scared enough. This was a similar starting plot with Ahmanet killing her Pharaoh and awaiting her lover in the afterlife, but it was quite a different ending. I place it on the Winning 35 yd Line, since I side with the masses, and I'm still warming up to mummies.
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