This was just awful! I like Tom Cruise, but they could have gotten a no-name actor and stuck him in this role and saved the money they paid Cruise to enhance the special effects. And the plot. And the screenplay. The only mildly entertaining portion was Russell Crowe as Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hide. It was awful too, but, Crowe makes me smile no matter what he's doing. I love this guy's mug. They could have used a cardboard cutout for Annabelle Wallis for all the spark she brought to her role as the "archeologist". I think it was a bad idea to make the mummy a woman. That may sound sexist, but it just felt wrong. The 1932 version of The Mummy, with Boris Karloff, was kind of boring, but the first 10 minutes of that movie still sends a chill down my spine. It was so incredibly creepy when Imhotep slowly opens his eyes when the guy in the room with him begins reading aloud from the sacred scroll. That tiny piece of screen time blew this current version out of the water! You don't need big explosions, face sucking deaths and camel spiders to make a scene scary. Just have the 2,000 year old mummy slowly come to life and walk away from his sarcophagus. It'd drive you mad to see that.
Review of The Mummy
