New Mummy Movie was Disappointing

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The Mummy is my favorite movie of all time. The Mummy Returns is my second favorite movie ever. And one thing I've learned is that The Real Mummy's curse is the fact that they just can't seem to make any other good Mummy movies. Doom of the Dragon Emperor was weak, but not terrible. Tom Cruz The Mummy was terrible. And now Lee Cronin's The Mummy is just eh. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the Mummy franchise at all. There's not even a single tiddly wink of an Easter egg. Not that I need to glid out at the screen going, "Oh, I get that reference." or anything. I just want to make it known that this is completely separate from any Mummy movies. This is a totally standalone film. Uh, and it bears no resemblance to anything in the Mummy franchise. What it does bear resemblance to, though, is Evil Dead Rise. I would even say that this is Evil Dead Rise with a new skin.

[00:01:00]Lee Cronin made Evil Dead Rise. I really like that movie. This steals its flow bar for bar, beat for beat. And a lot of people are praising that. Like, oh, this was very Evil Dead Risees. For me, I like Evil Dead Rise. I don't want to just see it done again with a new coat of paint. And I'm not just being harsh and exaggeratory. There are identical scenes in here that were present in Evil Dead Rise. For instance, I don't want to get too deep into spoilers off rip. So, here's like a little spoiler warning.

[00:01:30]When they're going over the mummy's origin and like what's going on here, they even play a tape that I'm pretty confident is even the same voice actor they used in Evil Dead Rise when they play the recording about the book and what all of that means. It's the exact same lore dump moment basically one to one. And there's multiple scenes just like that, including the same exact scares that were in Evil Dead Rise. Even identical gross out yucky moments. Oh, whoa. The like pretty much exactly the same here as it was in Evil Dead Rise. So, I don't think this movie is bad, but it really is a been there, done that because we literally saw Lee Cronin go there and do it a couple years back with Evil Dead Rise. It like this feels like a cash grab. It felt like he just wanted to go into, you know, his bag of comfort and deliver something very standard and generic. So, it's just a little disappointing. Now, I want to get into some bigger spoilers. So, here's your larger spoiler warning. So, the entire film revolves around a family and the daughter of this family gets kidnapped by a creepy woman who's using some kind of a spell. And then fast forward 8 years, they couldn't find her. But then a sarcophagus turns up after a plane crash and in that sarcophagus is their daughter. Except something's very wrong with her daughter. She is really out of it. And a lot of very creepy, scary things start to happen when they bring her home. Spoiler alert, she's possessed by the spirit of a demon basically. And in order to keep the demon from going hog wild on the world, they had to mummify it. And they needed a new host.

[00:03:27]And that's what their daughter was. But all hell breaks loose when that plane crash happens and she gets uh freed from the the the tomb. There's also another character that's introduced as kind of like a side quest who is a detective that really wants to help and she's never been able to actually find anyone alive. Katie is the first person that they found alive and it means a lot to her. But something is clearly gone cattywampus. And so the family, well, the husband Charlie is communicating with her and letting her know something's wrong. And we need to figure out like what happened to her, like what what did she go through? We have to know, you know, solve the mystery. So then the side plot happens where she's solving the mystery of that mummy, that demon, and then it leads to um finding this group that imprisons this demon in human vessels and has been doing so 82 times now. It's not really like a bad story, per se, but it's a very standard one that isn't the most unique or anything like that.

[00:04:43]And it's unfortunately riddled with the biggest horror movie trope of just characters being dumb.

[00:04:50]Charlie is quick to recognize shit's all arai, like this is not right.

[00:04:55]Something's going on. And he's trying to figure out the mystery. And he even suggests like, "Hey, we need to maybe get her somewhere where she can get specialized treatment after she headbutts the grandmother and starts peeling off her own skin and, you know, beating up the whole family and that kind of thing." But the mom is like, "No, I'm not doing that. We need to actually protect her this time around since we failed last time." Which I can understand that. I definitely do get that. I don't think that's bad writing or anything. I think that's totally fine. But when the bad decisions start happening is once the demon starts to free itself. slightly. It literally starts possessing the other members of the family, the kids. So, like the other daughter and the brother.

[00:05:36]She possesses them and there's even a funeral where the they live at their grandmother's house.

[00:05:44]The demon kills the grandmother, throws her out of the window. Coyotes then eat her body. This all happens in front of Charlie and the son, and the other daughter is already possessed. So, she is laughing watching her grandmother get eaten to death by coyotes in gory, brutal fashion. And then it fast forwards to them having a funeral in the same house with Katie and everyone still there. The daughter still possessed. And that's, get this, things go wrong. Then Katie uh goes to the corpse of the grandmother, bites it. The guests are throwing up and vomiting. The other daughter is pulling her teeth out, bloody, bruised, and biting. someone else ripping his ear off and then it fast forwards again and they're still in that house. Like they still just don't leave and they don't do anything to solve it. They just sit there and wait.

[00:06:32]What the Like, man, that was weird. That's not That's not how those are supposed to go. That was odd. That was odd. All right, let's calm down.

[00:06:39]Let's Let's clean everything up here.

[00:06:41]And they just leave like the coffin turned over on the grandmother and they stay there and just do nothing. There's just so many bad decisions is the point I'm making with that. But anyway, like I said, it's very similar to Evil Dead Rise down to what the demon can do with possessing the other kids. So, the other kids start, you know, ripping their teeth out, attacking the parents with a baseball bat, and then the grandmother gets possessed like her body dancing around like a puppet. It is all very evil. Dead Rise and it has my least favorite like nails on a chalkboard cringe horror possession where the demon starts talking but like it's a really like I'm talking middle schooler on Xbox Live type of talking. So like the daughter's possessed and at school she calls the teacher a bad word and then she's just always like you doing that while possessed and then the demon's doing like deep voice stuff. You're a A And then like when the grandmother is possessed by the demon, then it's like, "Oh, you want to me? Well, come me."

[00:07:52]It's just I hate it. It's so I That is That cliche is so cringe. I can't believe it still gets used unironically.

[00:08:00]Oh, and then it does another massive cliche where it shows how powerful the demon is actually force blasting the grandmother out of the window and summoning coyotes to eat her. And then when it's the final showdown, all the demon can do is very slowly crawl. And this is after the demon has fully freed itself from its bindings. It's fully unleashed and the best it can do is just crawl and talk You're a You're not getting your daughter back.

[00:08:28]Haha.

[00:08:30]And then when it actually like gets in position to attack, all it can do is slap. Like actually slap box like a cat swatting. But it's not even drawing blood or anything. So like the the husband, the father Charlie is like gripping as the investigator who's learned about like the curse and everything and learned the words that they use to bind. Somehow she memorized all of the words. Then she starts reciting the words as the daughter's being held and just slapping instead of using any of any of the powers. The demon just sits there slapping going no and then they bind the the the spirit to Charlie and then I actually do like this ending. I like what they did at the very end when you think it's over and it's like a somewhat happy ending but bittersweet because they do still have the demon bound to their father. Well, they then end up binding that demon to the woman who started all of this by kidnapping Katie. They go to her and put the demon onto her in order to free Charlie from it. So, the family's all back to back together and the lady who inflicted this curse upon them is now the one that has to bear it. I actually liked the ending. I thought that was I I didn't expect that. I actually thought that was kind of clever. But overall, like I said, I don't think the movie's bad. It's definitely not boring. That's the best compliment I can give it. I wasn't bored. it is constantly trying to unnerve you with gross and gory imagery and there's always something happening with like a jump scare or something going on. So like it's entertaining.

[00:10:00]Like I don't regret going to see it. I had higher expectations though. Like I would hope for like an evolution of like you know crafting it further as opposed to just being content doing like the same thing again that he did with Evil Dead Rise. But I don't think this was like a terrible movie or anything like that. though. If you have seen Evil Dead Rise, you've seen like 50% of this movie already because like I said, it recycles a lot from that one in imagery, in scenes, even in story moments as well.

[00:10:33]Kind of. It uses some of the same It's just I don't know. I I would have expected more here. So, I'm disappointed with it. I I think a lot of people are probably going to be satisfied because it is just constantly gory and constantly something trying to disturb you. And maybe that's maybe that's all it needs to do in order to be successful. I don't know. I just would have liked to see something more than that. Anyway, that's really about it.

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