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In some point unknown, Ahmanet had made a deal with the evil god ], in exchange for her own soul. She had murdered her father as part of their deal, and was caught in charge of betrayal, murder and supernatural actions. As punishement for her crimes, she was mummied ,wrapped around with mummy paper ,and was buried alive ,and during this moment, she was horribly killed by the Scarabs who ate her alive.  In some point unknown, Ahmanet had made a deal with the evil god ], in exchange for her own soul. She had murdered her father as part of their deal, and was caught in charge of betrayal, murder and supernatural actions. As punishement for her crimes, she was mummied ,wrapped around with mummy paper ,and was buried alive ,and during this moment, she was horribly killed by the Scarabs who ate her alive. 


Millions of millions of years later ,in present day Egypt, the adventurer Nick Morton manages to find the tomb of Ahmanet together with a special military team of monster hunters. As they escaped away from groups of armed thieves, they finally found the tomb inside a shady cave full of sand. Nick and the team brought the tomb aboard their own airplane, and traveled out of Egypt. Centuries later ,in present day Egypt, the adventurer Nick Morton manages to find the tomb of Ahmanet together with a special military team of monster hunters. As they escaped away from groups of armed thieves, they finally found the tomb inside a shady cave full of sand. Nick and the team brought the tomb aboard their own airplane, and traveled out of Egypt.


However, a massively huge wave of crows assaulted the airplane, killing every single man in the aircraft, causing the transportation artificat to crash which caused to the airplane's complete destruction, killing even Nick. One day after the crash, Nick woke up and revealed that he is alive and did not died in the crash. He enters into a office room, where he meets ], the infamous scientist who dedicated his life to erase evil from the world ,invented a potion and drunk it, which resulted him in becoming the hideous and the murderous Edward Hyde. However, a massively huge wave of crows assaulted the airplane, killing every single man in the aircraft, causing the transportation artificat to crash which caused to the airplane's complete destruction, killing even Nick. One day after the crash, Nick woke up and revealed that he is alive and did not died in the crash. He enters into a office room, where he meets ], the infamous scientist who dedicated his life to erase evil from the world ,invented a potion and drunk it, which resulted him in becoming the hideous and the murderous Edward Hyde.
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===Critical response=== ===Critical response===
On ], the film has an approval rating of 30% based on 47 reviews, with an ] of 4.6/10.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mummy (2017)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_mummy_2017|website=]|accessdate=June 7, 2017}}</ref> On ] the film has a score 38 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mummy reviews |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-mummy-2017|work=]|accessdate=June 7, 2017}}</ref> On ], the film has an approval rating of 25% based on 26 reviews, with an ] of 4.7/10.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mummy (2017)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_mummy_2017|website=]|accessdate=June 7, 2017}}</ref> On ] the film has a score 38 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mummy reviews |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-mummy-2017|work=]|accessdate=June 7, 2017}}</ref>


Vince Mancini of '']'' gave the film a negative review, writing: "If you like incomprehensible collections of things that vaguely resemble other things you might’ve enjoyed in the past, ''The Mummy'' is the movie for you."<ref>{{cite web |last=Mancini|first=Vince|url=http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/the-mummy-2017-review/ |title=‘The Mummy’ Will Have You Feeling That Old ‘I’ve Just Seen A Hollywood Movie’ Feeling |website=Uproxx |date=June 7, 2017|accessdate=June 7, 2017}}</ref> ]'s David Ehrlich gave the film a D-, calling it the worst film of Cruise's career and criticizing its lack of originality, saying: "It’s one thing to excavate the iconography of old Hollywood, it’s another to exploit it. This isn’t filmmaking, it’s tomb-raiding."<ref>{{cite web|author=David Ehrlich |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/the-mummy-review-tom-cruise-sofia-boutella-russell-crowe-dark-universe-1201838756/2/ |title=Review: ‘The Mummy’ Is The Worst Tom Cruise Movie Ever |publisher=IndieWire |date=June 7, 2017 |accessdate=June 7, 2017}}</ref> Vince Mancini of '']'' gave the film a negative review, writing: "If you like incomprehensible collections of things that vaguely resemble other things you might’ve enjoyed in the past, ''The Mummy'' is the movie for you."<ref>{{cite web |last=Mancini|first=Vince|url=http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/the-mummy-2017-review/ |title=‘The Mummy’ Will Have You Feeling That Old ‘I’ve Just Seen A Hollywood Movie’ Feeling |website=Uproxx |date=June 7, 2017|accessdate=June 7, 2017}}</ref> ]'s David Ehrlich gave the film a D-, calling it the worst film of Cruise's career and criticizing its lack of originality, saying: "It’s one thing to excavate the iconography of old Hollywood, it’s another to exploit it. This isn’t filmmaking, it’s tomb-raiding."<ref>{{cite web|author=David Ehrlich |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/the-mummy-review-tom-cruise-sofia-boutella-russell-crowe-dark-universe-1201838756/2/ |title=Review: ‘The Mummy’ Is The Worst Tom Cruise Movie Ever |publisher=IndieWire |date=June 7, 2017 |accessdate=June 7, 2017}}</ref>

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2017 American film
The Mummy
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlex Kurtzman
Screenplay by
Story by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBen Seresin
Edited by
Music byBrian Tyler
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • May 22, 2017 (2017-05-22) (State Theatre)
  • June 9, 2017 (2017-06-09) (United States)
Running time107 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$125 million

The Mummy is a 2017 American film directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie, and Dylan Kussman, with a story by Kurtzman, Jon Spaihts, and Jenny Lumet. It is a reboot of The Mummy franchise and the first installment in the Dark Universe film series. The film stars Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Marwan Kenzari, and Russell Crowe.

The Mummy premiered at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia on May 22, 2017 and is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 9, 2017 in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D.

Plot

The film opens with a flashback, showing the backstory of Princess Ahmanet who was born thousands of years ago in Cairo, capital city of ancient Egypt. Over the years, she was beloved by the people of Egypt because of her father, a close and powerful ally to the Egyptian empire. One day, her father replaced the current Pharaoh who died, and she became his princess, thus giving her much more greater love among the people of Egypt.

In some point unknown, Ahmanet had made a deal with the evil god Seth, in exchange for her own soul. She had murdered her father as part of their deal, and was caught in charge of betrayal, murder and supernatural actions. As punishement for her crimes, she was mummied ,wrapped around with mummy paper ,and was buried alive ,and during this moment, she was horribly killed by the Scarabs who ate her alive. 

Centuries later ,in present day Egypt, the adventurer Nick Morton manages to find the tomb of Ahmanet together with a special military team of monster hunters. As they escaped away from groups of armed thieves, they finally found the tomb inside a shady cave full of sand. Nick and the team brought the tomb aboard their own airplane, and traveled out of Egypt.

However, a massively huge wave of crows assaulted the airplane, killing every single man in the aircraft, causing the transportation artificat to crash which caused to the airplane's complete destruction, killing even Nick. One day after the crash, Nick woke up and revealed that he is alive and did not died in the crash. He enters into a office room, where he meets Dr. Henry Jekyll, the infamous scientist who dedicated his life to erase evil from the world ,invented a potion and drunk it, which resulted him in becoming the hideous and the murderous Edward Hyde.

Jekyll ,who is the founder ,commander, director and supreme leader of the monster hunting organisation The Prodigium ,states before Nick that he was chosen by the Princess to become what appears to be the key which would help her to destroy humanity and restore Earth's command to her hands. Jekyll explains that this is the reason for which he did not died and survived the airplane crash. He adds in his things saying that her only goal is to restore Earth's command to her.

Afterwards, the undead Princess manages to use her vastly powerful supernatural powers to free herself and to escape from the hands of the Prodigium's soldiers, wreaking havoc ,death and destruction in the process. Dr. Jekyll who attempted to stop her from escaping, fails, and quickly transforms into Edward Hyde, his evil, murderous and hideous alternative personality. Hyde begins to fight Nick, who later defeats him and causes Jekyll to return to his normal state.

Revealing that the undead mummy had escaped and killed most of his men, Jekyll states that Nick is the only one who can stop her. Therefore, he joins forces with Jekyll's loyal assistant Jenny Halsey who previously assisted in the obtaining of the tomb at Egypt, and they sets out in a dangerous journey around the globe.

Nick and Jenny are witnessing to the dark and the fearsome powers of the mummy, who unleashes few undead creatures to kill the duo. Nick is killed and once again survives, but as one of the creatures is preparing to kill Nick again, Jenny uses a gun and kills the creature.

They are later obtaining an ambulance, and escaping from the Princess, who encounters them in a forest. After a brief fight, the duo escape, but they soon fall into the sea. At the sea, they attempt to reveal how to defeat Ahnamet, who enters into their hideout, and attacks Jenny as well as attempting to kill her at the water by drowning, but Nick overpowers her and her creatures, and saves Jenny, who later confess that she is in love with him.

Later ,the duo are arriving to London, capital city of Britain, there, they are once again meeting with Dr. Jekyll, who tells them the story of Ahnamet. Afterwards, Ahnamet arrives to the city, and uses her powers to shut down the electricity, and to create a terrifyingly huge sandstorm with the shape of her own face. The sandstorm quickly destroys major part of the city, killing thousands in the process.

Nick and Jenny are escaping while Dr. Jekyll disappears. Then, the duo manages to defeat her by using an RPG, who destroys the sandstorm.

After the incidents at London, Jekyll express his wrath towards the duo, and states that they mustn't allow the undead princess to hurt people lives or destroy the world. Nick ,in response also confronts him.

Then, the mummy appears once again, taking the lives of several soldiers of the organisation, which leading to a lengthy, harsh and destructive battle. During the battle, Jekyll sacrifices himself, and manages to wipe out most of Ahnamet's forces. Then, the soldiers are still at battle with the army of Ahnamet, who enters into a lengthy and violent fight with Nick.

In the end of the battle, Nick stabs her with a knife, and chains her with metallic chains. Using the chains, he ripps off her body, eventually destroying her and thus, ending the threat of the mummy forever.

In the aftermath, Nick lives a quiet and happy life with Jenny, who becomes the leader of the Prodigium while Nick becomes its co-leader.

Cast

Production

Universal Pictures first announced plans for a modern day reboot of The Mummy franchise in 2012. The project went through multiple directors with first Len Wiseman leaving the project in 2013, and then a second director, Andrés Muschietti, leaving in 2014.

Tom Cruise began talks about playing the lead in November 2015, with Sofia Boutella beginning talks that December. Kurtzman cast Boutella after seeing and being impressed by her largely mute performance in Kingsman: The Secret Service. Kurtzman also noted that "if you look at her eyes, and this is what I got from watching Kingsman, there's a whole performance going on here. And in not saying anything but conveying that much to me, I thought oh my god, no matter how much prosthetics we put on her, no matter how much CG we put on her face, if I see this, she's going to convey something very emotional to me." Other casting news was announced between March and May with Russell Crowe joining during the latter month.

Filming

Principal photography on the film began on April 3, 2016, in Oxford, United Kingdom. It was also filmed in Surrey. Filming on the movie wrapped on July 17, 2016, in London. Production then moved to Namibia for two weeks with principal photography on the film being completed on August 13, 2016.

Release

Initially scheduled for a 2016 release, the film will instead be released in the United States and Canada on June 9, 2017 with international roll out beginning as early as June 9. The film will be screened in various formats such as in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D.

On December 20, 2016, IMAX released a trailer with the wrong audio track attached, which unintentionally prompted the creation of memes and video montages featuring the mistakenly included audio track, which was missing most of the sound effects and instead featured Tom Cruise's grunts and screams. IMAX reacted by taking down the trailer and issuing DMCA takedown notices in an attempt to stop it from spreading.

Following the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing on May 22, Universal cancelled the film's U.K. premiere which had been scheduled to take place in London on June 1.

Reception

Box office

In North America, the film is projected to gross $35–40 million from about 4,000 theaters in its opening weekend.

Outside North America the film is set to open in 63 overseas territories, with China, the UK, Mexico, Germany, Australia, Brazil, and Russia receiving the film the same day as in the United States. It opened on June 6, 2017 in South Korea and grossed $6.6 million on its first day, the biggest-ever debut for both Tom Cruise and Universal in the country.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 25% based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. On Metacritic the film has a score 38 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Vince Mancini of Uproxx gave the film a negative review, writing: "If you like incomprehensible collections of things that vaguely resemble other things you might’ve enjoyed in the past, The Mummy is the movie for you." IndieWire's David Ehrlich gave the film a D-, calling it the worst film of Cruise's career and criticizing its lack of originality, saying: "It’s one thing to excavate the iconography of old Hollywood, it’s another to exploit it. This isn’t filmmaking, it’s tomb-raiding."

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