 run you can't escape she's got plans for you so Universal Pictures had the grand idea to have a monsters universe called Dark Universe and this is the first movie the mummy starring Tom Cruise my name is Brennan Keith Avery and this is just my opinion so actually Universal Pictures tried to launch this a few years ago with their Dracula untold movie starring Luke Evans they came out in 2014 not too many people saw that film nor liked it so they just a scrap decided to scrap that and start over this year with the mummy starring Tom Cruise and Tom Cruise yes he is the main star in this movie when I first heard he was attached of course I was excited I pretty much love everything Tom Cruise has to do top gun mission impossible anything else he's done the last samurai I am a fan of his his movie life not much his personal life now this film is directed by Alex Kurtzman if you know that name he is known for a lot of the films that he the produced or wrote over the past few years he's really not known as a prominent director he has only directed one film before this but prior to that it was a few TV shows but this is actually I mean his first real feature was like a comedic comedic drama I forgot the name but this is actually his real semi big blockbuster he's been part of Transformers that writing department with Robert Orkey or or see also Star Trek and I forgot the other picture Transformers Star Trek and also the amazing Spider-Man and the amazing Spider-Man 2 so this is his first real feature and when it comes to movies like this with the mummy where it has to do with spells and curses and magic and myths and legends and things like that I want a great story to start things off to set the tone for the entire film and also just to set the tone or to set the rules of the universe that you're going to be creating and I don't mean the whole dark universe I just mean the universe in general for the film that you're trying to make and put on screen you know we have to know what's what and how this started and how this ends up here and that needs to make sense throughout the film and still tie together at the end of it and what I do like about the mummy so far at the beginning of this film is just the way it started it just took its time going back into the past hundreds and thousands and years ago just to let you know what was going on back in the day early in London and also different parts of Africa Egypt especially now like I said Tom Cruise is the star of this film but his character was a little bit arrogant and stupid especially in the beginning I did not like that about his character but that's nothing that cared on throughout the film now one of the scenes I really loved in this movie they did very well is they showed it a lot in the trailer once they get the tomb of the mummy and they have it in the cargo plane and they're trying to fly back to civilization there is a crash and the plane is tumbling down and people are flying out the plane and Tom Cruise he crashes and he wakes up that whole plane sequence was amazing I mean just the way they were showing them inside of the plane flying through the air tumbling all over each other in one constant shot without it breaking for any extra takes I thought that was splendid well done I was sitting there watching like man you know how are they doing this this is you know really creative it was a long thorough scene it wasn't real quick and you really just got to see how it looks inside of a plane when it's thousands of feet in the air nose diving to the ground and actually like what it looks like on the inside of a plane they didn't even have to do that they didn't have to put that much detail in it they could have just shown a few shots here and there and then just made sure assumed the plane crashed but they spent a lot of time and money and effort for this plane sequence and I just want to give it praise because it was one of the highlights of the film for me another great thing I liked about this movie is just the story telling and the exposition that they were giving you about the mummy and the lore and everything that happened back in the day I started out this review talking about how the film started off but they didn't just then leave it there with the story throughout the film that kept going back to that filling in different spots and different pieces to make a whole puzzle and it just really came to fruition not just at the end of the film but throughout even in the middle you know you're learning more and more and more about the mummy the technique why this character did this why this character did that it's like every 20 minutes you're getting like new nuggets of information that just gets you more excited about the film for the ultimate payoff the ultimate showdown but that's where my complaints with the film starts to begin another thing is the mummy I want a worthy threat someone that is if I touch them or look at them the wrong way they're going to kill me or i'm going to be possessed and do all these crazy things and as far as to feel but tell us character emanates I believe there was her mummy's name she was fine she was powerful she was also a very seductive with all of her just evil you know wicked ways but she's not the only mummy in this movie there are other mummies in this movie and I hated them I love the design of them looking all old and decrepit and decomposed with bandages hanging off in the way they're moving around all the mannerisms things like that that was nice but they still pose no threat when they came to the action as far as they are concerned it was just a bit goof-faced they might as well just do a subtitle on the screen they said now it's time for scooby doing friends and cut on the cue music or whatever because that's exactly what it felt like when they're going around attacking people and trying to kill people and actually when they were actually I don't want to spoil anything but when they were attacking other people that was cool but when they were engaged with Tom Cruise and the other lead actress it just was too funny it was just too many jokes and it just kind of ruined it I mean like this is supposed to be a serious moment where people are supposedly supposed to die or get hurt but the way they're going about the action is just really goofy and I'm just kind of sitting there just like okay take this seriously I mean these are mummies though that have come back to life and another thing about the movie that is really frustrating is it is a lot of jokes this movie could have easily been like a mystery horror thriller but instead they made it a mystery comedy drama in a way with sprinkles of comedy here and they just could have had sprinkles of horror here they just I mean and I'm not I don't want to lie to you or over exaggerate some of the jokes were funny and they did land but some of them did not especially I remember one part towards the beginning of the movie one is taking the family's taking this up seriously and you're gonna get a lot of great exposition then it cuts away to another character that's let's just call him a ghost and he's just making all these jokes and then they try to switch back into the great dialogue and then switch back over to this guy that's making these you know this weird body movements it's just like you know it's just a little bit unbalanced I'm not going to say that none of the joke I mean I did laugh at some of the jokes and people in the theater were laughing at some of the jokes that I was not laughing at but as far as a whole I would just have to split the comedy and have with 50-50 some of the jokes were funny some of the jokes were not there's also some Easter eggs here and there since this is a dark universe they do tease you with what's to come and what other monsters they have in store for you to entertain you I was very shocked when they did reveal that Easter egg as soon as they do you're gonna know who this person is right away I didn't see it coming it's not like some Darth Vader reveal where he's like oh my god you know oh you know it's nothing like that but you know I was like oh okay I know that character and I can't wait to see them do more and they tease you a little bit then later on they give you a lot more I'm not going to spoil it for you but you know it does it did look promising it makes me excited something else that makes me excited is just what's to come because they're going to have a Frankenstein movie a bride of Frankenstein Dracula the invisible man hunchback of Notre Dame creature of the black lagoon some of those people are just titles I just name I'm not too familiar with but I am excited I mean the same thing that they're doing with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the DC EU they're also doing with monsters and I mean hey why not you know that's what people want to see that's what I want to see it looks good it looks promising you know bringing on let's go but one of the concern I had by going into this movie I always wanted to know like okay when they're mummifying people why don't they just destroy the body and burn it and chop it up and you know mail one part to Alaska one part to Asia one part to South America I'm exaggerating a little bit but why do they preserve the body you know it kind of made sense in this movie they didn't explain it you know as best as I thought they could but at least they did address it and it made sense overall guys I did enjoy the film it was fun but at the same time it could have been a lot better and the biggest thing that they committed were times where they were trying to be supposed to be serious in the action it was ruined with too many jokes and that just kind of diluted the overall threat of the film there wasn't too many times where I felt any of the characters were an actual in any danger and actually felt that everyone was going to be okay and you know if I'm right or wrong you're just going to have to see for yourself if I had to rate this film out of a one out of ten I would give it a seven out of ten yes a seven out of ten but guys that's just my opinion have you seen the mummy do you want to see it how about turns you on how about turns you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing hey guys I really need your help there's a little movie coming out next year called Black Panther it comes out February of 2018 and I really want to go I love comic books I love Marvel I love Black Panther I'm Black and also the movie comes out in Black History Month so that would just be a dream come true for me is it a long shot you know that I'll make it you know yes it is but I'm going for it so help me out and get there by sharing this video 1,000 times and if you like this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you didn't like this video that's fine just leave me a 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