If the makers of future installments take as much care with their movies as they did here, moviegoers will be in for a treat. Their latest expedition uncovers a tomb underneath a small, remote town. Annabelle Wallis fills in with her own dead-pan version of Professor of Antiquities, Jenny Halsey. Convinced it's the biggest find of all, he accidentally unleashes the 5,000-year-old princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) who chooses him as the new vessel of the death-god Set.
Now that her tomb has been released from the underground prison, she has come back to life to fulfill her legacy. Worst of all, Boutella, who gave a mesmerizing breakout performance in last year's Star Trek Beyond, makes nearly no impression as Ahmanet, who spends much of the movie held captive, even though she's meant to be the main antagonist. These include Russell Crowe revealing the true nature of his enigmatic character, Dr. Jekyll, and the organization that he leads. Did Stephen Sommers inadvertently direct a movie that will be retroactively set in the newly-formed Dark Universe?
- Are we really not sick of Tom Cruise yet? The balance there was just right.
Over the course of the movie's nearly two hour run time, it seemed as if nothing ever really happened.
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This is surprising...yet not. David Koepp is the writer. These guys know how to deliver a finished product, but you can tell the movie definitely suffers from having too many cooks in the kitchen. While some called Cruise "out of place" in the movie, others admitted that he is the one single secret weapon. Under his direction, the movie feels like it it's constantly searching for a tone, like a person trying on several types of swimsuits and leaving the store without making a purchase. Sofia Boutella continues to be an incredible movie presence and is a fantastic antagonist when she gets to do stuff, so it would have been nice to see her in a better-made movie. Cruise looks inordinately buff, but like everything else here, there's a rote, going-through-the-motions quality to his performance. Even if his character is out for themselves, like in Edge of Tomorrow or Jerry Maguire, there still needs to be something about him that makes the audience like him.
Cruise is in his overly familiar guise as the hotshot morality-challenged military asset in the Middle East.
Cruise must have woken my demon spirit, too.
Kurtzman, who is best known for his credits as a screenwriter ("Transformers", "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", "Star Trek", "Star Trek: Into Darkness") and producer ("Now You See Me", TV shows "Scorpion" and "Hawaii Five-0"), said he doesn't read reviews.
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