Even though the world had nothing to really do with the terms of her imprisonment she’s still set on showing the world just what she thinks of it by destroying everything she sees. Eventually she gets back up to her old tricks of killing, gaining power, and generally making life miserable for anyone that gets in her way. And so what happens? You guessed it, they get to go down and investigate and in so doing they somehow release the most potent evil the world has ever seen.Īnd so of course the evil wakes up, summoning plagues left and right and keeping the main character alive since he’s the one she chose. And of course when an explosion goes off in the desert-based village they’re in it uncovers a hidden cavern that hasn’t been accessed for hundreds upon hundreds of years, if not longer. Well, at least it is in this film.Īnd then the years pass by in a blur and suddenly we’re in the modern day with a couple of guys with machine guns running from the bad guys while cracking wise with one another and just barely avoiding getting themselves killed. She gets caught eventually and is, you guessed it, cursed by her own people and locked away in a vault of liquid mercury that will keep her evil from being allowed into the world again, because mercury is the be-all end-all containment fluid for anything and everything evil. It’s always implied, which is bad enough.īut moving on.

Kids haven’t been off limits in films for a while now, though very few films will actually show that much happening to them. Yes, she killed the baby, gruesome I know but not altogether scary. I’m pretty sure that he, his wife, and yes, even the baby, got the gist of it when she killed them all. So what does a woman who’s about to be deposed as a baby do? Of course she goes and makes a pact with the god of death! Â There wasn’t anything such thing as child psychology back in the day so trying to work through her feelings involved more archaic and arcane methods than it did hugging her feelings out and trying to make her father understand how she felt. She’s bent on ruling Egypt, her father marries and his wife has a new baby, which disrupts her plans to rule one day. So the mummy is a woman now, not bad, not bad. Eventually you came out wondering if you’d just seen a two-hour long alternate version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

You went into the theater hoping to have your socks knocked off by a film that was supposed to be a revival of sorts, a hearkening back to the days when monster movies left people shaking when they left the theaters. But then again, so was The Mummy of 2017. Honest trailers are definitely thrill-killers sometimes.

The mummy movie trailer