The Mummy
Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 9, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 44 Critics
Positive:
5
Mixed:
21
Negative:
18
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The Film StageDan MeccaJun 7, 2017
While it does take on the franchise burden in hefty doses, the film remains a fun, and funny, B-movie throughout. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 7, 2017
While The Mummy isn't the big bang preferred to start the Dark Universe of classic monsters, it's a serviceable popcorn flick dangling hints of promising things to come. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittJun 7, 2017
The Mummy is a tomb full of action-packed guilty pleasure that owns its horror, humor and rampant silliness equally. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 7, 2017
I’m not sure that this aimless, lukewarm take on The Mummy is how the studio dreamed that its Dark Universe would begin. But it’s just good enough to keep you curious about what comes next. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 7, 2017
Action-packed and patently ridiculous, it’s all in good fun. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRebecca HawkesJun 8, 2017
It’s all patently ridiculous - and surprisingly watchable. Read full review
60
Total FilmJamie GrahamJun 7, 2017
While there’s little here to jangle the nerves, The Mummy does wrap up enough adventure, action and quips to make it, if not a scream, a worthwhile Friday night out. Read full review
60
EmpireDan JolinJun 7, 2017
An odd but frothily entertaining genre cocktail, which coasts on the charisma of its two biggest names and keeps things just fun enough to forgive its considerable lapses in narrative. Read full review
57
The VergeTasha RobinsonJun 7, 2017
Given that The Mummy only barely works as a movie on its own account, the question becomes whether it works as a franchise-starter. And the answer is that while its franchise elements are foregrounded, they still aren’t terribly compelling. Read full review
55
IGNDaniel KrupaJun 7, 2017
There are moments where it reaches out for horror and produces something interesting and distinct from Hollywood’s other blockbusters, but those moments are buried beneath unremarkable and, by the end, tedious action sequences. Read full review
52
Paste MagazineTim GriersonJun 7, 2017
As a commentary on the modern blockbuster, the movie’s fascinating. But as an actual movie, it’s fairly disheartening. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJun 8, 2017
The Mummy does have elements that are effective, especially Sofia Boutella in the title role, but with all the hurly-burly on screen the virtues get lost in the shuffle. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJun 8, 2017
The Mummy starts off light and very quickly goes dark — fading rapidly, along with our hopes that this latest monster mash might possibly be any good. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 7, 2017
Because the movie’s carrying a heavy load of corporate expectations, it gets pulled in different directions by competing agendas before eventually collapsing into incoherence. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jun 7, 2017
The Mummy is crippled by a failure of imagination. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 7, 2017
The Mummy is the rare Cruise film that doesn’t quite give audiences their money’s worth. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJake ColeJun 7, 2017
Too much is at stake throughout, leading to formulaic plot filler and exposition that snuff out the spark of the early scenes. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 7, 2017
The Mummy is a literal-minded, bumptious monster mash of a movie. It keeps throwing things at you, and the more you learn about the ersatz intricacy of its “universe,” the less compelling it becomes. Read full review
42
Consequence of SoundClint WorthingtonJun 7, 2017
Unfortunately, The Mummy’s true curse is that it’s doomed to sacrifice its moments of fun, breezy spectacle for overwrought world-building. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 7, 2017
Ultimately, and perhaps most disappointingly, The Mummy winds up being not so much its own movie as what, by the end, feels like the first episode of a show that's already been renewed for several seasons. Because, in some respects, that's what it is. Read full review
40
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJun 7, 2017
The nonsensical story would matter less if The Mummy would get out of Cruise’s way and let him do what he does best. Instead, it buries him beneath punishing dialogue scenes and surrounds him with unconvincing and unoriginal special effects. Read full review
40
Screen InternationalFionnuala HalliganJun 7, 2017
Everything about The Mummy strains solely towards setting up a franchise in a world which only makes sense to its writers. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJun 7, 2017
Weirdly out of place here, Cruise brings little daring and less charm to the film, though to be fair to the actor, his character's a stiff. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 7, 2017
The core of The Mummy is built around a mostly fun, fast-moving vibe, while its malformed midsection seeks to undermine anything good it has accomplished. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 7, 2017
It’s a ragbag of action scenes which needed to be bandaged more tightly. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Jun 7, 2017
Sure it’s got big, blurry action scenes, a plane crash, and an army of dusty, mindless zombies. But I think some of them may have been the screenwriters, because the movie’s practically lifeless. Read full review
38
ObserverThelma AdamsJun 13, 2017
You only have to watch the trailer to know that Producer-Director Alex Kurtzman’s reboot of Brendan Fraser’s once-charming mummy movies is full of embalming fluid. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorJun 8, 2017
And the living are pretty lifeless themselves. As led by the often wooden Tom Cruise playing the U.S. soldier who inadvertently wakes the dead, and directed by an indecisive Alex Kurtzman, the cast is offered some passable action sequences but struggles with weak dialogue and uneven comedy. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 8, 2017
Narratively incoherent and full of cheese and camp, this movie makes it clear that the mummy should have remained dead and buried. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJun 8, 2017
It’s amazingly relentless in its naked borrowing from other, better horror and sci-fi movies that I was able to keep occupied making a checklist of the movies referenced. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerryJun 8, 2017
The big thrills and few laughs are no match for the cumbersome, convoluted story, not to mention the nonexistent chemistry between Cruise and Wallis. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJun 7, 2017
It’s big, it’s slick, it’s very, very Hollywood, but it’s just not that good a film. It’s not even as much fun – and monster movies, as opposed to horror movies, should be fun – as the 1999 Brendan Fraser vehicle of the same name. Read full review
30
Village VoiceBilge EbiriJun 7, 2017
The Mummy turns out to be a drab, nonsensical affair that squanders its potential for humor, atmosphere and sweep. Read full review
30
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJun 7, 2017
This isn’t a new breed of terror, just another neutered reboot churning all the same mainstream gears. Read full review
30
TheWrapRobert AbeleJun 7, 2017
This “Mummy” is rags that produce no riches. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 7, 2017
It's a monster fail. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 7, 2017
The Mummy is so wall-to-wall awful, so cheesy, so ridiculous, so convoluted, so uninvolving and so, so stupid. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 7, 2017
The mayhem in The Mummy feels desperate, mistimed, grueling in the wrong way (the film's violence is infinitely less appropriate for preteens than that of "Wonder Woman"). Read full review
20
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 8, 2017
The “Mummy” reboot from 1999, directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, was kind of fun. Monster movies frequently are. This one, directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Tom Cruise, is an unholy mess. Read full review
16
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJun 7, 2017
The Mummy is a dated, empirically dismal, laughable excuse to kick off a franchise, and it should have remained entombed. Read full review
16
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 7, 2017
It’s not that it’s bad, it’s that it never could have been good. It’s an irredeemable disaster from start to finish, an adventure that entertains only via glimpses of the adventure it should have been. Read full review
10
SlateSam AdamsJun 8, 2017
Cruise seems weariest of all, flogging outdated merchandise he can’t even pretend to believe in. It’s not Cruise that feels ancient; it’s The Mummy. Read full review
0
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 9, 2017
The Mummy is not your usual lousy movie. It has been made with skill and hits its marks. But those marks are so low and so brazenly mercenary that it doesn’t feel like much of an achievement. It’s not involving. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 8, 2017
A movie that goes beyond defying comprehension to being truly incomprehensible. Read full review
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