La momia

Cuando una persona busca una película para relajarse y se le ofrece una con dos actores de su lista de favoritos, ¿por qué no darle una oportunidad? No sabía que iba a llevarme tal decepción. Tom y Russell siempre son geniales, pero también han tenido algunos tropiezos y han tenido pequeños fallos en sus actuaciones inolvidables que les valieron un Oscar. El principal problema de La Momia radica en el guión, es desesperadamente poco original, aburrido, no aporta absolutamente nada nuevo en comparación con su predecesora, que tiene casi veinte años. El público masculino probablemente prefiera ver a Sofía antes que a Arnold, pero ni siquiera su personaje está bien desarrollado y no ofrece ninguna escena interesante. Y personalmente, no me gusta en absoluto la conexión con Jekyll y Hyde, aunque Russell parece hecho a medida para ese tipo de personaje. (29.08.2017)

Hace mucho tiempo que no teníamos una chapuza de clase A tan agridulce. A partir de la «conversación con el espejo» en el baño de damas, todo se va al carajo. Una película de terror aventurera y del presente, con Cruise haciendo bromas, simplemente no pudo salir bien. Después de años extremadamente exitosos, Universal con confianza en sí mismo optó por guionistas de éxitos de taquilla y cometió un gran error. No se puede crear una nueva vaca lechera sin ideas basadas en un gran entusiasmo. ¿El peor papel de Russell Crowe? (18.06.2017)

Actually, it's good. The Mummy has its flaws, but Tom Cruise's charisma, the fast pace and the effort to introduce a new world for two hours easily entertains. The opening is reminiscent of Indy or the “Uncharted” games, the horror interludes work surprisingly well, and at times The Mummy straddles the line between PG-13 and R-rated. You probably won't be downright scared, but saying it’s horror adventure is not an exaggeration. There's more or less always something going on, and once they stop trying for funny interludes, it really paces just as you'd expect and hope after the trailers. In the end, it's a bit of a bummer that while The Mummy is a proper adventure flick, it unfortunately doesn't offer any scenes that you'll be excitedly describing to your friends and sending them to the cinema. As the start of a potentially interesting cinematic universe, however, it works without the slightest problem, and I'll happily be there next time. (11.06.2017)

Totally unworthy of Tom Cruise's star power. Well, yeah, there's a shortage of good original writers in A-list Hollywood productions, or there's no interest in them, so they recycle and reboot to the point of madness to create new film universes. Marvel has theirs, DC Comics has theirs, and starting with this film, Universal has theirs, with the starkly original Dark Universe title that seeks to revive the iconic monsters of the 1930s and 40s horror franchises. But the first runner they sent was a lazy bum who would have lost a 100-meter race to a turtle. This is a fairly routine, formulaic, almost B-movie 100 minutes. Well, let's say that the first 40 minutes or so follow in the footsteps of a mediocre adventure flick with a protagonist and a cute female scientist by his side, with some nice location changes and Cruise talking for his life, culminating in an excellent airplane scene in weightlessness. But with the arrival of Dr. Jekyll (and Mr. Hyde – for the less astute), the film becomes regular crap, throwing in one B-movie cliché after another, with the set never leaving the doctor's office and the dull backdrop of the London catacombs, all drowned in darkness to make it easier to render the CGI. At the end, there is no door, but a gate open for the next sequel and I will definitely not be there anymore. I've always considered Cruise to be a 100% pro who chooses his roles carefully, but he stepped in some serious shit here. Yet he is the only good thing about the whole film, he plays with such commitment that it makes me wish I had as much verve as him at 55. But the positives end there and the overseas reviews really didn't lie this time. This is truly one of the worst films Cruise has left his signature on. (10.06.2017)

It is so, so conflicting, what a shame. For a while it's an adaptation of Uncharted with everything, for a while it is and adventurous silly action movie with an annoying sidekick à la modern Mummy, for a while it continues in the darkened mode of gothic horror, at times it would very much like to refer to the style of good old universal movies, it often uses to the contemporary blockbuster plague "CGI solves everything", in the style of all contemporary franchise movies that make the universe go round, future thing are more indicated and actually told and... And you probably already got the idea. On the other hand, it's well-paced, most of the action has a drive, and even though it would be nice to replace Cruise with someone like new Price/Lee, nothing bad can be said about him this time. We cannot say it is a modernization of a (let alone respectful) of a true classic movie from the Universal department not even remotely. But as a (so far purely on the paper) more advanced alternative of all comic book cinemas series it´s enough to get by. Especially if the movie would have been in the same mode throughout the footage, preferably in Uncharted mode with slightly horror stylization. (07.06.2017)