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Topics: Tom Cruise, Netflix, Film and TV
Anish Vij
So it turns out that a Tom Cruise movie with a horrific Rotten Tomatoes rating is really popular on Netflix.
I mean, when the director says it was the 'biggest failure of my life' - it was a bad film.
Not all reboots can be good reboots, as is the case with Cruise's version of Brendan Fraser's The Mummy.
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It's safe to say that the synopsis for the 2017 reenactment promised a lot, but delivered very little.
It reads: "From the sweeping sands of the Middle East through hidden labyrinths under modern-day London, The Mummy brings a surprising intensity and balance of wonder and thrills in an imaginative new take that ushers in a new world of gods and monsters."
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The cast certainly promised a decent flick as it included the likes of Cruise, Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders), Jake Johnson (Jurassic World), Courtney B. Vance (TV’s American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson) and Oscar winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator).
However, people were just not into it as critics gave it a shocking score of 15 percent. The audience score wasn't much better, coming in at 35 percent.
It definitely fell short of the 1999 original, which scored 61 percent amongst critics and 75 percent with the audience.
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The critical consensus reads: "Lacking the campy fun of the franchise's most recent entries and failing to deliver many monster-movie thrills.
"The Mummy suggests a speedy unraveling for the Dark Universe."
Well, it seems that numbers aren't all important in the world of Netflix, as the film is currently in the 'top 10' trending films in the UK today, a the time of writing.
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Despite the film grossing over $410 million, director Alex Kurtzman told the Bingeworthy podcast that there are a ‘million things’ he regrets about making the Tom Cruise-led reboot.
"I tend to subscribe to the point of view that you learn nothing from your successes, and you learn everything from your failures," he said.
"And that was probably the biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally.
"There's about a million things I regret about it, but it also gave me so many gifts that are inexpressibly beautiful.
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"I didn't become a director until I made that movie, and it wasn’t because it was well-directed — it was because it wasn't."
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