‘The Mummy’ turns out to be Tom Cruise’ biggest mistake

‘The Mummy’ is about to hit theaters on Friday but movie critics, however got a peek under wraps this week. Majority of them has slammed Tom Cruise’s upcoming movie and called it ‘worst’ in his career.

Entertainment Weekly wrote, “It stands out like a flat note on a grand piano. It’s not that Cruise hasn’t had misfires before but The Mummy is the first of his films that doesn’t feel like a Tom Cruise movie”.

Variety wrote, “The new Mummy, you may be surprised to hear, doesn’t have a whole lot of show-stopping visual flimflam up its sleeve. Instead, it’s built around a chancy big trick. All of it turns out to be a lot less fun than the stupid zappy Mummy movies of the ’00s”.

“It unfortunately looks like the domestic fate of Universal’s The Mummy, the first title in the studio’s monster Dark Universe, is sealed: Warner Bros./DC’s Wonder Woman is expected to give the Tom Cruise movie a lesson in manhood at the box office in a respective runoff that’s $60M to $35M-$42M,” Deadline reported.

According to The New York Times, “The Mummy gestures or flails in a number of directions but settles into the dreary 21st-century action-blockbuster template. There’s chasing and fighting, punctuated by bouts of breathless explaining and a few one-liners that an archaeologist of the future might tentatively decode as jokes”.

The Hollywood Reporter’s John DeFore actually calls Cruise ‘weirdly out of place’ as he plays a character who’s ‘a stiff’ in a ‘limp, thrill-free debut’ for the Dark Universe.

‘The Mummy’ opens tomorrow in 4,036 theaters plus Imax and RealD.