This is no real CGI extravaganza with bombastic effects, and it has no final battle. But at the same time it's not a dark somber thriller on the verge of horror, and also it's not really an action-adventure with funny quips. It's also not a low-mid budget monster hunting action-thriller.
This movie is a rushed Frankenstein monster, you can clearly see that. It starts with an action-adventure vibe with jokes and snarky characters, then it suddenly turns into a pg-13 horror-thriller and then to a monster horror then into a disaster movie and then into some kind of dark drama but then comes back into the same beginning with jokes and quips. I can easily imagine producers telling the writers "Just make it happen, the charts say people want this, this and this! Don't worry about it, they will eat it up."
The problem with this movie (goes for all similar ones) is that it is supposed to be the first movie in a Cinematic Universe. But! They do things in a way much different from Marvel. They want to create what Marvel created, but Marvel made movies which could stand on their own. You could basically start to watch Iron-Man 2 and you wouldn't really feel like you do not understand it at all. Or even Iron-Man 3 (which is after Avengers!).
But going into this movie, you are force fed that this is a cinematic universe. You are introduced to so many characters which are obviously supposed to have bigger story arcs in later movies, and in all of that cinematic universe introduction, there is some random Mummy plot thrown into the mix, so that something could hold all of these loose ends together. There are just too many unanswered questions, and too many seemingly random characters. It feels like you are already watching some later movie, maybe the 5th one in this whole cinematic universe, and this one just happens to have a mummy in it.
Caution: Do not turn this film in to a drinking game where you take a shot every time you miss Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. You'll be dead in twenty minutes. I give this film three points for technical competence and for Sofia Boutella as an awesome female mummy.
This movie is a rushed Frankenstein monster, you can clearly see that. It starts with an action-adventure vibe with jokes and snarky characters, then it suddenly turns into a pg-13 horror-thriller and then to a monster horror then into a disaster movie and then into some kind of dark drama but then comes back into the same beginning with jokes and quips. I can easily imagine producers telling the writers "Just make it happen, the charts say people want this, this and this! Don't worry about it, they will eat it up."
The problem with this movie (goes for all similar ones) is that it is supposed to be the first movie in a Cinematic Universe. But! They do things in a way much different from Marvel. They want to create what Marvel created, but Marvel made movies which could stand on their own. You could basically start to watch Iron-Man 2 and you wouldn't really feel like you do not understand it at all. Or even Iron-Man 3 (which is after Avengers!).
But going into this movie, you are force fed that this is a cinematic universe. You are introduced to so many characters which are obviously supposed to have bigger story arcs in later movies, and in all of that cinematic universe introduction, there is some random Mummy plot thrown into the mix, so that something could hold all of these loose ends together. There are just too many unanswered questions, and too many seemingly random characters. It feels like you are already watching some later movie, maybe the 5th one in this whole cinematic universe, and this one just happens to have a mummy in it.
Caution: Do not turn this film in to a drinking game where you take a shot every time you miss Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. You'll be dead in twenty minutes. I give this film three points for technical competence and for Sofia Boutella as an awesome female mummy.