Genre: Horror, action, fantasy, adventure

Rating: PG-13

Run time: 1 hr 50 mins

Starring:

Tom Cruise as Sargeant Nick Morton

Annabelle Wallis as Dr. Jennifer "Jenny" Halsey

Sofia Boutella as Princess Ahmanet

Russell Crow as Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde

Summary: After discovering an ancient Egyptian tomb in modern day Iraq, a sargeant in the U.S. Army inadvertently frees the evil, power-hungry princess imprisoned inside the tomb, unleashing an unspeakable darkness.

Content advisory

Sex & Nudity:

Ahmanet, the titular Mummy, has just enough wrappings to cover her private parts.

Nick wakes up naked in a morgue after a plane crash. Jenny and two coroners come into the room, shocked to see Nick alive. Nick realizes he's naked and quickly covers himself.

In a vision, Ahmanet kisses Nick on the lips after he has inadvertently freed her.

In another vision, Nick lays shirtless in bed with Ahmanet on top of him. She attempts to seduce him and get him to willingly accept his fate as her vessel for the Ancient Egyptian god Set, with the promise that he will be a living god with power over life and death and that the two of them will rule over the whole world as King and Queen. Sex does not take place. 

Towards the end of the film, Ahmanet licks Nick's cheek with her overly-long tongue, showing her desire and attraction to him.

In a scene towards the beginning of the film, Ahmanet's butt is shown.

Violence & gore: 

Ahmanet is shown sparing with her warrior

Ahmanet slits her palm with a knife and allows a few drops to drip into a goblet of water or oil, summoning the Ancient Egyptian god Set.

Ahmanet murders her father, stepmother, and infant brother after the birth of her brother causes her to lose her position as heir to the Ancient Egyptian throne. 

After she does so, she is shown attempting to sacrifice her lover to Set, but the deceased Pharoah's priests find out about her crimes and kill her lover. 

They mummify her alive. Nothing too graphic is shown, just them placing her wrapped body in a sarcophagus, closing it, taking the sarcophagus far out of Egypt, and burying it in an Egyptian tomb in Mesopotamia. They even gave her eye holes in the wrappings. 

In modern day Iraq, Nick and his companion piss off a bunch of Iraqi insurrectionists in their stronghold, causing Micheal Bay movie-level amounts of gunfire and explosions. 

His companion, Corporal Chris Vail (Jake Johnson), calls in an airstrike during the pandemonium, much to Nick's anger and horror. 

Jenny Halsey slaps Nick the second she shows up on screen, angry at him for sleeping with her and making off with a note and map belongings to her and without a goodbye.

Vail starts shooting at a bunch of camel spiders after one has bitten him. This freaks out Jenny and Nick, as they all are in the hole of Ahmanet's tomb, and the bullets ricochet. 

Nick fires at a chain, causing the mechanism to bring Ahmanet's sarcophagus out of a pool of mercury inside the tomb.

On a cargo plane, Vail becomes violent after the bite of the camel spider takes effect (the spider is a magic one controlled by Ahmanet). He murders Colonel Foster (Courtney B. Vance) and then tries to stab Jenny. Nick shoots him three times, killing him.

A flock of scary crows, controlled by Ahmanet, plows into the cargo plane, taking out the engines, most of both wings, and the cockpit windshield. This causes the plane to go into an uncontrollable descent. 

When the plane crashes, everyone on board is killed except for Jenny, who was given the last parachute, which Nick pulled.

Ahmanet sucks the life out of two policemen near the crash site, regaining strength and turning the men into zombies.

Ahmanet commands a bunch of rats to attack Nick outside of a London pub.

Inside a church, Nick is attacked by zombies who overpower him and drag him onto the Altar, where Ahmanet attempts to stab him in the chest and offer him as a human sacrifice to Set, which would allow Set to inhabit Nick's body, completing the pact she made with Set. She does not complete the ritual when she realizes Jenny has entered the church.

In a vision, Ahmanet straddles a shirtless Nick and raises the ceremonial dagger (complete with the ruby), intending to offer him as a sacrifice and vessel to Set. But she does not follow through, as it is only a vision. 

In a forest near the church, Nick picks up a branch and approaches Ahmanet with it, intending to attack her. But she sends him flying.

A couple minutes later, soldiers shoot Ahmanet with darts laced with mercury, weakening her and they capture her.

Jekyll turns into Hyde and attacks Nick. A hand-to-hand fight ensues between them. Hyde nearly wins until Nick injects him with serum, turning him back into Dr. Jekyll. 

Nick fights off Ahmanet's zombies as he and Jenny run through the London underground. 

Ahmanet kills Jenny in a rage by drowning her.

During the final confrontation, Nick charges at Ahmanet, who strikes him with a blow hard enough to knock him to the ground.

After she does so, she grabs him by the back of his neck and forces him to look at the lifeless body of Jenny, telling him she knows that Jenny's death grieves him and offers to take the pain away. Then, she throws him across the room.

Nick gets back up and charges at her again, only to be thrown to the ground with another blow.

Nick stabs Ahmanet in the leg.

Ahmanet grabs Nick by the neck after she breaks his leg and he snatches the dagger from her.

After he rejects her, she throws him across the room--again.

Nick bangs the ruby in the dagger's pommel once against the floor, cracking the ruby. He goes to bang the ruby against the floor a second time, but Ahmanet stops him.

A moment or two later, he appears to hand the dagger back to her so she can complete her ritual, only to stab himself in the abdomen with it, completing the ritual himself.

After Set's essence enters him, Nick regains control of himself long enough to kick her butt. He then sucks out her life-force, killing her and reducing her to a shriveled corpse. 

Intense & frightening scenes:

This is a Mummy movie so scary scenes are typical fare.

The scenes in which Ahmanet sucks the life out of people can be a bit scary.

The sandstorm sequence can be intense.

The scene in which Nick's face turns monstrous as he resurrects Jenny can be scary.

Alcohol & drugs:

Nick drinks several shots of alcohol and then a full mug of beer while at a pub in London with Jenny. I think we should cut him some slack on his alcohol consumption since he had just been brought back to life after dying in a plane crash. 

Profanity:

B*tch is used several times.

"Bloody" is also used several times.

Performances: Sofia Boutella, who I know as Jaylah in Star Trek: Beyond, is excellent as Princess Ahmanet. I have seen quite a few depictions of Ancient Egyptian women, especially those of the upper classes, and I know they are drop-dead gorgeous. Sofia Boutella's Princess Ahmanet is no exception, especially when she's in her human form. Though she appears quite ghastly in her mummy form at first, she becomes a Cute Monster Girl as she regains her strength. It's easy to see and understand why Tom Cruise's Nick Morton is momentarily tempted by her offer of power over life and death, world domination, and an eternity together.

Annabelle Wallis, who I know as Queen Jane Seymour in The Tudors, is great as Jenny Halsey.

Russel Crowe, who I know as Robin Hood and Inspector Javert in Les Mis, is great as Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde. I wasn't expecting the dual character of Jekyll and Hyde to be in this movie, but on second thought, he fits right in.

And last but certainly not least, Tom Cruise is fantastic as Nick Morton. I love Tom Cruise as an actor and his presence in this movie is what piqued my interest in it. I have made my position on people trying to change my mind about him or making me feel bad for liking him clear in my "Diary of a Fangirl" entry about Ethan Hunt. I am picky about which Tom Cruise movies I will watch (Tropic Thunder is definitely out of the question). Nick is a jerk, but thanks to TC's performance, he's a lovable jerk.

Christian/Catholic themes, if any: There is a ray of hope for Nick at the end, because as long as he holds onto his humanity, he can and will find a way to break the curse placed upon him and free himself from being possessed by Set.

In fact, that's exactly what he's setting out to do at the end, with Vail by his side. So even though he has mummy bandages wrapping his hands, don't worry. Even when he is, to all extents and purposes, a monster, Nick Morton is not lost forever. There is still every chance and hope of redemption.

Other notes: The English Crusader knights kneeling to Ahmanet makes no sense. Why would a bunch of Christian knights bend the knee to a pagan princess let alone fight for her? 

Ahmanet expressing that she will be Set/Nick's Queen is a big step down from ruling the world as Queen in her own right. 

As usual, Hollywood tampers with polytheistic mythology again. In some cases, I actually like it when they do (think the MCU and Norse mythology). But in this movie, it's OK, but I'm not super enthusiastic about it. Now how did they tamper with pagan mythology? Simple. They presented Set as the Egyptian God of Death. In reality, he's not the God of Death. Anubis is. Set is the Egyptian God of Chaos, Storms, the Desert, and Foreigners. He's the Ancient Egyptian equivalent of Loki. But sure, Hollywood, I'll accept that Set is the Ancient Egyptian God of Death in this movie since Nick ends up fusing himself with Set and resurrects Jenny using Set's powers. And it also set him up to be a tortured soul. And that's a kind of character that I can't resist.

Too bad this movie did poorly when it was released, because if it had done well, we would have gotten TC Mummy sequels.

Overall: This movie was super entertaining. I liked it a lot.