The Mummy reviews were embargoed until Wednesday morning, but long before critics drew their knives, the signs were there: three screenwriters and three separate "story-by" credits, the premature/forced an**uncement that it would lead off Universal Studios' shared "Dark Universe" films, and a newbie director whose writing credits include Cowboys & Aliens, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek Into Darkness and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
**t even Tom Cruise himself — going for some rogue-ish Indiana Jones-type that's **t really his flavor — could save The Mummy from what was to come. In fact, Cruise is just one of the elements that reviewers loathed about The Mummy, which was hovering around 25% on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing. Read more...