Chris Vail reminds him the price of his arrogance. Jekyll puts him on check, Annabelle Wallis's archeologist Jenny Halsey hits him in the manhood and Jake Johnson's Cpl. He falls right into the role like a comfortable pair of worn pajamas, virtually sleepwalking his way through the production while Crowe's Dr. The character was practically tailor-made for Cruise, a familiar big-screen personality he's best at. Working under the guise of liberating rare and precious antiquities, the soldier is a smug and arrogant opportunist who fancies himself some kind of amateur archeologist and would probably call himself the real Indiana Jones if given the chance. It's basically a flawed production due to a larger endgame in mind, but it comes with plenty of admirable bits sprinkled throughout, starting with Tom Cruise's role as treasure-hunter Sgt. In truth, the film is not as bad as word of mouth would lead one to believe. The production hastily moves from one conversation and action set piece to the next in order to achieve its goal within an allotted runtime. Heck, audiences aren't even allowed a moment to simply enjoy the visual spectacle decorating all 110 minutes of a resurrected Egyptian princess, still fuming after thousands of years over a perceived betrayal, wreaking havoc upon modern-day London. Following in the footsteps of the current superhero craze, the filmmakers impatiently cram this fantasy-adventure horror feature with so many details of future projects, a rushed desire to establish their classic monsters cinematic universe, that there seems little room for characterization. Before even going into the story proper, this first quarter of the movie immediately hints at the problems surrounding this installment to Universal Studios' first official attempt at creating a Dark Universe. In The Mummy, a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters franchise that spans several decades, the film opens with not one but two separate preludes: one with a burial ritual of a Templar knight and the other an exposition flashback with Russell Crowe doing his best British aristocrat voice-over.
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