Alex Kurtzman directs Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella and Russel Crowe in this horror actioner about a military trained grave robber who brings a cursed Egyptian ancient back with him to London. 

Nowhere near as bad as its almost immediate toxic reputation suggests, like the best of the Brendan Fraser series, this is merely a forgettably brash, energetic way to kill a couple of hours. Only with added Tom Cruise – always game and charming. It is an admittedly uneven film – aside from the most obvious source there’s a lot of the Uncharted games, the bantz of a Shane Black script, a little of the mythology of An American Werewolf in London, a swoosh of Terminator 2’s propulsive energy and the stunty sheen of a Mission: Impossible bunged in for good luck too. That’s a lot of quality influences though and even if they don’t all join up neatly it produces a one watcher with an abundance of deftly distracting bits. In fact, only the static half hour where we suddenly slow down and are introduced to the “Dark Universe” franchise stinks the room out and even that stink forgivably emanates from a knowingly hammy turn from Crowe… Guess what, motherfucker? Hammy Crowe is also throwaway fun too. Who care how much money it lost? Who cares if a Tom Cruise movie is just a Tom Cruise movie? Who cares if a summer dumber isn’t scary? Sofia Boutella shines in another heavily make-up plastered role. She is becoming the Boris Karloff of blockbuster sex symbols. She can curse my soul any day.

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