The Mummy Dvd

The Mummy is a 2017 American action-adventure fantasy horror film directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie, and Dylan Kussman, with a story by Kurtzman, Jon Spaihts, and Jenny Lumet. It is a reboot of The Mummy franchise and is the only installment in Universal’s Dark Universe franchise. The film stars Tom Cruise as U.S. Army Sergeant Nick Morton, a soldier of fortune who accidentally unearths the ancient tomb of entrapped Egyptian princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella). Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, and Russell Crowe also star.

The Mummy premiered at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on May 22, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 9, 2017, in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and despite grossing $410 million worldwide, it was considered a box-office bomb, losing the studio as much as $95 million.

Plot

In present-day London, construction workers discover the tomb of a crusader knight who was buried with an Egyptian ruby in 1127 AD. In Iraq, U.S. Army soldiers Sergeant Nick Morton and Corporal Chris Vail discover the tomb of Princess Ahmanet, who attempted to summon the deity Set; she was caught and mummified alive. They and archaeologist Jenny Halsey fly Ahmanet’s sarcophagus to Britain.

During the flight, Chris is possessed by Ahmanet through a spider that bit him in the tomb and attacks the others, and is killed by Nick. Many crows attack the plane, causing it to crash, killing the crew except Jenny, who escapes by a parachute Nick gives her.

Nick returns to life in a morgue. Chris’s ghost appears and tells him he has been cursed by Ahmanet, who seeks to use him as a vessel for Set. Ahmanet’s mummy escapes from the sarcophagus and begins feeding on people to regenerate her body; she recovers the Dagger of Set and turns workers into zombies. They trap Nick and Jenny.

Soldiers appear and subdue Ahmanet. Their leader, Dr. Henry Jekyll, explains that Jenny is an agent of Prodigium, a secret society dedicated to hunting supernatural threats. Nick and Jenny discover that Dr. Jekyll intends to allow Set to possess Nick completely, believing that this will render Set vulnerable.

Jekyll transforms into Edward Hyde. Nick stops him with a serum that Jekyll invented for this purpose, and he and Jenny escape. Ahmanet finds them, regains the dagger, summons many crusader zombies, and creates a large sandstorm in London. Nick and Jenny escape again. The crusader zombies kill the Prodigium soldiers and Ahmanet recovers the ruby, combining it with the dagger in order to free Set.

Guided by Chris’s ghost, Nick and Jenny flee into the London Underground, where they are attacked by Ahmanet’s minions. Ahmanet captures Jenny and drowns her. Nick is injured when he tries to attack Ahmanet, and he lets Ahmanet embrace him as a ruse to steal the dagger and shatter the ruby. He strikes the pommel of the dagger against the floor, cracking the ruby. As he is about to shatter the ruby, Ahmanet reminds him that the dagger could grant him the power to reverse death. Instead of destroying the gem, he stabs himself; because the ruby is cracked, he is only partially possessed by Set. Nick goes to Ahmanet, but, remembering the words of Jenny and Dr. Jekyll, he turns on her and uses Set’s powers to extract Ahmanet’s lifeforce and resurrect Jenny. Knowing the Prodigium are coming for him, he says goodbye to Jenny and vanishes.

As Ahmanet is sealed back in her tomb, Jenny and Dr. Jekyll wonder whether Nick, now fused with Set, will use his powers for good. Nick returns to the desert and resurrects Chris. The two go on to a new adventure.

Cast

Director Alex Kurtzman with the film’s main actors. Left to right: Sofia Boutella, Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe.
Tom Cruise as Nick Morton, a U.S. Army sergeant.
Sofia Boutella as Ahmanet, the title character. She is loosely based on Imhotep from the original Mummy films, as well as the ancient Egyptian goddess, Amunet.
Annabelle Wallis as Jennifer “Jenny” Halsey, an archaeologist who has a past with Nick.
Jake Johnson as Chris Vail,[a] Nick’s friend and closest ally.
Courtney B. Vance as Colonel Greenway, Nick and Chris’s superior officer.
Russell Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll.
Marwan Kenzari as Malik, Jekyll’s chief of security and a member of Prodigium.
Javier Botet as Set, the ancient Egyptian god of death.