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"The Mummy" is a mess, a movie in such a hurry to introduce more monsters under Universal's "Dark Universe" banner that it comes awkwardly wrapped in impenetrable layers of exposition.
Tom Cruise occupies center stage in this not-quite-a-reboot, which features Sofia Boutella ("Kingsman: The Secret Service") as the Mummy, an Egyptian princess named Ahmanet who committed patricide, made a pact to unleash the god of death and was cursed by being buried alive for her troubles.
Flash forward to the present day, with Cruise as Nick Morton, a soldier and, as he puts it, "liberator of precious antiquities" who -- while fortune-seeking in Iraq -- inadvertently awakens Ahmanet, who winds up wreaking havoc in, around and finally under London.
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