2017 · fantasy · thriller · action
The Mummy
Directed by Alex Kurtzman1h 50m2017
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Our read: The Mummy (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal fantasy · thriller · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme fantasy / thriller, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- cold
- twisty
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