The Mummy (2017)

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Movie
German title The Mummy
Original title The mummy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Alex Kurtzman
script David Koepp ,
Christopher McQuarrie ,
Dylan Kussman
production Alex Kurtzman,
Chris Morgan ,
Sean Daniel ,
Roberto Orci
music Brian Tyler
camera Ben Seresin
cut Paul Hirsch ,
Gina Hirsch ,
Andrew Mondshein
occupation
synchronization

The Mummy (Original title: The Mummy ) is an American adventure film by director Alex Kurtzman from 2017 . It is a reboot of the film series around the 1932 film The Mummy and the first remake as part of the planned Dark Universe .

action

About 3200 years ago, at the time of the New Kingdom , the ancient Egyptian princess Ahmanet is said to ascend the throne and inherit from her father, Pharaoh Meneheptre. However, when the Pharaoh's first concubine gives birth to a son, Ahmanet loses her inheritance claim, because according to ancient Egyptian tradition the eldest crown prince always inherits the throne (and Meneheptre had no son to date). The princess feels betrayed and, furiously, makes a dark pact with the Egyptian god Seth . Then Seth hands her a cursed sacrificial dagger, with which Ahmanet first kills her father, his wife and their newborn son. Ahmanet is then supposed to stab her lover and thus sacrifice him to the deity: Seth needs a human body as a host in order to be able to develop and use his powers in the human world. Together, he and Ahmanet would have ruled Egypt as a royal couple. But when she wants to kill her lover, the Pharaoh's high priests storm into Ahmanet's bedchamber at the last moment, snatch the dagger from her and kill her lover with their own weapons. As punishment for the murders and attempt to let go of Seth to the earthly world, Ahmanet is alive mummified and deep under the sand, far from their homeland, buried. Her sarcophagus, covered with spells, is sunk in a tub full of mercury , and insidious traps are set in the grave.

3200 years later, in what is now Iraq , the grave is exposed by an air strike. Nick Morton, his companion Chris Vail and the archaeologist Jenny Halsey descend and recover the sarcophagus found in it, initially ignorant of what it contains. But Jenny gets nervous when she realizes that the tomb seems to be much more of a prison, especially the mercury and the traps alert her. Chris is bitten by a strange roller spider, and Ahmanet's vengeful ghost drives into Chris. This initially goes unnoticed by everyone. The adventurers and the sarcophagus are finally flown to England by plane. During the flight, Chris stabs Commander Greenway to death and then threatens to murder the other occupants as well. Nick is forced to shoot his own friend. As a result, the cockpit windows burst and a gigantic flock of crows invade the aircraft. The plane crashes and everyone except Jenny, who was provided with the only parachute by Nick in time and can jump, die in the impact.

In the Oxford Municipal Morgue , Nick wakes up naked and without a single scratch. There the ghost of Chris appears to him. Chris reveals to Nick that the latter only survived because Ahmanet wanted it this way: Nick is to be sacrificed to Seth, he was chosen when he broke open the sarcophagus. Nick then has visions of Ahmanet and, like Jenny, is lured to the crash site by them. Arrived at the crash site, both are surprised by the princess and her subordinates, but interrupted at the last second by privately hired mercenaries . After a short chase, Ahmanet and Nick are taken into custody by the special command. In a kind of museum, Nick meets Dr. Henry Jekyll and shortly afterwards his alter ego , Mr. Eddy Hyde. The doctor actually plans to complete the ritual of the princess, but wants to make Seth his own ally. The princess, meanwhile, manages to free herself and a game of cat and mouse begins across London. It ends in a subway tunnel, where Jenny is murdered by Ahmanet and Nick becomes the vessel for Seth. But the good side in Nick wins, he overpowers Ahmanet and literally sucks her life out. Then he uses Seth's powers, brings Jenny back from the dead and says goodbye to her before he disappears.

The ending shows Nick and his revived friend in the Egyptian desert in front of the pyramids of Giza , in search of ancient relics.

background

Initially, Len Wiseman was supposed to direct. After this jumped off, Andrés Muschietti was booked in the meantime until the director was finally found with Alex Kurtzman . Kurtzman cast Sofia Boutella as The Mummy because he was fascinated by her performance as Gazelle in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). The mummy was filmed in Oxford and Namibia from April to August 2016 .

With The Mummy , Universal Studios plans to start a new edition of the Universal horror films from the 1930s to 1950s.

The film celebrated its world premiere on May 22, 2017 at the State Theater in Sydney. The film was released in cinemas in the United States on June 9, 2017, and was released a day earlier in Germany.

synchronization

The German synchronization was directed by Dietmar Wunder based on a dialogue book by Klaus Bickert on behalf of Interopa Film .

role actor Voice actor
Nick Morton Tom Cruise Patrick Winczewski
The mummy / princess Ahmanet Sofia Boutella Rubina Kuraoka
Jenny Halsey Annabelle Wallis Maja Maneiro
Corporal Chris Vail Jake Johnson Björn Schalla
Colonel Greenway Courtney B. Vance Charles Rettinghaus
Dr. Henry Jekyll Russell Crowe Martin Umbach
Malik Marwan Kenzari Samir Fox

reception

Reviews

The film received mostly negative reviews. The film review portal Rotten Tomatoes gives the film 16% positive reviews and it has a Metascore of 34 out of 100 on Metacritic .

Manfred Riepe from epd Film says that formally the remake works like a well-oiled machine: "Every ten minutes the viewer is shaken by material battles and car chases, weightless in a crashing plane or under water, where crusader zombies try to kill the hero." there is no genre pattern that has not been burned up, says Riepe.

The film service judges: “New edition of the classic horror film series, in which 85 years after Boris Karloff a woman appears as a monster for the first time. The contourless protagonists lose themselves in countless effects, without the good-bad rifts growing into an almost exciting inner struggle. "

Gross profit

After its theatrical release in early June 2017, the film became number 1 worldwide and reached the top of the cinema charts in Russia, China, South Korea, France and Turkey, among others. In Germany, the film has so far recorded 387,067 visitors. The worldwide revenue from cinema screenings is approximately 407 million US dollars.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Mummy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 168256 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Mummy . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The mummy. moviepilot.de, accessed on May 31, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Annelies Gartner: Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe hit Sydney premiere for The Mummy In: The West Australian, May 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ The mummy. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Mummy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)Template: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  7. ↑ The Mummy at Metacritic (English)
  8. ↑ Manfred Riepe: Review of Die Mumie In: epd Film, June 12, 2017.
  9. ↑ Review of Die Mumie In: Filmdienst, June 12, 2017.
  10. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2017 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  11. ^ The Mummy In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved June 20, 2017.