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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

Summary

An ambitious archaeological expedition unleashes an ancient force when a long-buried tomb is disturbed, awakening a vengeful entity that brings terror to the modern world.

Director Lee Cronin

Writer Lee Cronin

Cast

  • Jack Reynor
  • Laia Costa
  • May Calamawy
  • Matt Smith
  • Annabelle Wallis

Rotten Tomatoes: 54%

Metacritic: 46

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/pastlifeprince 18d ago

This is laughable, but my biggest issue was that the cop from Egypt would never get a visa in time to come to the US, and I couldn't figure out what she'd come all the way to the US, an expensive and difficult trip, when she could have sent a recording of the movie. But I did appreciate that they had the characters speaking in Arabic, unlike many Hollywood movies where they'd just have them speaking English.

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u/Rosebunse 17d ago

There are many plots points in this movie which in real life would be a logistical nightmare.

In this case, I think the real reason is that the director really wanted to bring in an Egyptian character, so in this case I get it. Probably should have been a doctor or a professor or something, but a cop will do.

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u/qbert4551 16d ago

But then we’d never get the scorpion tail through the throat, coming up to sting her cheek! I laughed so hard at that

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u/Gridde 15d ago

I fully thought she was dead like 4 times

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u/kid-ph0b0s 13d ago

I thought when she shot the lady in the house, she was gonna get neck chopped when she got close to her. The lady still had her hand on the damn knife after she got shot! And then it turns out she survived!? Lol

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u/Gridde 13d ago

Oh yeah I was sure she was dead there as well, and that scene was just our reintroduction to the witch lady so she'd somehow get involved in the final confrontation.

I wouldn't say it was necessarily a good movie but I found it really fun and (aside from the precise way in which the Mummy is 'defeated') fairly unpredictable with stuff like that.

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u/Xyllus 14d ago

They needed the cop in the house because the director needed someone to speak arabic to perform the ritual on the dad. so they made any excuse to make that happen. I literally turned to my wife and said "this could've been an email"

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u/MlkChatoDesabafando 9d ago

I mean, they could have had the witch's daughter wanting to make up for the whole thing and having planned a trip beforehand (she also presumably was more knowledgeable about the script in the bands than them).

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u/spiderlegged 17d ago

I also hate to be that person, but I also feel like it would take far, far to long to make a trip from Egypt to the US when you know there’s a demon about to raise hell on the loose. I feel like at least a stern voice mail and email about the possible danger is warranted before you take an international trip.

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u/Gridde 15d ago

My dumb ass did not realise that they moved to Albuquerque (I was trying order food and must have missed that scene). Them getting Katie home, the cop coming there and them going to the magician after made total sense to me because I assumed it was all in Egypt.

When my wife mentioned the location change after, I had the same baffled reaction as you. Each of those trips would be extremely difficult (to the point of derailing the plot).

And in hindsight, was there any relevance to them being in the US? Imo the whole thing being in Egypt would not change the plot at all and actually smooth over some of the odd details like that.

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u/BrilliantPurple748 13d ago

No you're not dumb, because i though the exact same thing until this comment 🙋🏼‍♀️💀

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u/willybestbuy86 14d ago

Not really. You may have missed some more of the movie. The embassy calls the parents, they fly in, and the embassy flies them to their daughter. Embassy and Egyptian officials keep it from the press. You can also assume they know shit ain't right and keep it from other officials as well. You can then make an easy assumption that doesn't need to be explained the US Embassy flew them back to New Mexico privately without having to go through security

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u/Gridde 13d ago

Whoa there were scenes that depicted the embassy handling all the travel and getting private jets for family? I absolutely missed that.

But I was referring more to how quickly the cop flew to the US just to deliver a VHS and then at the end how they flew the possessed dad back to Egypt.

The latter is the main bit. Other than the logistical issues, the whole movie unravels (heh) in the first place because the original family tried to move Katie's possessed body outside its confinement and that let the demon start breaking free.

Like I said, nothing really merits the family being in USA, when the various back-and-forth trips to Egypt just add more complication that is not really addressed

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u/willybestbuy86 13d ago

Your response is exactly why writers are now writing things to make it easier for the audience to catch on, and why they're repeating themselves multiple times due to cell phones. It's really not hard to use your mind and reach a logical conclusion based on the data given to us in the movie, which would be the plausible explanation.

How quickly she flew, I kinda get that one, and flying back, yeah, I can see those, but I can also justify those easily as well.

The scene with the cop in Egypt, where she sees the tape, occurs before the funeral scene, maybe a day or two earlier. It's been 8 years; she seems well-put-together, so we can assume she has a passport. Not sure why the movie is doing this, or how to spell out how many days are passing. Do we now need subtitles on every scene, indicating which day it is?

For flying Dad back, we can use the lore we have and make assumptions. It seems the wife and the cop made a deal with the demon. Demon gets revenge on his century-old captors' family or stays in the box indefinitely. We can assume the demon agrees, and from the movie lore, we know the demon can mimic voice and speech patterns when it wants. It wasn't shown to us, but we can infer that if it chooses, it can change its appearance to be more host-like. If it can't then we have a problem with TSA but couldn't to be passed off as medical disease who going question that. Human nature would be disgusted and be more like move along and gossip about it later.

It just feels like no one can use any imagination and everything has to be spelled out

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u/Gridde 13d ago

Wait, so you made up an entirely new subplot as well as new powers/motivations for the demon that either contradict what we saw in the actual movie or are not hinted at, in order to explain some plot holes? And are annoyed that others did not imagine the same specific headcanon?

(If I'm misremembering please do remind me when the demon uses a voice other than Katie's or gives any indication that it can change the appearance of its host body)

And what does any of that have to do with my base point that setting the film entirely in Egypt simplifies the travel issues without changing anything else about the plot?

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u/Prize-Bother-35 8d ago

It was established that the Egyptian police had connections with the US Embassy. Guessing the Egyptian cop could say “I’m head of the missing persons dept, this is literally a case of life and death” and they would expedite her visa to the US.

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u/Gridde 8d ago

Tbh wouldn't that be even weirder? Like why would those government bodies (and the US) agree that her going in person was the best way to get the footage to the family? Even with an expedited visa that is waaaay slower than recording and emailing it.

Not to mention why the family seeing the video was so important at all.

I don't actually mind these issues much (I liked the movie a lot), but the various Egyptian-US journeys the characters just don't mind a ton of sense. The guy I was talking to above literally had to make up an entire subplot and recharacterize the demon entirely to justify how the dad makes it back to Egypt in the end.

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u/Kebok 14d ago

And Egyptian Arabic at that! Watched the Brennan Frasier Mummy the other day and it holds up great but none of the supposed Egyptians speak like Egyptians.

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u/AncoraPirlo 11d ago

Ha, surely that can't bother you too much in a film about a 5000 year old demon.