10 Dumbest Movie Reboots Ever

10. The Mummy (2017)

The popular consensus on this reboot was, 'why are they remaking those Brendan Frasier films?'.

Well, folks, the Frasier films were already remakes, to begin with. But where those films at least took the franchise somewhere with something vaguely resembling a plan, Kurtzman and Cruise's film has absolutely no idea what it is trying to do from one minute to the next. In fact, it is so poorly shot, edited, and written that it's hard to even really classify it as a film.

Instead, it is essentially a forty-minute long Syfy TV special that has been stretched to feature length.

This is evident in the film's reuse of footage (it uses the exact same shot of slow-motion sparks that opens the film a grand total of six times throughout), in its retreading of plot points that have already been covered in this film (we get the Mummy's backstory footage not once, not twice, but four different times), and in the ideas it blatantly steals from much better films (An American Werewolf In London's decaying dead best friend, the face in the sand storm from the Frasier films, and even having the balls to drop The Bride of Frankenstein's most famous line).

Universal wanted this to kick off a Dark Universe and was so dead-set on it that they even chuck an opening logo in there for it. Maybe next time, check the quality of said film before quite literally betting the farm on it.