10 Great Movie Franchises That Lost It By The End

9. The Mummy

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The Mummy franchise had a huge hand in making Brendan Fraser a star. He played Rick O'Connell, the American adventurer who stumbles across the resting place Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian priest and ends up embroiled in a magical adventure with distinctly creepy undertones.

It was very much a mash-up of the old Universal Monsters spirit with something more golden age action adventure movie that leaned heavily on Fraser's charm. It wasn't quite as infallibly swash-buckling as older type movies, but the silliness that made it more open to family audiences was definitely a big selling point.

The 1999 film spawned sequels and prequels, which got increasingly bad over time. Once they reached the point that the last vestiges of the Fraser franchise finally died out, it paled in comparison to the movie that started it all. They lacked the pseudo-Indiana Jones adventure vibe that made it popular and degraded into barely mediocre fantasy action films.

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