10 Most Disappointing Movie Reboots Since 2000

Intended to launch Universal’s Dark Universe, The Mummy instead set tongues wagging with its bizarre creative choices. Why did Russell Crowe’s Dr Jekyll transform into Ray Winstone? Who decided to give Tom Cruise an undead comic relief sidekick?

Of all the phrases you’d never imagine yourself using before this film came out, “Tom Cruise is no Brendon Fraser” is top of the list, and this Mummy never manages to be as much dumb fun as the 1999 movie. That film might’ve been a glorified Indiana Jones-style adventure but it at least had a consistent tone and enough large-scale action sequences to cover its redundancies.

Never particularly funny, thrilling or appealing, this is one movie that might have benefited from Gerard Butler in the lead (emphasis on might have) who by now can make any nonsense at least partially interesting. Laugh all you like, but he still managed to turn Olympus Has Fallen into a franchise.