The Mummy Reborn (2019)

The Mummy Reborn (2019) 💀

⚠️ Content Warning

This is a horror/action film. Expect violence, some creepy imagery, low-budget effects, and a whole lot of decisions that will make you question everyone involved—both on screen and behind the camera.

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Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

Because this movie is trying REALLY hard to convince you it’s something bigger than it actually is.

You look at the poster and it’s screaming at you. Giant mummy face, glowing red eyes, explosions, people posing with guns like they’re about to go on the most intense desert mission of all time. It’s giving off that energy like, “hey, remember The Mummy? Yeah… we’re doing that too.”

And I’m sitting there like alright… I already know this isn’t gonna be that level, but maybe—maybe—it knows what it wants to be enough to be entertaining.

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It does not.

If y’all are wondering why i’m reviewing these now, it’s because we’re getting a new mummy film that just released today by Lee Cronin, so I thought it’d be a perfect time to look back at some niche mummy, movies or egyptian movies.

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Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

So the story follows a group of treasure hunters who are out searching for this ancient tomb that supposedly contains a powerful mummy. Right away you can tell what kind of movie this wants to be. It’s trying to tap into that whole adventure vibe, like Indiana Jones mixed with The Mummy, but with a much smaller budget and way less polish.

The main guy, Noah, is clearly meant to be the cool, experienced adventurer. The guy who’s been through dangerous situations before, knows what he’s doing, always stays calm under pressure. Except here, it doesn’t feel earned. It feels like he just decided he’s that guy and the movie went, “yeah, sure.”

The female lead is there as well, and she mostly functions as the person reacting to everything happening. She’s not bad, she just doesn’t get much to actually do. She’s along for the ride more than she’s driving anything.

Then you’ve got your villains, who are exactly what you expect. They want power, they want control, they want whatever ancient force is hidden in the tomb. There’s no depth to them, no real personality, just “we are the bad guys and we are here.”

So everyone ends up heading toward this tomb, messing with something they absolutely should not be messing with, and—like every movie in this genre—this leads to the mummy being awakened.

And once that happens, the movie just kind of… moves from one thing to the next without ever really building momentum.

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Tone & Atmosphere

This is where the movie starts to fall apart a bit.

It doesn’t commit to anything.

Sometimes it wants to be creepy, and to be fair, the mummy itself does have moments where it looks genuinely unsettling. The glowing eyes, the decayed skin, the way it moves—it taps into that classic “this thing should not be alive” feeling.

But then right after that, the movie shifts into action mode. Guns, running, shouting, people trying to be intense… and it just doesn’t blend together well.

So instead of feeling like a cohesive mix of horror and adventure, it feels like the movie keeps changing its mind every few minutes.

And that makes it hard to stay invested.

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Characters

The characters are one of the weaker parts of this movie.

Noah is supposed to carry the whole thing, but he never really convinces you. He acts like he knows what he’s doing, but his decisions don’t always reflect that. It feels more like he’s improvising his way through the situation instead of actually being in control.

The female lead, again, isn’t terrible, but she’s underwritten. She reacts, she survives, but she never really gets a moment where you go, “okay, this is her story too.”

And the villains… I mean, they’re just there. There’s nothing memorable about them. No standout moments, no real presence. They exist to move the plot forward and that’s about it.

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Final Thoughts

This is one of those movies where you can clearly see what it wanted to be, and it just didn’t have the ability to get there.

It wanted to feel like a big mummy adventure with horror elements mixed in. It wanted to capture that feeling of uncovering something ancient and dangerous. It wanted to feel intense.

But everything about it feels smaller than that.

The writing doesn’t fully land, the characters don’t stick with you, and the tone never settles into something that works consistently. There are flashes of something better, especially with the mummy itself, but those moments don’t carry the whole movie.

And in the end, that’s what you’re left with.

Not something terrible.

Just something that never quite becomes what it wanted to be.

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Final Rating

3.5/10

There’s a mummy in it… and honestly, that’s doing most of the work.

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SPOILERS

Alright… now let’s actually get into the part where this movie completely loses its grip.

So once the mummy is unleashed, this is where you expect things to escalate. This is the moment where the movie should go all in. The danger should feel real, the stakes should rise, and the characters should feel like they’re in way over their heads.

Instead, what happens is the movie kind of just… drifts.

The mummy shows up, does something, disappears, then comes back later. There’s no strong sense of progression. It doesn’t feel like the situation is getting worse in a meaningful way, it just feels like a series of encounters strung together.

And the whole idea that the movie is pushing, that this ancient being has “risen to take back what is his,” sounds so much more interesting than what we actually get. Because the movie never really explores that. It doesn’t dive into what that means, it doesn’t build any mythology around it, it just uses it as a line to sound dramatic.

There’s also no real sense of strategy or intelligence from the mummy itself. It doesn’t feel like this ancient force with purpose. It feels more like a monster that shows up when the script needs something to happen.

And that’s where it starts to feel repetitive. Characters run, the mummy chases, something happens, then we move on to the next location. There’s no moment where everything clicks together or where you feel like the story is building toward something bigger.

Even the confrontations don’t land the way they should. When characters come face to face with the mummy, it should feel intense, like this is the moment everything comes to a head. Instead, it just kind of happens and then the movie keeps going.

And then we get to the ending.

And this is where it really feels like the movie just runs out of steam.

There’s no big payoff. No moment where everything you’ve been watching builds into something satisfying. It just wraps things up quickly, like it suddenly realized it needed to end and didn’t know how to do it in a way that felt earned.

You’re left sitting there like:

“Wait… that’s it?”

And that’s honestly the feeling the whole movie leaves you with.

Not anger.

Not even disappointment.

Just that feeling of something that never fully came together.

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And yeah…

This is one of those movies where, by the time you’re done talking about it…

you’ve already started forgetting it 😭