Home Featured Content

9 Movies We’re Absolutely Dreading This Year

The average person gets to pick and choose their films. Critics, however, don’t have that luxury. Although, given the job description, many would concur that it’s a small price to pay. Any critic worth their salt walks into the cinema with an open mind, and emerges from the darkened room with a painfully honest assessment of their experience. Candidness is key to great criticism, and the brilliant writers of days gone by have previously rushed to support this theory. If you didn’t like a film that everybody else did – admit it.

7) The Mummy

Recommended Videos

You have to give the execs at Universal credit for their perseverance. The studio has so much faith in its long-running The Mummy property – the franchise first began with Boris Karloff wrapped in bandages all the way back in 1932 – that they’ve released four movies based on the concept in the last two decades. Eight, in fact, if you count the mostly straight-to-DVD Scorpion King spinoff franchise. The latest is this modern-day reboot starring Tom Cruise of all people.

What’s leaving us dreading this one, then, is the utter pointlessness of it. We’ve only recently had another action/adventure take on the franchise in Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy movies from the 2000s, starring Brendan Fraser. Sure, this one looks a little darker and will probably have an original story, but it reeks of the studio just fishing for cash.

It’s also the latest installment in a cinematic universe that really hasn’t got us excited so far. 2014’s Dracula Untold was an underwhelming origin story for the Prince of Darkness (though apparently that’s not cannon anymore) and now we have this overly-familiar reboot – which, don’t forget, will also shoehorn in Russell Crowe’s Dr. Jekyll/Mr Hyde. Who knows? The Mummy could surprise us, but we’re not holding out much hope.

But hey, at least we’ve got Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man coming up. Yay?

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10