The Mummy – aka Lee Cronin’s The Mummy – opens with the news that the locals, Layla Khalil (May Elghety), and her hubby have a mummy in the loft, as you do.
Meanwhile, Charlie Cannon (Jack Reynor – Cherry) is a news reporter in Cairo, who’s got the Breakfast TV job and before he can say, “Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque”, in his mind, he’s already moved his wife, Larissa (Laia Costa – Victoria) and kids into the area.
However, their daughter, Katie, is kidnapped, and 8 years later, she’s still missing. Now living in New Mexico, she’s been found, and has been exhumed from within her tomb – a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus – but before long, she’s more like Regan from The Exorcist, being an absolutely headcase, and running off into the crawlspace behind the walls.
Unwisely, they bring her home, even when it would be far more normal to have some hospital care for a time. However, this does lead to a ridiculous situation as the family drag her wheelchair upstairs with her in it – one step at a time, then simply carry her into bed. Why the chuff didn’t they do that originally?
Still, during her care, I did get one belly-laugh, which I’ll put behind a spoiler header…
Alas, while this film does include Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s Blinded By The Light, and The Weight by The Band, it’s ALL been done before. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is a rambling mess of a movie. It goes on far too long at 135 minutes, and not much would change if you took out all of the scenes and put them back in a random order.
Additionally, there’s a plane crash that comes into it, but I can’t even remember where that was meant to play a part.
And who the hell is Lee Cronin, anyway? Turns out, he last directed the mediocre Evil Dead Rise, in 2023.
And although this screening had subtitles, the film has a load of them already, since there’s a lot of dialogue in Arabic, but in the latter, did a number “7.14” really NEED to be written out “seven-point-one-four”?
Alas, it was a film with a typical shite horror audience that doesn’t know how to behave. I managed to get a sextet in their 20s to can it, but as well as a couple to my right at the end of the row who I shushed and they still did it to a degree, there were two blokes right at the back occasionally rambling. No idea what language it was, but at least the film was mostly noise.
Meanwhile, on the plus side, I found a mobile phone in the screen (no.17), which ended with The Mummy, but the screen looks to be showing several different films each day, and the phone must’ve got caught in the flap of the back of the chair, since I put my bag on the chair next to me (F5) I didn’t see it in the dark, but when I lifted my bag afterwards and the chair closed, I heard a clatter.
On seeing a phone, I realised it’s not mine as I already had that, but the make is unclear as the battery had died, but it had 3 camera lenses on the back, and in a clear case with a bank card in it, albeit one of those cards with no details on the front.
The staff member I passed it to said that someone had reported losing their phone in there earlier, and I know the feeling of losing one of mine in town – several years ago – and that was the last I saw of it. I presume the owner left a contact number with the cinema, but either way, they’ll have it by now.
NOTE: There is a post-credits moment as per my video below…
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is in cinemas now, and is available to pre-order on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD.
Detailed specs:
Cert: 
Running time: 134 minutes
Release date: April 17th 2026
Studio: Blumhouse Productions
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 (Anamorphic Panavision, X-OCN XT (8.6K))
Cinema: Odeon Trafford Centre
Rating: 1/10
Director: Lee Cronin
Producers: Jason Blum, John Keville, James Wan
Screenplay: Lee Cronin
Music: Stephen McKeon
Cast:
Charlie Cannon: Jack Reynor
Larissa Cannon: Laia Costa
Detective Dalia Zaki: May Calamawy
Katie Cannon: Natalie Grace
Sebastián Cannon: Shylo Molina
Maud Cannon: Billie Roy
Layla Khalil: May Elghety
Carmen Santiago: Veronica Falcón
Gamal Khalil: Omar El-Saeidi
The Magician: Hayat Kamille
Young Katie Cannon: Emily Mitchell
Doctor El-Sayed: Tim Seyfi
Professor Bixler: Mark Mitchinson
Vogel: Gideon Emery
Officer Adel Salah: Amr Atia
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