Despite leaving critics and audiences underwhelmed at the time, Tom Cruise’s The mummy Reboot is climbing the streaming charts. Cruz starred in the 2017 film as a US citizen. Intended to launch an interconnected franchise known as the Dark Universe, the movie was a critical and commercial failure, losing Universal Pictures a reported $60-95 million at the box office and leading to the shelving of the franchise.
Now, seven years later, Cruz S The mummy is starting to find success on Peacock. At the time of writing, The 2017 horror reboot holds the No. 3 spot on the platform’s Top 10 Movies Today List. The two titles currently above Cruise’s movie are the extended cuts of Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. The autumn guywhich recently became Peacock’s biggest film debut over Labor Day weekend, and the Kevin Bacon-starring 1990 horror-comedy, tremors.
Situated behind Cruz’s The mummy is an interesting mix of horror-related movies, action titles and even Jodie Sweetin’s romantic comedy in 2024. The heiress and the handyman At number 4. Behind the movie is 2018’s acclaimed horror legacy sequel HalloweenAndrew Garfield’s first Amazing Spider-Man Movie at number 6, the Tom Hardy and Austin Butler-starring crime drama The bakers At number 7, John Woo’s English-language remake of The killer At number 8, Radio Silence’s vampire horror-comedy Abigail In number 9 and F9: The Fast Saga In number 10.
Why Cruise’s Mommy reboot is climbing the streaming charts
This is not his only ill-received movie to find delayed success
Considering how poorly received the movie was at the time of its release, the fact that Cruise’s Mommy Reboot is climbing the streaming charts comes as something of a surprise. Beyond losing Universal upwards of $95 million and scrapping an entire franchise, The movie also proved to be one of the worst reviewed Mommy Movies to date From the studio, even despite the poor reviews, most previous installments have performed well. Look like the various universal Mommy Movies compared on Rotten Tomatoes in the chart below:
|
Title |
RT critics score |
RT audience score |
|---|---|---|
|
The Mummy (1932) |
89% |
74% |
|
The mummy’s hand |
60% |
47% |
|
The mummy’s tomb |
29% |
22% |
|
The Mummy’s Ghost |
33% |
17% |
|
The Mummy’s Curse |
40% |
20% |
|
Abbott and Costello meet the mummy |
25% |
47% |
|
The Mummy (1999) |
62% |
75% |
|
The mummy returns |
46% |
63% |
|
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor |
13% |
30% |
|
The Mummy (2017) |
15% |
35% |
Despite the poor reception of the movie, there are various reasons for Cruz Mommy is starting to gain some popularity on streaming charts. With the arrival of the Halloween season, audiences are certainly looking for more horror-oriented fare, and even while Peacock has a number of other options, including the aforementioned. Abigail, Being in the Top 10, Cruz is a familiar face that viewers will be drawn to watching. interesting, The mummy isn’t the only poorly received Cruise-led movie to find streaming success recentlylike Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Has frequently appeared on Netflix’s Top 10 over the past year.
Our take on The Mummy’s streaming success
A prime example of too many cooks in the kitchen
As has often been reported in the seven years since the movie came out, part of the reason why The mummy Failure was the various creative voices going on at any one time during its production, with Multiple reports point to Cruise often exercising creative control to turn it into another action vehicle for him. Regardless of whether this is actually true, the final product for the 2017 movie certainly showed that there are too many cooks in the kitchen, with its tone never being quite consistent between a general modern action blockbuster and direct horror movie.
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Even still, I’m actually kind of happy to see that The mummy has found some success on streaming nearly a decade later. The first third of the movie is actually quite entertaining, while the American Werewolf in London-The dynamic between Cruise and Jake Johnson’s Chris provides some great comedy, even if the rushed Dark Universe setup near the middle of the film drastically undermines this early work. In addition, although we may have missed a rare horror interconnected universe, the failure of the Dark Universe has, at least, turned into the excellent Invisible man Reboot and update Wolf man Reboot.