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The Mummy is proof that Hollywood should stop making films about ancient Egypt
The uncritical among you would say that it’s just a movie, but some of us aren’t down with non-western cultures being used as fodder by western cultural institutions for cartoonish fantasy.
Leaving aside the lack of encyclopedic merit, the film is hollow on almost every other front. The movie is directed by Alex Kurtzman who also directed the Transformers and, from the get-go, The Mummy is a very Alex Krurtzman film in the worst way possible.