Okay so the Dark Universe, it's here and it's ready to bring scares to audiencers using some of Universal's greatest creations. Or so we thought.

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

We all remember The Mummy from the 90's, fun, light hearted and full of action. It tapped into the trend of the day and it won big style. The Mummy of 2017 fails to realise what it is or what it could be.

The problem here is that the writing here is not smart and with 6 credits to the films writing team, who can be surprised if things got muddled along the way. Universal's monsters were creepy, they were chilling, they were the darkness in the closet or hiding under the bed. In today's Dark Universe? Well we're not quite sure. The Mummy fails to set itself up as a franchise event because everything is focused on Tom Cruise' character Nick.

What makes this a huge mistake is that Nick as a character is the smart mouthed, handsome tomb raider who plunder gold and makes a profit from the dead. He's a thief, he's basically Nathan Drake from Uncharted. However, he seems too old for the role! (Is that ageist?)

Yes, some of the lines Tom Cruise delivers here is flat and he doesn't have that youthful charm he had back in the day, making the character a bitter pill to swallow.