The Real Reason Why The Mummy Flopped At The Box Office

How can an action movie tank at the box office when it has Tom Cruise as its leading man? He is arguably the biggest action star of the last thirty years.

He is Maverick from Top Gun, Ethan Hunt from the successful Mission: Impossible film franchise, Nathan Algren from The Last Samurai, and Major William Cage in The Edge of Tomorrow.

So, why did his latest movie The Mummy flop at the box office? He is Tom Cruise; he gets people in movie theatres. Is his Hollywood star fading or was the movie doomed to fail from the beginning?

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Critical curse | 0:00
Wrongheaded reboot | 1:38
Rehash fatigue | 2:35
Cart before horse | 3:14
Star power-outage | 4:05
Buzz need | 4:51
No wonder | 5:27
Salvaged overseas | 5:55

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