Never seen a movie like this...

Find it funny that you made this post, I just saw the movie and was about to say what utter piece of shit it was.

completely agree...

I kept thinking the same thing while watching it...

I kept thinking to myself, whats the goal here, this is a reboot, what are they going for...the trailers pushed it as an Action film...but then watching the film, It tried to be some horror,some comedy,some action, and a lot of "Universe Building"...and IMO it did not succeed in any of those...the action wasn't great, the horror wasn't really scary, The Comedy wasn't very funny and The Universe Building didn't take...

I liked the film...but nothing about it felt special and I just couldn't help but be turned off by the movie having no "Focus" and its attempt to cover every genre

I've read reports about the director really being in over his head, It was only his 2nd movie and his only "HUGE" budget movie...

It does feel like the director kind lost control of this film and its script...

I think this movie was originally planned out as a horror movie. But everything changed when Tom Cruise got into this. If a movie bears the name Tom Cruise nowadays it has to be big, actiony and funny with explosions and one-liners.

The problem is the horror angle somehow still intact, which ruined everything. This is almost as fun and adventurous as Guardian of the Galaxy style cheese action movie. With Tom Cruise as a wise-ass Chris Pratt (Chris Pratt is the young version of Tom Cruise anyway), and mummies and monsters instead of aliens. What not to be loved?

Yet the horror themes persisted and broke all the fun. It should have been a horror flick without Tom Cruise or a Tom Cruise flick without horrors, not both!

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I thought it seemed clear that they were going for a little of everything.

They wanted action scenes that were truly thrilling. They wanted horror scenes that were genuinely terrifying. And they wanted some humor to maintain a fun and crowd-pleasing tone throughout.

While I think the '99 Mummy is much better, this one more or less worked for me as well.

My biggest complaint is that from time to time it basically devolves into a zombie movie and zombie movies are SO fucking played out right now.

For me it felt just like another generic adventure movie.

It is a known rule among many filmmakers that to create tension in horror or thriller you have to bring in humour to relieve the tension in order to build it again, it comes in waves. Horror and comedy are indelible parts of almost all horror films. It's not really comedy per se in these films, only a humour that many people use when being scared or under great pressure as a way how to cope, the humour is part of life, which is in this film, not intentionally cooked up elaborated comedy to laugh at. It's all about rythm and mood.

Should have been scarier! I especially loved the ending, the tone would have been somewhere there for the entire movie. It's a horror/monster universe after all.
But I think their aim was to do something like the Pirates of the Caribbean series (wich I absolutely love, but just doesn't fit the subject here)