For the short and sweet: it has unsettling and creepy elements, but the movie is essentially Evil Dead Rise with an Egyptian skin suit thrown in.
Wokeness: there’s a main female cop who isn’t some Mary sue badass, the main family is white/hispanic from New Mexico and the dad isn’t a pushover, plus is instrumental to the plot. No gay/trans/whatever casting. The cast is fairly “diverse” but realistic to the regions.
Overall I wanted to like this movie but it just wasn’t Mummy, it was a supernatural demon possession movie with minor Egyptian elements. There’s plenty of gore, grossness, and grotesque which will satiate Evil Dead fans, but not anything to really make it a Mummy movie.
So if you just want a gruesome ride with a family trying to save their daughter it’s a solid 6-7 movie, but if you want actual Mummy with Ancient Egyptian lore, esotericism, and iconography you’re going to be left wanting.
I think Mummy stories tend to work better as action/quest movies than horror films. Even the Chaney movies weren't straight up horror.
I've noticed in a lot of recent horror movie reviews many monsters are referred to as "basically deadites." Which I guess means sentient zombies that like to rip people apart for funsies.
Mummy stories work because they used the awe factor I posted about before with space. Using the awe factor of an ancient civilization and their mythos to create an adventure/horror story. This was another generational awe factor, the greatest generation was absolutely overwhelmed with ancient civilization Egypt and archeology the same way the boomers were awed by space and that frontier. Hollywood doesn’t try to instill awe because their writers are inspired by money and politics so their work becomes slop.
And what what is our "awe factor"?
For the left? trannies and surrogate babies.
Remigration
I kind of agree, the monsters like Mummy's and to some extent named ones like Frankenstein's monster and Dracula lend themselves to either be action/theatre and possibly a bit comedy and corny.
Compare this with zombies who have, forgive the language, more diversity from the classic shuffling corpse, the 'are they actually zombies' RAGE virus of 28 Days later to the 'WTF IS THAT!' of Last of Us or Dead Space Necromorphs which lend themselves more into horror.