5 reasons why Tom Cruise’s The Mummy is a flop

'I have no idea why my movie sucked...' US actor Tom Cruise at a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan in May. Photo: AFP

The Mummy has been buried. The movie opened at No.2 in the US box-office behind Wonder Woman.

With Tom Cruise in the lead, the revival was poised to be a beat-the-heat, popcorn-flinging summer blockbuster, a nostalgia grab for millennial fans of the 1999 title, and the launchpad for the studio's "Dark Universe" of monster movies.