The past week unloaded a huge bunch of movie trailers for movie fans, largely due to studios promoting their upcoming slates for theater chains at Las Vegas’ annual CinemaCon. We love writing about trailers here and couldn’t cover them all.

One which appears to have waited until after everybody else was on stage is The Mummy, which debuted its second trailer on Sunday. The first one was notable for Tom Cruise’s strangely high-pitched screaming, a female villain, and a version of the trailer that leaked out with only the voice tracks yet was curiously watchable.

The new trailer provides a bit more backstory, beginning with what looks like Cruise’s latest Mission: Impossible movie. He and his partner (Jake Johnson) are being chased by Middle Eastern bad guys who wield rocket launchers. But maybe those presumed bad guys were protecting something that wasn’t intended to be discovered: a mummy’s tomb. Give the trailer a look:

Is Cruise’s character a thrill-seeking archaeologist, a la Indiana Jones, or a mercenary leading archaeologists (notably the fetching one played by Annabelle Wallis) to that tomb? Whatever his occupation, it sounds like they weren’t supposed to take what was buried in that subterranean “prison,” according to Russell Crowe. (Wouldn’t he be a great bad guy in a Mission: Impossible movie? Are we sure this isn’t a Mission: Impossible movie? OK, the revived Egyptian princess who can call forth sandstorms and command legions of undead is probably a giveaway.)

Did anybody else feel like rooting for the presumed villain in this? The Mummy, otherwise known as Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), was roused from her eternal slumber/imprisonment (albeit after she killed her father) until Cruise and Co. woke her up. Judging from other clips in the trailer, she seems to be tortured — or at the very least, severely mistreated– at several points during her original life and her revival. But Ahmanet gets to swarm Cruise with a bunch of rats, so at least she gets that.

Every time I’ve heard of a Mummy movie, I keep hoping we’ll get something darker and creepier like the original Universal film starring Boris Karloff. Though Universal Pictures probably wants something a bit more exciting than a man preserved in rags lurching after his prey or a revived Egyptian prince pursuing what he believes to be the reincarnated version of his princess. (And that movie probably isn’t as good as the memory of it.) With the revived corpses and sandstorms, this looks a bit too much like the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies of the late 90s-early 2000s. Naturally, the hope is that director Alex Kurtzman has something better here.

But the Mummy being female this time around is an intriguing angle. And we do get to see Tom Cruise get beat up quite a bit, it appears. (And I’m a Cruise fan. This movie still seems like such a strange choice for him.) What is the deal with him dying and then being brought back to life? We have a little bit of mystery here. (OK, she’s probably looking to mate with Tom Cruise. She would not be the first, even if she’s revived after being buried for centuries.)

The Mummy opens in theaters on June 9.

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