The Mummy This ludicrously overplotted and underconceived horror thriller, directed by Alex Kurtzman, also squanders a fine cast, headed by Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella.Cruise plays Nick Morton, an antiquities hunter working with the U.S. Army in iraq, who accidentally exhumes the five-thousand- year-old mummy of the Egyptian Princess Ahmanet (Boutella), a murderer possessed by a curse.Mean- while, a London Underground excavation uncovers a medieval vault filled with Crusade plunder-including the gem that gave Ahmanet her evil powers-and she comes back to life, with devastating results, to recover it. Along the way, she tries to possess Nick, who's in love with the archeologist Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis), and gory violence ensues. There's also a Jekyll-and-Hyde story featuring Russell Crowe, storms of crows and swarms of rats and spiders, live embalming, face-eating, and urban apocalypse; the over-all effect is that of a grab bag of supernatural shock tropes thrown toge...