India, April 14 -- It borders on the absurd to make a movie called The Mummy (ok, Lee Cronin's The Mummy, to be precise) in the year 2026 and to deny its audience the experience that they expect. There are no dashing archeologists (that we know of) and there is also none of that charming repartee between young lovers set against the backdrop of ancient Egyptian ruins. Instead, it appears as though Lee Cronin has dragged the franchise name into an environment that is harsher and crueller. Here's how The Mummy by Lee Cronin is something of a departure for The Mummy franchise.

That, in essence, is the risk involved. The Mummy isn't a figure or a monster in this movie. It's a memory, an allusion to a very particular brand of entertainment ex...