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- 2018
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 2018
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Summary Hundreds of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, a mysterious young woman, Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar), emerges as the only one who can stop London — now a giant, predator city on wheels — from devouring everything in its path. Feral, and fiercely driven by the memory of her mother, Hester joins forces with Tom N...
Directed By: Christian Rivers
Written By: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Philip Reeve
- 2018
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 2018
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Mortal Engines
44
6.0
Where to Watch
Summary Hundreds of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, a mysterious young woman, Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar), emerges as the only one who can stop London — now a giant, predator city on wheels — from devouring everything in its path. Feral, and fiercely driven by the memory of her mother, Hester joins forces with Tom N...
Directed By: Christian Rivers
Written By: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Philip Reeve
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
44
15% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
61% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
24% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
44
15% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
61% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
24% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
It’s an overpowering world of steampunk delights, almost Miyazakian in its presentation. It’s hard to complain about a path being well-worn when all the sights will make your eyes pop.
Mortal Engines is an entertaining movie if you don’t ask to many questions of the story and stick to what’s put in front of you onscreen.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 295 User Ratings
6.0
48% Positive
141 Ratings
141 Ratings
34% Mixed
101 Ratings
101 Ratings
18% Negative
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 295 User Ratings
6.0
48% Positive
141 Ratings
141 Ratings
34% Mixed
101 Ratings
101 Ratings
18% Negative
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
This movie is worth the watch! one of the best i have ever watched so far! This is truly a masterpiece and a work of gem. It got me goosebumps all the way through the end. Characters were great everything was just perfect! and now I'm in love with this movie i kept on thinking about it after i watch it! This is truly a 11 out of 10.
Amazing job to the producers and all the staffs! truly magnificent! I'm really hoping to have a sequel on this!
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I can't believe this movie bombed at the theaters, it was really good and the originality of it was on point. People aren't giving original movies a chance anymore. The special effects were outstanding, really good acting and intense action throughout, it's a perfect 10 for me.
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Mortal Engines is visually spectacular, if a bit derivative. It’s a social allegory that goes for broke. And while it’s hardly a groundbreaking movie, it’s still pretty fun.
This is a headache-inducing spectacle that raises more questions than it answers, and does little to inspire viewers to go find the answers themselves. But hey, at least it’s too loud to fall asleep to.
Mortal Engines really is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent slog, as characters leap unfeasibly out of planes on to bits of cities while a squad of rebel-fighter pilots straight out of Star Wars buzz around.
But it looks great, right? Not really. Directed by Christian Rivers, a longtime art director for Jackson, the overall look asks the question, “are you sick of Steampunk yet,” and for me, yeah.
I never would have thought I could get so little amusement out of a film where Hugo Weaving dramatically intones nonsense like “Prepare to ingest!”
Top-tier visual effects and set design. A large amount of resources and creative design went into creating 'London', but sadly this effort doesn't extend too far into the plot and characters.
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Possibly the best visual effects I’ve ever seen wrapped up in a disappointing film. Even better than Avatar (2009) I think. The action is exciting. The technical aspects are immaculate. The first problem that I noticed was the poor introduction to the cities. These things are enormous but the film does not introduce this scale well at all. You see one giant moving city but no scale compared to the trees it is crushing or the people on it and seconds later an even bigger city is introduced but again there’s no build-up or suspense, it’s just big from the start. The characters are annoying and obnoxious, except the main girl. The details of the story are muddled but the overall story is interesting. The parallels of the real world are painfully unsubtle. I very much found myself wanting the bad guys to succeed. Reminiscent of The Matrix (1999) in tone and style but without the memorable characters.
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Started off really well, with some incredibly interesting concepts and a rich back story, and slowly descended into utter anarchy with no discernable logic and events and action, and dialogue that make literally zero sense. There are moments where I felt like I was missing a massive amount of hidden story, there were characters who look at each other or say a line and I feel like there is supposed to be some relationship between them and I'm supposed to know about it. characters make decisions for seemingly no sensible reason, like for example dropping the young girl off in the garden and then flying straight to the weapon that the young girl needed to get to..??? . this asian dissident girl seems to be a big deal and has some heroic death and I have no idea why or who she really is. I really got the sense this must be adapted from some Manga, or a TV series or a really long novel, but the thing is... if you're going to adapt from a larger source material you really need to edit the story so it actually makes sense in a 2 hour film. They did not do a good job with this as it is just a confused mess of garbage. If you can't include a character's backstory in the film, they should not be in the film making a 'meaningful look' before they crash their ship into the big city on wheels. I don't know who that is, and it just makes me feel like I'm not welcome at your party. Awful film that just made me angry.
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Production Company
Media Rights Capital (MRC),
Scholastic Productions,
Silvertongue Films,
WingNut Films,
Perfect World Pictures,
Universal Pictures,
Dentsu,
Fuji Television Network
Release Date Dec 14, 2018
Duration 2 h 8 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Some scars never heal.
Awards
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
AEAF Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
New Zealand Cinematographers Society
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
