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Mortal Engines has no shortage of eye-catching special effects, but lacks enough high-octane narrative fuel to give this futuristic fantasy sufficient cinematic combustion. Read Critics Reviews
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Dec 14, 2018 · Even by the lower standards of kids’ stuff, this movie is laughably portentous and kitschy, and gets progressively worse, what with the heavy-handed introduction of the ethnically diverse rebel flyer team and the Dalai Lama lookalike leader of the Asian territory Thaddeus intends to bulldoze.
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The previous plot summary only really covers the first act of the film – after being exiled, the main character teams up with a stranger with a mysterious past (Hera Hilmar), and they go on a variety of adventures: teaming up with a resistance force, begrudgingly growing to fall for each other, and dealing with Hilmar’s troubled past. While it foll...
While the book Mortal Engines was an exciting and imaginative dystopian thriller (before dystopian meant the bland aesthetic it does now), it worked perfectly as a metaphor for state capitalism. It does, after all, tell the story of giant city states hunting down and recycling smaller settlements – the rulers of large states order their moving econ...
It’s a real pity that Mortal Engines wasted its potential so much, because for the half-hour of the film it far exceeded any other YA film in terms of skilled storytelling and filmmaking. It was even shaping up to be one of the best fantasy films of the year – until the YA cliches got in the way and drained the reserves of personality it had. The c...
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Jun 12, 2018 · Mortal Engines. As visual metaphors for capitalism go, the sight of a towering, mobile London running down and swallowing a smaller town is pretty compelling. The stripped world of Mortal...
Mortal Engines is a lifeless fantasy epic that is mildly enjoyable at times, but suffers from several grave afflictions that ultimately incur steep viewing consequences. Full Review | Jan 29,...
Mortal Engines is a 2018 post-apocalyptic steampunk film directed by Christian Rivers from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Philip Reeve.
Dec 5, 2018 · “Mortal Engines” might not be a particularly good movie, but it’s a BIG one, and sometimes that can be even more important. Adapted (on steroids) from Philip Reeves’ neo-Victorian ...
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