Hera Hilmar

Robert Sheehan

Hugo Weaving

Jihae

Ronan Raftery

Leila George

Patrick Malahide

Stephen Lang

Colin Salmon

Mark Mitchinson

Regé-Jean Page

Menik Gooneratne

Frankie Adams

Leifur Sigurdarson

Kahn West

Andrew Lees

Sophie Cox

Kee Chan

Sarah Peirse

Mark Hadlow

Caren Pistorius

Poppy Macleod

Joel Tobeck

Terry Norris

Calum Gittins

Megan Edwards

Peter Rowley

Aaron Jackson

Stephen Ure

Nathaniel Lees

Paul Yates

Nick Blake

Beatrice Joblin

Thomas Lahood

Simbarashe Matshe

Lee Tuson

Jason Whyte

Michael Homick

Royden Davys

Richard Mills

Shane Rangi

Yoson An

Nicholas Quirke

Lynda Lester

Rick Baker

Katie Jackson

Billy Jackson

Carter Nixon

Philip Reeve

Sam Reeve

Martin Kwok

Seth F. Miller

Rodney Cook

Stephen Grey

Peter Jackson

David Brown

Glenn Boswell

Harry Ashby

Emma Cross

Carolynne Cunningham

Ant Davies

Bruno Du Bois

Simon English

Tatiana Ragsdale

Laurie Wright

Dan Best

Clare Burlinson

Caleb Corlett

Jess Jansen

Rebecca Rowe

Erin Woolhouse

Mathew Gordon

Morag Atchinson

Jonathan Beard

Steve Gallagher

Conrad Pope

Catherine Wilson

Clare Cunningham

Victoria Beynon-Cole

Rachel Bullock

Maxwell Grant

Florence Izen-Taylor

Lucy McLaughlin

James Takarangi-Berry

Patricia Barker

Libby Dempster

Carolyn M. Fenton

Hannah Goldblatt

Sarah Goodhue

Sally Gray

Cilla Leckie

Emily Ireland

Hannah McKay

Katherine Milne

Will Parsons

Evelyn Santana Paz

Hannah Sutherland

Josiene van Maarseveen

Jared Connon

Pietro Gallo

Teodora Ilie

Paul Stieglbauer

Zane Weiner

Philippa Boyens

David Conley

Tom Holkenborg

Ken McGaugh

Luke Millar

Kevin Andrew Smith

Carlos Ramírez Laloli

Pam Silverstein

Nancy Hennah

Robert Stadd

Brent Burge

Jason Canovas

Michael Hedges

Christopher Boyes

Yoshinao Aonuma

Paul Franklin

Riley Phillips-Harris

Pokoho Van Gyen-Heri

Daniel Andrews

Matthew Arbuckle

Shane Blakey

Ryan Carey

Jordan Carlton

Justin B. Carter

Kawhia Chambers

Mervyn Church

Paddy Church

Tanya Drewery

David Drummond

Aron Eastwood

Clint Elvy

Poppy Fill

Bodie Fitzpatrick

Winham Hammond

Luke Hanna

Allan Henry

Jeremy Hollis

Jace Lee

Gentiane Lupi

Tori Marsh

Jonny McBride

Tim McLachlan

Rory McTavish

Jared Meehan

David J. Muzzerall

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Science Fiction

Mortal Engines

Scholastic Productions

Silvertongue Films

Universal Pictures

WingNut Films

New Zealand

United States of America

English

based on novel or book

dystopia

post-apocalyptic future

revenge

wasteland

steampunk

futuristic vehicle

based on young adult novel

Gimly

Shocking nobody, _Mortal Engines_ was not very good. Trying to jam way too much into two hours than is reasonable, it instead delivers on zero things. I guess I was **kind of** interested in the character of Shrike, but that was really the whole of my positive experience with _Mortal Engines_. Maybe if this thing had come out about eight years ago in the **height** of the bizarre Steam Punk obsession that gripped the globe (even if it was a weird sort of obsession where everybody called everything they like, and themselves Steam Punk but it really wasn't required to have any relation to actual Steam Punk) then the movie could have at least done well financially, but there's no world wherein this version of _Mortal Engines_ is a consumate film.

_Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

Good attempt.  Different, unique, and the sets are great.  Yeah, it has some weak points, and some of the writing/editing could have been better.  But this is a refreshing  change in the usual sci-fi stuff that has been coming out. Marvel and DC are flooding the market with their super heroes (not all bad, just too much) I detest all these vampire/werewolf/zombie crap (all of it) This is a nice change, and I enjoyed it! 
I did not know what to expect when I started to watch this, but I was pleasantly surprised. Ignore the negative reviews. Those are probably written by zombies/vampires/werewolves....

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I have to say that I liked this movie a lot. It is kind of fantasy, science fiction (emphasis on fiction here) and steam punk (or perhaps I should say diesel punk) mixed together.

The world is a fairly dark post apocalyptic world where moving predator cities prays on each other. The entire concept is really quite ridiculous of course but it makes for some really fantastic and spectacular special effects and I am a sucker for spectacular special effects.

In addition the overall story holds together fairly well. That is, in the context of the ludicrous world that is the background of this story in the first place of course. It is quite straightforward without too much annoying social or green preaching that plagues so many movies nowadays. Somewhat predictable but overall a good vehicle for the plentiful action.

I also liked most of the characters. Both the bad guy and the good guys had decent charisma with the exception of Tom who was a bit of a naive whiner although he got it together towards the end.

There where  few flaws. Nothing really major except that, in one scene at the end, the city of London was shown against the wall and it was bloody tiny compared to the wall. The main bad guy’s last resort was to pummel London against the wall and was expected to break it down. Before in the movie London was depicted as really huge. That scene really screwed that and made him delusional.

Apart from that, end Tom’s whining and naivety, I really liked this movie. It was the kind of over the top, fantasy/fiction movie with a big budget that you do not see every day. Of course the dickwads, a.ka “critics”) at Rotten Tomatoes and other mainstream media assholes did their best to tell everyone how bad it was. As usual that’s just the stuff that comes out of the south end of a north bound bull.

CinemaSerf

From the team that brought us everything from Middle Earth comes this great to look at, but highly derivative fantasy adventure that regurgitates a hybrid of stories and spits them out pretty unremarkably. To be fair, there is charisma between the two leads - both attractive, young, and ballsy - Hera Hilmar ("Hester)' and Robert Sheehan ("Tom") as they try to thwart the maniacal ambitions of "Thaddeus Valentine" (a suitably dramatic, "Elrond" like, Hugo Weaving) who is charged with providing an uninterruptible power source for the marauding mechanical city of London. The visual effects are super, as you might expect, and the score certainly has something of the Howard Shore about it, but the relentlessness of the out of the frying pan into the fire scenarios against impossible odds just recycle themselves once too often and the ending, though impressive to appreciate creatively, has all the jeopardy of night following day. Money has clearly been spent on this, but not on the script nor the plot. It's fine, but nothing more...

Mortal Engines( 2018)

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Written by Gimly on Sun Feb 03 2019

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