Mortal Engines

2018

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 48% · 189 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 151440 151.4K

based on novel or book dystopia post-apocalyptic future revenge wasteland steampunk

Plot summary

Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

Director

Christian Rivers Photo
Christian Rivers

Top cast

Frankie Adams Photo
Frankie Adams as Yasmina Rashid
Rege-Jean Page Photo
Rege-Jean Page as Captain Khora
Stephen Lang Photo
Stephen Lang as Shrike
Mark Mitchinson Photo
Mark Mitchinson as Vambrace
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TxMike

Far dystopian future, cities are on the move!

I enjoyed this movie mostly for the novel concept. Something really upsetting has happened to the Earth, there is some mention of a 60-minute war, perhaps nuclear. Now, at least 1000 years into the future, or as one character says, 1700 years after the big destruction, cities large and small are on very, very large traction devices, they travel the landscape and gobble up smaller cities for the food and supplies. The featured city is London with its many levels, the lowest for grunt work and the highest for the elite.So the hook here isn't unlike many other fantasy movies, there is always one powerful man who wants to be all-powerful. And there are one or two ordinary people who need to stop him. Here it is a female and a male, 30-ish young adults.The movie is loaded with action, especially the last third or so. It is entertaining as a futuristic action flick, I suppose one could draw parables about the human condition and caring for each other. I watched it on BluRay from my public library, my wife skipped.The disc has a number of very interesting extras showing how they built the sets and made certain parts of the movie.
Reviewed by dr_lager 7 / 10

Exactly what you would expect

I was quite satisfied with this movie. I do wish I had seen it with my 12 year old son because I'm fairly sure he'd have enjoyed it too. Why? Because the whole story, plotline, characterization, basic concepts, love interest, action, bad guy - the whole shebang - is so clearly directed at "young adults" that anyone of my ancient age trying to judge it on the basis of those elements is going to be asking too much of it. But kids, and anyone who likes dystopian science fantasy action films will do too. And there's a good amount of humor in it too.This was a hugely enjoyable piece of nonsense. I mean, the whole city of London on treadmills, eating up little German villages? With a hunt for a massive weapon of mass destruction? And imitation Twinkie bars that have lasted a thousand years?Non-stop action, check. Tolerable dialogue, check. No uncomfortable love scenes that will make teens and preteens embarrassed, check. Obviously bad, bad guy, check. Great CGI, check. Did I mention the pretty much non-stop action?The characters are pretty two dimensional, but sympathetic enough. The concept is fun to watch - steampunk does Star Wars. As dystopian visions of the world it goes pretty well, and I don't mind seeing my home town as the collective bad guys. I mean, come on, when isn't the bad guy from Britain?It's not Blade Runner, but it's not Valerian either. I'll watch it again, but next time with my son.
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