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By Steve Katz (19) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 13 Dec 2018

The visuals of Mortal Engines are undeniably impressive, but they barely cover the tremendous shortcomings of the script…

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By Tom Bedford (8) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 13 Dec 2018

As soon as its characters hit the ground of the second act, it devolves rapidly into a generic YA story with bland characters, poorly set up…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 13 Dec 2018

What makes it fascinating even for those unfamiliar with the source material (like this reviewer) is its stunning visual design…

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By Dan Murrell (30) for Screen Junkies (147) on 13 Dec 2018

While Mortal Engines offers a lot in the way of action and adventure, it doesn't really offer much in the way of character or plot, or really…

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By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Adelaide Review (243) on 13 Dec 2018

Despite some likeable young leads, much of this effects-heavy filming of Philip Reeve's young adult novel is dreary, pretentious nonsense…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denerstein Unleashed (254) on 13 Dec 2018

Oh well, Mortal Engines doesn't generate disdain -- at least it didn't in me -- but it's difficult to avoid thinking that not enough has been…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Dec 2018

The story is bloated and, despite flashes of imagination, overly familiar. And the dialogue, peppered with well-worn catchphrases…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 13 Dec 2018

Mortal Engines marshals billions of pixels and barely an iota of inspiration…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 13 Dec 2018

There is almost no character development, the dialogue is stilted and the story itself is rather absurd…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 13 Dec 2018

Mortal Engines provides the look of a unique and striking world, but in failing to go deeper than that, it doesn't give us a convincing one…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Dec 2018

All the dazzling CGI work is in the service of a story that is, to put it charitably, ludicrous, and characters that are little better than…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 13 Dec 2018

Mortal Engines hasn’t much in the way of originality, other than its rolling city, to distinguish it from other, better post-apocalyptic tales…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 13 Dec 2018

As with any number of popular YA novels-turned-feature films, Mortal Engines has a wealth of possibilities and curious ideas at its disposal…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 13 Dec 2018

Mortal Engines is visually spectacular, if a bit derivative. It’s a social allegory that goes for broke…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for The Movie Cricket (81) on 13 Dec 2018

Mortal Engines rises and falls - mostly rises - on Weaving's cunning…

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By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 13 Dec 2018

Mortal Engines is that lump of coal in your holiday movie stocking…

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By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 13 Dec 2018

I would call Mortal Engines the most stupefyingly wrongheaded post-apocalyptic movie since Kevin Costner's The Postman but I fear its unrelenting…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 13 Dec 2018

Like the book it's based on, the worldbuilding is intriguing, but the characters and story are strictly cliché…

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By Jonathan W. Hickman (551) for Daily Film Fix (355) on 13 Dec 2018

Wildly overbuilt, emotionally overwrought, a film that sacrifices genuine pathos for action, Mortal Engines is an inevitable one-off stab at…

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By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 13 Dec 2018

Ultimately, Mortal Engines is the kind of non-summer blockbuster that seems destined to find a few ardent defenders…

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