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By Christopher Lloyd (287) for The Film Yap (559) on 12 Dec 2018

A hot mess of a movie, but largely an enjoyable one. Even the the writing team from LOTR can't rescue the laughable fantasy/sci-fi dialogue…

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By Rafael Motamayor (108) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 12 Dec 2018

This steampunk epic, which often feels like an over-sized Fury Road on steroids, has great world-building but an underwhelming story…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 12 Dec 2018

While Mortal Engines may be ambitious in scope, it doesn't quite translate on film…

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By Jonathan Roberts (30) for The New Paper (Singapore) (342) on 11 Dec 2018

While the visuals are stunning, they aren't enough to stop you from checking your watch…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 11 Dec 2018

Frankly, it's difficult to work out whether this story has anything to say to us aside from the dangers of megalomania…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 11 Dec 2018

Like all good YA fantasy, it’s rooted in earnest adolescent anxieties, and dresses them up with the same level of earnestness…

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By J. Don Birnam (36) for Splash Report (34) on 10 Dec 2018

A dystopian film that invites you to ask: How could humanity screw it all up so badly…

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By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 10 Dec 2018

Somewhere in all of the thrilling spectacle, the storytelling and characterisation have been pushed to one side…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 10 Dec 2018

The film's seriousness is undermined by the sheer daftness of this concept...but there's no denying the skill and splendour with which the…

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By Shaun Munro (472) for Flickering Myth (680) on 10 Dec 2018

Visually stunning yet thunderously dull, Mortal Engines squanders its Mad Max-for-teens hook with an over-serving of generic YA slop…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 10 Dec 2018

The film's seen-it-all-before-ness goes to the final wire…

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By Matt Hudson (148) for What I Watched Tonight (148) on 09 Dec 2018

Alas, Mortal Engines is not as crazy as it thinks it is, nor as deep as it wants to be - and it's certainly not a good movie…

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By Amy West (93) for SciFiNow (378) on 07 Dec 2018

It's just a shame its messy pacing and clunky, predictable story are so hard to stomach…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Time Out (7,510) on 07 Dec 2018

Mortal Engines really is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent slog, as characters leap unfeasibly out of planes on to bits of cities while…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for Hero Collector (7) on 07 Dec 2018

A thrilling, original and beautifully designed steampunk fantasy adventure that does justice to the source material…

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By Rohan Naahar (197) for Hindustan Times (753) on 07 Dec 2018

It's like Snowpiercer for kids - set inside a closed society that acts as a microcosm of our world, and its people…

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By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 06 Dec 2018

It rips a few too many pages from familiar playbooks, but when it indulges in its own weirdness this film casts off those heavy caterpillar…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Dec 2018

Although the craft is coupled with a scenario featuring ample initial intrigue, the New Zealand-shot film remains frustratingly generic…

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By Ben Sin (27) for South China Morning Post (665) on 06 Dec 2018

Visuals aside, Mortal Engines is mediocre through and through…

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By Rashid Irani (192) for Hindustan Times (753) on 06 Dec 2018

A wildly imaginative concept, flawlessly executed, with special effects that will take your breath away…

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