Review of Mortal Engines (2018) by Jokohama — 16 Dec 2018

This movie has cool steampunk vibe, stunning visual, b-rated story and NPC-like characters.

This review of Mortal Engines (2018) was written by Jokohama on 16 Dec 2018.

Mortal Engines has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Emreguner (10) on 17 Feb 2021

Steampunk atmosphere, quality CGI, a lot of logic errors, an ordinary script…

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By Jes1310 (53) on 02 Jun 2020

Watched ME with my daughters aged 13 and this is our combined review. We were both underwhelmed as a whole…

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By Beatrixkiddo (29) on 16 Sep 2019

I have never seen this actress before, she was very good in the lead role, the visual effects were good but the story was flat, it lacked on…

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By Tomtag (45) on 13 Apr 2019

This movie had great special effects and kept the scenes as paradise for viewers, even though the story isn't that good…

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By Eludiumq36 (207) on 26 Oct 2019

Mortal Engines is an entirely watchable film, it's a good cohesive plot with a villain AND an anti-villain along with some amazing large-scale…

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By Palpetinesheev (49) on 20 Mar 2020

It's another gorgeous looking, but thoroughly mediocre film. It joins the likes of Valerian in that regard…

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By Thefrog (13) on 31 Aug 2020

I loved this movie in terms of environment: its production values are through the roof and the steampunk aesthetics are all but perfect…

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By Beerad (1) on 07 Mar 2020

It had potential. But imagine if all three lotr were packed into one 2 hour film. You wouldn’t care about the characters…

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By Damicosta02 (2) on 01 Apr 2020

An original and interesting storyline, although it seems too hurried in my opinion. There are also moments which are kinda out of the right place…

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By Tremault (28) on 06 Jun 2020

Started off really well, with some incredibly interesting concepts and a rich back story, and slowly descended into utter anarchy with no discernable…

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