Review of Mortal Engines (2018) by Wayne K — 18 Jan 2019

Well I naturally knew by its trailer that the whole idea of driving cities would be a bit ridiculous, but I expected at least some great visual effects. And that is pretty much all this movie offers. These are, in fact, jaw dropping images, but they can't hide the fact, that the whole movie is a big bunch of crap.

Extremely poor conversations lines, horrible actors, and a story which defies any laws of physics, mechanical engineering, etc. that even Archimedes would turn around in his grave by all the illogical bull.

. that they include in this insanely ridiculous story. Though they show a bit of the obvious natural cannibalism and eating slob situation in an post-apocalyptic society, nobody is ever concerned where food actually comes from for those hundreds and thousands of people living on those moving cities.

The only concern seems to be energy and rebuilding a pre-global war weapon like if all knowledge of science would have completely disappeared on one part of science, but still existing for others, and that for hundreds of years.

It is utter nonsense and one needs to completely switch off one's brain to enjoy it at least a tiny bit for the cool imagery. There is really no need to waste one's time and/or money on this heap of senseless insanity (and I, personally do, in fact, like fantasy movies, proven by the fact that only yesterday morning I re-watched Valerian and I enjoyed it from the very beginning to the last minute).

But this Mortal Engines should have never been produced. As I read in the newspaper there were even 2 or 3 follow-up movies planned, but by the bad general reception at the box office, this is hopefully out of the question.

2 1/2 out of 10 points (and that is so high only because of the VR scenery).