Mortal Engines 2018

影评 (16)

1. D

   David Sims 2026年8月25日

   I LIKE SHRIKE

   594 8
2. M

   matt lynch 2026年8月25日

   I’m still a little fuzzy on why the apocalypse meant the cities had to be on wheels but also please don’t bother explaining it to me if you know. Anyway with its goofass steampunk tech and airships and tragic robot men and dynastic tale of revenge and elaborate backstory and on and on, this reminded me more than anything else of classic Final Fantasy, except the painstaking and incremental progress of both the characters’ journeys and the narrative itself is crammed into a hectic, convoluted two hours instead of playing out over hours a day for weeks. Personally I prefer something this unabashedly dorky to really swing for it, be little more virtuosic, so I’ll be over here rewatching JUPITER ASCENDING.

   339 4
3. B

   BeHaind 2026年8月25日

   Tatsächlich deutlich besser als die grausigen Trailer erwarten ließen. Sehr fantasievolles Produktionsdesign, schön gefilmte Action, tolle Panoramen und Setpieces machen eine wirklich spaßige erste Filmhälfte aus. Die unzähligen Klischees, blassen Figuren und das penetrant-aufdringliche Foreshadowing fallen da kaum ins Gewicht. Leider schwächelt der hintere Part dann zunehmend. Der Ideenraub im übrigen Blockbuster-Oeuvre wird dann überdeutlich, die Handlung kommt zum erliegen, weil alles nur noch überlanger Showdown ist und am Ende will der Film dann einfach nicht enden. Für eine Buchvorlage hat das hier alles relativ wenig Fleisch auf den Rippen – die Welt von „Mortal Engines“ scheint durchaus reichhaltig zu sein, viel zu sehen bekommt man aber nicht. Dafür bekommt die simple Rachestory einfach zu viel Raum. Aber immerhin – Potential für Fortsetzungen wäre da, wenn das hier an der Kinokasse funktioniert…wovon ich nicht ausgehe…

   204 2
4. M

   megan 2026年8月25日

   loses a star for every time i thought about minions

   233 1
5. P

   Patrick Willems 2026年8月25日

   I’m into traction cities now

   596 12
6. M

   mich 2026年8月25日

   No one’s gonna believe me but there were actual fucken Minions in this movie

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7. D

   davidehrlich 2026年8月25日

   “Mortal Engines” might not be a particularly good movie, but it’s a BIG one, and sometimes that can be even more important. Adapted (on steroids) from Philip Reeves’ neo-Victorian steampunk fantasy of the same name, this $100 million holiday-season event starts off like a supersized remake of “Fury Road,” as two mobile cities shoot massive harpoons at each other in a death race through the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Europe as Junkie XL’s bombastic score yowls in the background. Yes, mobile cities. One of them is London, and the other is a quaint mining colony that doesn’t have a name worth remembering; they travel on giant turrets, stretch a mile into the sky, and mulch each other for fuel. This —…

   532 15
8. W

   Will 2026年8月25日

   Howls Moving Castle but with big wheels

   441 3
9. J

   Josh Lewis 2026年8月25日

   Steampunk Star Wars, YA Mad Max, Brexit Lord of the Rings. A bit too much going on here honestly; doesn’t really have enough time to provide the insanely ambitious production design/vfx here with anything beyond typical, expository narrative and competent, anonymous action. Still, pretty bonkers, frequently beautiful design work. Pouring one out for my homie Shrike. Concept art coffee table book when?

   306 5
10. M

    Matt Singer 2026年8月25日

    I was so bored during this movie I spent most of the last act trying to figure out the last movie that was this big that was also this bad. The answer I settled on was Battlefield Earth. Full review at ScreenCrush.

    280 18
11. F

    fran hoepfner 2026年8月25日

    exactly the kind of inarticulate nonsense I gobble up

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12. K

    karen h. 2026年8月25日

    shrike: we stan a legend

    407 3
13. C

    CinemaSerf 2024年4月26日

    From the team that brought us everything from Middle Earth comes this great to look at, but highly derivative fantasy adventure that regurgitates a hybrid of stories and spits them out pretty unremarkably. To be fair, there is charisma between the two leads – both attractive, young, and ballsy – Hera Hilmar (“Hester)’ and Robert Sheehan (“Tom”) as they try to thwart the maniacal ambitions of “Thaddeus Valentine” (a suitably dramatic, “Elrond” like, Hugo Weaving) who is charged with providing an uninterruptible power source for the marauding mechanical city of London. The visual effects are super, as you might expect, and the score certainly has something of the Howard Shore about it, but the relentlessness of the out of the frying pan into the fire scenarios against impossible odds just recycle themselves once too often and the ending, though impressive to appreciate creatively, has all the jeopardy of night following day. Money has clearly been spent on this, but not on the script nor the plot. It’s fine, but nothing more…

14. D

    Dark Jedi 2019年4月19日

    I have to say that I liked this movie a lot. It is kind of fantasy, science fiction (emphasis on fiction here) and steam punk (or perhaps I should say diesel punk) mixed together.

    The world is a fairly dark post apocalyptic world where moving predator cities prays on each other. The entire concept is really quite ridiculous of course but it makes for some really fantastic and spectacular special effects and I am a sucker for spectacular special effects.

    In addition the overall story holds together fairly well. That is, in the context of the ludicrous world that is the background of this story in the first place of course. It is quite straightforward without too much annoying social or green preaching that plagues so many movies nowadays. Somewhat predictable but overall a good vehicle for the plentiful action.

    I also liked most of the characters. Both the bad guy and the good guys had decent charisma with the exception of Tom who was a bit of a naive whiner although he got it together towards the end.

    There where few flaws. Nothing really major except that, in one scene at the end, the city of London was shown against the wall and it was bloody tiny compared to the wall. The main bad guy’s last resort was to pummel London against the wall and was expected to break it down. Before in the movie London was depicted as really huge. That scene really screwed that and made him delusional.

    Apart from that, end Tom’s whining and naivety, I really liked this movie. It was the kind of over the top, fantasy/fiction movie with a big budget that you do not see every day. Of course the dickwads, a.ka “critics”) at Rotten Tomatoes and other mainstream media assholes did their best to tell everyone how bad it was. As usual that’s just the stuff that comes out of the south end of a north bound bull.

15. T

    TalisBriedis 2019年4月11日

    Good attempt. Different, unique, and the sets are great. Yeah, it has some weak points, and some of the writing/editing could have been better. But this is a refreshing change in the usual sci-fi stuff that has been coming out. Marvel and DC are flooding the market with their super heroes (not all bad, just too much) I detest all these vampire/werewolf/zombie crap (all of it) This is a nice change, and I enjoyed it!
    I did not know what to expect when I started to watch this, but I was pleasantly surprised. Ignore the negative reviews. Those are probably written by zombies/vampires/werewolves….

16. G

    Gimly 2019年2月3日

    Shocking nobody, _Mortal Engines_ was not very good. Trying to jam way too much into two hours than is reasonable, it instead delivers on zero things. I guess I was **kind of** interested in the character of Shrike, but that was really the whole of my positive experience with _Mortal Engines_. Maybe if this thing had come out about eight years ago in the **height** of the bizarre Steam Punk obsession that gripped the globe (even if it was a weird sort of obsession where everybody called everything they like, and themselves Steam Punk but it really wasn’t required to have any relation to actual Steam Punk) then the movie could have at least done well financially, but there’s no world wherein this version of _Mortal Engines_ is a consumate film.

    _Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._