2018 · adventure · sci-fi · revenge
Mortal Engines
Directed by Christian Rivers2h 8m2018
Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.
Our read: Mortal Engines (2018) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive adventure · sci-fi · revenge entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured adventure / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- epic-stakes
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Skip it tonight — You need coherent worldbuilding; this spectacle often outruns its story.
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