2018 Directed by Christian Rivers
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.
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Mortal Engines: Krieg der Städte, Máquinas Mortais
“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 —…
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.
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.
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...
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?
So this one was a massive give and take for me, but my overall feelings are honestly more on the positive than the negative. It's a film that does certain things so damn well that you can tell that if the worse aspects of the film had been improved on then this could've been a genuine classic. For what it is though, it's honestly some flawed but ambitious fun.
The best thing and the true star of the film is the setting, which is consistently awesome even if some things don't make sense. The moving city of London feels like it's ripped straight from video games like Bioshock and DisHonored - which by the by is totally my shit -…
exactly the kind of inarticulate nonsense I gobble up. what a blast. it had all my favorite lines like:
- “you saved our lives... why?”
- “don’t do [tk] till I give you the signal” / “how will I know the signal?” / “trust me, you’ll know”
- “shrike”
I can't believe Peter Jackson convinced Universal to spend 100 million dollars on a live action remake of ROBOTS
Coulda used more hungry Transformer-cities imho!
This is pop-culture remix on overdrive, almost literally “what if LORD OF THE RINGS were a STAR WARS prequel set in the world of MAD MAX guest starring THE TERMINATOR?” and I definitely kind of love that about it. It skews really close to feeling like live-action anime (but maybe that’s just because I’ve been watching a lot of anime lately) and It just kind of works for me on that level. But it’s also got that problem that I personally find with a lot of YA adaptations where everything just kind of feels generic. The look and feel of the world and costumes feel like just that - costumes - as opposed to…
"wow this looks like a shitty movie to drown out my neighbor's annoying kids while I work"
and surprise it was.
I don't know what is with the low ratings. The movie was entertaining and it has great CGI what else do you need.
Un grand déploiement, des décors exquis, un univers admirable, mais on regarde le tout défiler à l'écran sans y être concerné, l'univers s'auto-détruisant. Ça reste un divertissement joli, mais peu entraînant.
This movie has a great opening but then proceeds to follow every single action/adventure movie cliche there is. My friends and i saw it in an empty theater and we were yelling at the screen the whole time bc of how goofy it is. Fun times, but alas, a forgettable movie
I must say that Mortal Engines is visually stunning, CGI is off the charts spectacular from a technical point of view, and the acting left a lot to be desired. The steampunk, victorian, dystopian future theme was aimed at imagination for kids and younger people in terms of low rated violence but can easily be enjoyed by fully grown adults with imagination. The concept of old fashioned/futurisitc cities on wheels was a great concept and I just like it because it made a change from watching superhero movies 24/7. I feel the movie was lacking in some aspects but it wasn't boring it was in fact exceptinally imaginative with the art and ideas thrown into it.
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