Saturday 12 October 2019

I just don't understand


Mortal Engines (2018)

Directed by Christian Rivers this film based on the book of the same name stars Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving and Jihae. In the post apocalyptic future cities drive round consuming other cities.

For my taste this film spent far too long ripping off familiar story elements from other franchises and too little time on the characters or explaining the world. In the end I never really understood why people drove around in huge cities after all. Not a bad watch but a pretty bland effort really, even the action sequences have the hallmark of a director/editor that does not know how to hold a shot or show the geography of a sequence.

2/5

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