I saw it. That’s the cities on wheels one right? Found it forgettable. I hear book lovers said it missed some of the key points.

I LOVE mortal engines. Say it at the cinema and fell in love with the world.

When I saw it i posted on here about how it would be perfect for a open world, survival, city builder video game.

I loved the books and we were waiting for a film for decades, but this just didn't do it justice. The set pieces were great and the art style was on the right track, they just changed too much of the plot for it to be enjoyable for someone who read the books beforehand (they also made it nigh-impossible to follow up with the sequels, but that's another matter).

The only truly enjoyable part was the first 5-10 minutes of London chasing the tiny Bavarian town.

Wasn’t that the movie where they hired a good looking actress and added a little makeup and everyone in the movie acted like this good looking person was hideous?

City go brrr

Visually it was interesting, and there was definitely something original and different about it.. but the plot itself felt thin, dragged on, and maybe miscast? I dunno, didn't resonate with me and felt like 2 movies worth of story edited into 1 (and poorly edited).

I think it's a fantastic film, a shame more people didn't go see it.

Loved the books. Movie was ok.

I might liked it more if I hadn't read the novel, so I couldn't stop nitpicking all the confusing changes. Like Hester Shaw was a different person, Shrike got more to do and the finale wasn't remotely similair, instead it was a blatant rip-off from Star Wars with the turrets and flying inside the London to attack it's weakpoint.

Very cool concept and designs and I was so hyped for its theater release. The movie felt joyless though. That kind of setting should have been so fun, but it was just "this character meets this character, then they do a thing and meet these other characters. The end."

I actually loved it, sad there won't be any follow up movies, I've just always loved steampunk themed movies, games and animes and this one reminded me so much of one of all time favorite games growing up

Definitely a cool premise and world building I’d have liked to see expanded

The robot guy subplot made no sense at all - everyone said that he's a cold, unfeeling machine; yet he's the most emotional character of them all, all the time angry and yelling and screaming. Many good ideas there and nicely designed, but overall, eh, it didn't pull me in, everything felt too scripted.

Interesting setting and world building but a pretty forgettable film. Saw it when it was in theaters and outside of the first city chase, I can't recall a single thing that happened.

It’s a fun movie that requires a lot of “Suspension of Belief”, just buy into the premise and you’ll have a good time. Start nitpicking the science behind it, you won’t like it.

I liked the movie... was hoping for a part 2 but not sure that's gonna happen.

Very forgettable.

Insane the trailers saying it was from so and so from lord of the rings and was like dope, this looks tight.

Then I totally forgot about it and it randomly popped up on my streaming site a while later and I finally checked it out.

I usually have a pretty good memory even for things I don't care about, but I can barely remember anything from this movie. I don't even really remember the central plot struggle.

So I'd say this movie was a 4-5/10 for me. It wasn't glaringly bad which would put it lower. I didn't hate it while it was on. But at the same time there was no takeaway from it. Nothing from that movie stayed with me after.

I read the books after seeing the movie, and they also fizzle out. The first one is really solid, great world-building, characters are a little derivative but fine, it’s YA. But then the subsequent ones (4 in total) get hopelessly tropey.

There's a good story hiding in there. Sadly, they chose to do the shitty YA post apoc one. the robot sub plot was more interesting.

It was visually great, and I really liked the first half. I felt that it missed something in the second half, and I think it was the screen time of Shrike. I wish the story was more about the relationship with him than the actual war.

I think I saw it. That should tell you everything you need to know.

I thought I was going to see big cities fight each other. Instead I vaguely remember some assault on a giant unmoving wall and a weird murder plot within the London machine. Thumbs down.

I saw it in the theater and was impressed by the CGI and world building but felt the story was a bit lacking -- especially the forced love story.

The premise sounded interesting but the execution on screen made it look goofy. Like cringeworthy goofy.

I completely forgot about that movie. Seen it on release, remember having fun with it.

As with most of these movies, I'd rather see what came before than the post-apocalyptic events. Reading into it, there was some kind of large scale wars between cities in the past. Instead, we watch a few people run around in a barren wasteland.

It was Valerian with better actors whom had even less box office appeal. At least Dane had a SpiderMan!

Once I heard the premise--giant megacities on wheels, attacking each other--I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard.

Boring

Yeah it was terrible.

GARBAGE

> Do you think it’s an underrated gem or a piece of crap that was judged fairly upon its release?

It was and is a steaming pile of hot garbage and I struggled to finish it. It was judged fairly.

> Mortal Engines (2018) is a movie that came and went that I feel like nobody went and saw.

That would be because no one did go see it.

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