Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines

Have you ever had a film that you saw the add for and thought I don't know if I want to watch it but the director and people involved in it's development are good so this might be a good film? We'll for me that is what Mortal Engines is and let's be honest coming off the back of The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings CGI was pushed to all new levels and opened the door for a heap of new awesome possibilities.

Unfortunately that doesn't always transition to the actual feature film on offer and despite it having good backing, the film didn't particularly appeal to me.

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So What's it about?
Mortal Engines is a post apocalyptic world set 1000 years after 2018 where a sixty minute war destroyed the world as we knew it and a new continent was formed. From the rubble people built ginormous cities on wheels and it was survival of the fittest as cities destroyed each other.

The thing with post apocalyptic world themes is that they provide the writer with all kinds of freedom and if we're going to be honest based on past human experiences. Being brought on by a war is probably going to be a reality at some point.

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In Mortal Engines that weapon is a relic of the past that is some form of fusion canon which one of the cities manages to rebuild and then tried to take on the East to conquer more of the new world.

Unlike the west? I am not sure if that's what it is but it appears to be that way. The east still remains in static homes surrounding a wall which is undestroyable until of course Medusa is built and it pretty much gets destroyed. Some heroes save the day rah rah rah.

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Lucky I didn't pay money to see it

I only know the story line because after a number of years it was finally screened on T.V and I watched it with the kids who didn't seem to mind it. Which already indicates to me that it is a crap film.

The thing with apocalyptic films is that they have an endless infinity of what you can dream up but within limits. Things to do with space, really good they have always been good films because they push our imagination and get us thinking.

Wastelands, Zombies even ape take overs all great things but where Mortal Engines fail is that it is completely unrealistic (I know right, planet of the Apes) But hear me out.

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So hear me out, we're 1000 years into the future where it is possible to bring people back to life as Zombie/Cyborgs and even the Cyborgs can make more Cyborgs. We've still got planes also yet we don't have space travel.

The biggest unrealistic crunch is the fact we now have fully mobile cities and that is apparently how everyone now lives. So the first question to sustain this idea is that there must be something wrong with the ground? Well, no there doesn't appear to be there may have been in the past but people survived and allegedly all the advanced tech from the past was lost in the 60 minute war and because of that people do not have knowledge anymore.

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Except for the fact that we can turn humans into immortal cyborgs which is something we can't do now but a less civilized future can. It can also solve all the issues around physics and build moving countries without an issue.

Oh and we can also have floating cities and cities on the sea.

This is kind of the reason why the film flopped and although I am sure the book was good the film just did not connect with audiences in a logical manner.

The film could have been saved if it had a great plot but unfortunately it didn't even have that. As it starts someones mum got killed and the kid was after revenge. Then half way through we learn it was due to a weapon and being thousands of years later I have no idea how this is the first time the weapon has been located.

Then we meet some agents who had been searching for our main character because the mum said look after her and she was the key to saving the world. This plot made no sense as the mum was killed instantly and it all happened off screen.

Without boring you with more irrelevant information the film was a flop because it could never even get off the ground with a proper story.

Have you Seen Mortal Engines? how did you find it?