"For a little while."
Finally brought to the screen by the Peter Jackson squad, Mortal Engines delivers on the book's completely barmy premise by bringing giant moving cities to the big screen convincingly. The visual scale and ambition of effects in this movie are colossal, extraordinary and hugely impressive, to the extent that in IMAX 3D they are quite overwhelming, with the thunderous score and noisy soundscape almost ear-shattering. Whilst the story is fairly robust, the characters inevitably take a back seat to the FX, and for such an imaginative concept there are plenty of filmic nods to genre greats old (Frankenstein, Metropolis) and new (The Terminator, Independence Day and especially the fable staples of characters and the final act of A New Hope). This is a film for which you can admire the spectacle rather than engage deeply.
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