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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Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
- Hester Shaw: Hera Hilmar
- Tom Natsworthy: Robert Sheehan
- Thaddeus Valentine: Hugo Weaving
- Anna Fang: Jihae
- Bevis Pod: Ronan Raftery
- Katherine Valentine: Leila George
- Magnus Crome: Patrick Malahide
- Shrike: Stephen Lang
- Chudleigh Pomeroy: Colin Salmon
- Vambrace: Mark Mitchinson
- Captain Khora: Regé-Jean Page
- Sathya: Menik Gooneratne
- Yasmina Rashid: Frankie Adams
- Nils Lindstrom: Leifur Sigurdarson
- Toa Heke: Kahn West
- Herbert Melliphant: Andrew Lees
- Clytie Potts: Sophie Cox
- Governor Kwan: Kee Chan
- Dr. Twix: Sarah Peirse
- Stigwood: Mark Hadlow
- Pandora Shaw: Caren Pistorius
- Young Hester: Poppy Macleod
- Bürgermeister: Joel Tobeck
- Professor Arkengarth: Terry Norris
- Chief Navigator: Calum Gittins
- Mrs. Wreyland: Megan Edwards
- Mr. Wreyland: Peter Rowley
- Gench: Aaron Jackson
- Pewsey: Stephen Ure
- Pierrepoint: Nathaniel Lees
- Dietrich: Paul Yates
- Waving Aviator: Nick Blake
- Young Mother: Beatrice Joblin
- Lookout: Thomas Lahood
- Water Hawker: Simbarashe Matshe
- Salzhakener: Lee Tuson
- Food Hawker: Jason Whyte
- De Groot: Michael Homick
- Salvage Man #1: Royden Davys
- Salvage Man #2: Richard Mills
- Burly Salvageman: Shane Rangi
- Major Chen: Yoson An
- Nicholas Quirke: Nicholas Quirke
- Medusa (voice): Lynda Lester
- Tube Tannoy (voice): Rick Baker
- Londoner with Book: Katie Jackson
- Londoner with Headphones: Billy Jackson
- Scav Trader Carter: Carter Nixon
- Shan Guo Man: Philip Reeve
- Shan Guo Teenager: Sam Reeve
- Shan Guo Control: Martin Kwok
- Airhaven Control: Seth F. Miller
- Scuttlebug Thug (uncredited): Rodney Cook
- Salzhaken Refugee (uncredited): Stephen Grey
- Sooty Pete (uncredited): Peter Jackson
Film Crew:
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Christopher Boyes
- Producer: Peter Jackson
- Producer: Fran Walsh
- Co-Producer: Philippa Boyens
- Concept Artist: John Howe
- Casting: Liz Mullane
- Production Design: Dan Hennah
- In Memory Of: Thomas E. Sanders
- Supervising Sound Editor: Brent Burge
- First Assistant Director: Carolynne Cunningham
- Dialogue Editor: Ray Beentjes
- Makeup Designer: Gino Acevedo
- Second Unit Director: Glenn Boswell
- Producer: Deborah Forte
- Stunts: Shane Rangi
- Second Unit Director of Photography: Richard Bluck
- Supervising Art Director: Simon Bright
- Makeup Supervisor: Rick Findlater
- Conductor: Conrad Pope
- Unit Production Manager: Zane Weiner
- Music: Junkie XL
- Casting: Ann Robinson
- Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
- Art Direction: Brendan Heffernan
- Executive Producer: Ken Kamins
- Stunts: Stephen Grey
- Producer: Amanda Walker
- Stunts: Robert Young
- Makeup Artist: Deb Watson
- Stunts: Aron Eastwood
- Gaffer: David Brown
- Construction Manager: Mike Heffernan
- Director of Photography: Simon Raby
- Costume Design: Kate Hawley
- Stunts: Jacob Tomuri
- Assistant Editor: Greg Daniels
- Stunts: Tim McLachlan
- Visual Effects Producer: Robert Stadd
- Camera Operator: Peter Field
- Casting: Amy Hubbard
- Storyboard Artist: Warren Mahy
- Art Direction: Philip Thomas
- Assistant Costume Designer: Katherine Milne
- Editor: Jonno Woodford-Robinson
- Supervising Dialogue Editor: Martin Kwok
- Extras Casting: Victoria Beynon-Cole
- Stunts: Allan Henry
- Stunts: Gentiane Lupi
- Costume Design: Bob Buck
- Costume Supervisor: Dianne Foothead
- Assistant Costume Designer: Carolyn M. Fenton
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Mike Minogue
- Sound Effects Editor: Michelle Child
- Sound Effects Editor: Matthew Lambourn
- Music Editor: Catherine Wilson
- Dialogue Editor: Chris Todd
- Stunt Double: Yoshinao Aonuma
- Sound Designer: Dave Whitehead
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Hedges
- Concept Artist: Ra Vincent
- Director: Christian Rivers
- Sound Effects Editor: Justin Webster
- Sound Effects Editor: Hayden Collow
- Sound Editor: Melanie Graham
- VFX Editor: Dan Best
- Foley Artist: James Carroll
- Art Direction: Helen Strevens
- Stunt Coordinator: Isaac Hamon
- Makeup Designer: Nancy Hennah
- Makeup Artist: Catherine Maguire
- Art Direction: Simon Lowe
- Sound Effects Editor: Matt Stutter
- Assistant Sound Editor: Stefanie Ng
- Supervising Sound Editor: Jason Canovas
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Luke Millar
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Kevin Andrew Smith
- Still Photographer: Mark Pokorny
- Set Costumer: Sally Gray
- Music Editor: Steve Gallagher
- Location Manager: Mathew Gordon
- Translator: Leith McPherson
- Production Manager: Jared Connon
- Unit Publicist: Melissa Booth
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Ken McGaugh
- Assistant Editor: Jess Jansen
- Makeup Artist: Sarah Rubano
- Extras Casting: Hannah Charlton
- Script Supervisor: Melissa Lawrence
- Stunts: Jeremy Hollis
- First Assistant Camera: Peter Cunningham
- Makeup Artist: Michele Perry
- Stunts: Min Windle
- Stunts: Rodney Cook
- Dolly Grip: Chris Hansford
- Makeup Artist: Renee McCarthy
- Unit Manager: Paul Stieglbauer
- Property Buyer: Sandy Augusto Burton
- Assistant Set Decoration: Rosie Guthrie
- Property Master: Phred Palmer
- Script Supervisor: Veronique Lawrence
- Assistant Director: Laurie Wright
- First Assistant Camera: Roger Feenstra
- Production Coordinator: Desray Armstrong
- Stunts: Peter Hassall
- Assistant Art Director: Tane Griffin
- Art Direction: Matt Austin
- Stunts: Damien Bryson
- Assistant Costume Designer: Libby Dempster
- Set Costumer: Sarah Goodhue
- Casting Associate: Florence Izen-Taylor
- Fight Choreographer: Mark Trotter
- Casting Associate: Rachel Bullock
- Set Designer: Zahra Archer
- Set Designer: Alister Baxter
- Concept Artist: Filippo Valsecchi
- Orchestrator: Jonathan Beard
- Stunts: Tanya Drewery
- Stunts: Bodie Fitzpatrick
- Stunts: Cameron Brown
- Stunts: Kate Venables
- Set Designer: Colette Mullin
- Foley Supervisor: Craig Tomlinson
- Costumer: Emily Ireland
- Key Costumer: Saascha Wiki Kessell
- Assistant Production Manager: Teodora Ilie
- Foley Recordist: Simon Riley
- Key Grip: Dion Hartley
- Sound Mixer: Chris Hiles
- Concept Artist: Christian Pearce
- Modeling: Alex Falkner
- Dialogue Coach: Jan Haydn Rowles
- Novel: Philip Reeve
- Stunts: Ryan Carey
- Stunts: Daniel Andrews
- Casting Assistant: Lucy McLaughlin
- Standby Property Master: Alexandra Turner
- Second Assistant Director: Bruno Du Bois
- Stunts: David J. Muzzerall
- Set Designer: Yvonne Yip
- Production Secretary: Holly Keeman
- Construction Manager: Brett Blenkin
- Casting Assistant: Katie Jackson
- Colorist: Clare Burlinson
- Third Assistant Director: Simon English
- Stunts: Clint Elvy
- Stunts: Tori Marsh
- Stunts: Paddy Church
- Production Manager: Pietro Gallo
- Art Direction: Vanessa Cole
- Boom Operator: Sam Spicer
- Assistant Costume Designer: Hannah Goldblatt
- Costume Coordinator: Cilla Leckie
- Assistant Makeup Artist: Andrea Plested
- Sound Mixer: Jason Naran
- Stunts: Justin B. Carter
- Transportation Captain: Tim Harris
- Production Accountant: Linus Murphy
- Finance: Averil Mawhinney
- Electrician: Keri Manuel
- Concept Artist: Matt Codd
- Art Direction: Greg Allison
- ADR Recordist: Morgan Samuel
- Assistant Sound Editor: Andrew Moore
- Assistant Sound Editor: Tom Scott-Toft
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Alexis Feodoroff
- Sound Editor: Emile de la Rey
- Makeup Artist: Elizabeth McCarthy
- Stunt Double: Inge Sildnik
- Stunt Double: Rosalie Button
- Stunts: Fintan Costelloe
- Stunts: Tyrone Costelloe
- Stunts: Sarah Munn
- Stunts: Matt Bennett
- Stand In: Richard Mills
- Stunt Double: Michael Homick
- Concept Artist: Anthony Allan
- Set Designer: Mark Stephen
- Art Department Coordinator: Anna Houghton
- Construction Coordinator: Sally Foster
- Stunts: Ryan Tarran
- Tailor: Patricia Barker
- Stunts: Matthew Arbuckle
- Best Boy Electric: Scott Harman
- Stunts: Amand Weaver
- Stunts: Winham Hammond
- Animation: Ronan Binding
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Sally Cunningham
- Stunts: Lachlan Parkinson
- Stunts: Jace Lee
- Concept Artist: Ben Wootten
- Post Production Supervisor: Rosemary Dority
- Third Assistant Director: Tatiana Ragsdale
- Visual Effects: Joe Howes
- Stunts: Jonny McBride
- Second Unit First Assistant Director: Emma Cross
- Second Second Assistant Director: Ant Davies
- Second Assistant Camera: Laetitia Belen
- Wardrobe Assistant: Evelyn Santana Paz
- Set Designer: Rebecca Asquith
- Set Designer: Karijus Schlogl
- Concept Artist: Ian McQue
- Stunts: Kawhia Chambers
- Colorist: Erin Woolhouse
- Stunt Double: Riley Phillips-Harris
- ADR Recordist: Toby Lloyd
- Stunts: David Stella
- Makeup Artist: Lucy-Belle Willcox
- Associate Producer: Pam Silverstein
- Steadicam Operator: Dana Little
- Third Assistant Director: Harry Ashby
- Data Wrangler: Caleb Corlett
- Post Production Coordinator: Rebecca Rowe
- Vocals: Morag Atchinson
- Continuity: Clare Cunningham
- Casting Assistant: Maxwell Grant
- Extras Casting: James Takarangi-Berry
- Costume Assistant: Hannah McKay
- Costume Assistant: Will Parsons
- Costume Assistant: Hannah Sutherland
- Wardrobe Assistant: Josiene van Maarseveen
- Co-Producer: David Conley
- Associate Producer: Carlos Ramírez Laloli
- Stunt Double: Paul Franklin
- Stunt Double: Pokoho Van Gyen-Heri
- Stunts: Shane Blakey
- Stunts: Jordan Carlton
- Stunts: Mervyn Church
- Stunts: David Drummond
- Stunts: Poppy Fill
- Stunts: Luke Hanna
- Stunts: Rory McTavish
- Stunts: Jared Meehan
- Stunts: John Osborne
- Stunts: Jayde Rutene
- Stunts: Hayley Stent
- Stunts: Fletcher Stevenson
- Stunts: Saeed Zamiri
- Stand In: Olivia Popie
- Stand In: Robbie Titchener
- Stand In: Harvey Alan
- Stand In: Jeannie Grace
- Stand In: Terewai Kopua
- Stand In: Xanthe Whitely
- Stand In: Simon Wolyncewicz
- Chaperone: Rose Moody
- Chaperone: Danni Parsons
- Chaperone: Cushla Roughton
- Concept Artist: Nick Keller
- Third Assistant Camera: Jimmy Bollinger
- Third Assistant Camera: Danielle Sclacla
- Boom Operator: Nic Widfeldt
- Assistant Sound Editor: Dmitry Novikov
- Apprentice Sound Editor: Felix Filipo
- Production Coordinator: Kate Mulligan
- Production Assistant: Cameron Langdon
- Production Assistant: Chris O’Riley
- Key Costumer: Joss Henry
- Makeup Artist: Fiona Sole
- Makeup Artist: Louise Bryan
- Makeup Artist: Katie Fox-Heywood
- Makeup Artist: Amy McClennan
- Makeup Artist: Matthew Middleton
- Makeup Artist: Sanchia Reed
- Electrician: Gaston Bossus
- Concept Artist: Andrew Baker
- Storyboard Artist: Vaughan Flanagan
- Property Buyer: Ruby Fitzgerald
- Sculptor: Sam Genet
- Scenic Artist: Kathryn Lim
- Still Photographer: Chris Moss
- Health and Safety: Murray Pike
- Transportation Coordinator: Julia Connolly
- In Memory Of: Alex Kramer
- Prop Designer: Daniel Koene
Movie Reviews:
- Gimly: Shocking nobody, _Mortal Engines_ was not very good. Trying to jam way too much into two hours than is reasonable, it instead delivers on zero things. I guess I was **kind of** interested in the character of Shrike, but that was really the whole of my positive experience with _Mortal Engines_. Maybe if this thing had come out about eight years ago in the **height** of the bizarre Steam Punk obsession that gripped the globe (even if it was a weird sort of obsession where everybody called everything they like, and themselves Steam Punk but it really wasn’t required to have any relation to actual Steam Punk) then the movie could have at least done well financially, but there’s no world wherein this version of _Mortal Engines_ is a consumate film.
_Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
- TalisBriedis: Good attempt. Different, unique, and the sets are great. Yeah, it has some weak points, and some of the writing/editing could have been better. But this is a refreshing change in the usual sci-fi stuff that has been coming out. Marvel and DC are flooding the market with their super heroes (not all bad, just too much) I detest all these vampire/werewolf/zombie crap (all of it) This is a nice change, and I enjoyed it!
I did not know what to expect when I started to watch this, but I was pleasantly surprised. Ignore the negative reviews. Those are probably written by zombies/vampires/werewolves…. - Per Gunnar Jonsson: I have to say that I liked this movie a lot. It is kind of fantasy, science fiction (emphasis on fiction here) and steam punk (or perhaps I should say diesel punk) mixed together.
The world is a fairly dark post apocalyptic world where moving predator cities prays on each other. The entire concept is really quite ridiculous of course but it makes for some really fantastic and spectacular special effects and I am a sucker for spectacular special effects.
In addition the overall story holds together fairly well. That is, in the context of the ludicrous world that is the background of this story in the first place of course. It is quite straightforward without too much annoying social or green preaching that plagues so many movies nowadays. Somewhat predictable but overall a good vehicle for the plentiful action.
I also liked most of the characters. Both the bad guy and the good guys had decent charisma with the exception of Tom who was a bit of a naive whiner although he got it together towards the end.
There where few flaws. Nothing really major except that, in one scene at the end, the city of London was shown against the wall and it was bloody tiny compared to the wall. The main bad guy’s last resort was to pummel London against the wall and was expected to break it down. Before in the movie London was depicted as really huge. That scene really screwed that and made him delusional.
Apart from that, end Tom’s whining and naivety, I really liked this movie. It was the kind of over the top, fantasy/fiction movie with a big budget that you do not see every day. Of course the dickwads, a.ka “critics”) at Rotten Tomatoes and other mainstream media assholes did their best to tell everyone how bad it was. As usual that’s just the stuff that comes out of the south end of a north bound bull.
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