Some scars never heal.
| Cast |
Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Jihae, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Lang, Frankie Adams, Colin Salmon |
| Director |
Christian Rivers |
| Screenplay | Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, from the book by Philip Reeve |
| Music | Junkie XL |
| Cinematography | Simon Raby |
| SA distributor | UIP |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Media Rights Capital, Scholastic Productions, Silvertongue Films, Universal Pictures, WingNut Films |
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| Genre | Sci-fi thriller |
| Language | Low impact and infrequent used in conversation and to insult people. |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Violence is frequent and of moderate impact with fantastical and realistic settings. |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | There are complex and mature sci-fi themes that deal with futuristic machines, revenge, auctioning of people for labour work, survival with an unlikely team, hunting for fuel and food to survive, using machines as shelters, secret vault, power struggles and killing as the only way to survive by power hungry individuals who hunt people to do labour work and keep the ware machines functioning at 100% all the time. Looking for supplies to help people to survive. Helping the innocent be free. Fight to relieve the unduly captured people to feel good about themselves. |
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| PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for sequences of futuristic violence and action |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Suggested age limit 14 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Metacritic.com 32 critics | 9 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 142 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer  Mortal Engines has no shortage of eye-catching special effects, but lacks enough high-octane narrative fuel to give this futuristic fantasy sufficient cinematic combustion. | 5 |  |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 10 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Inept, derivative, violent sci-fi fantasy based on YA novel. | 2 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 45 users | 13 |  |
| Rottentomatoes users 1568 users | 13 | |
| IMDB 6235 Netizens | 13 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 12 | |
Average .. 48% | 10 | |