Mortal Engines Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs

1. The Hilariously Bad Ending

No spoilers of course, but this is most definitely not a movie that ends stronger than it begins.

Yes, there are some enticing visuals during the wildly over-the-top finale, but you also have to put with some generic beam-in-the-sky blockbuster nonsense, an hilariously telegraphed plot twist you'll surely see coming at least an hour away, and an unearned final optimistic send-off.

The end of the movie is in many ways the epitome of its problems: it has little regard for tone or coherent storytelling, hoping audiences will simply get caught up in the scale and the visuals rather than think critically about it for even a second.

So, Mortal Engines isn't good. But there are certainly good elements among the trash, and here's what it got right...