Review: Peter Jackson’s ‘Mortal Engines’ dazzles with spectacle, falls flat with character
Imagine “Star Wars” if a city-sized tank with a Union Jack was the Death Star and everybody was trying to be Han Solo, and you get the gist of the post-post-apocalyptic epic “Mortal Engines.” Philip Reeve’s young-adult book gets an expansive world-building adaptation courtesy of a master. Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings”) co-writes and produces while his protégé Christian Rivers […]
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