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Name: Mortal Engines
Director: Christian Rivers
Genre: adventure, science-fiction
Released: 2018
Duration: 2 h 8 min
Rating: 6.1

Mortal Engines has an iRankMovies score of 48.1/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Mortal Engines (2018)

Some scars never heal

Release:2018

Runtime:2h 8m

Country:New Zealand

Director:Christian Rivers

Language:English

Genre

AdventureScience Fiction

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Keywords

Based On Novel Or Bookdystopia Post Apocalyptic Future revengeWastelandSteampunkFuturistic VehicleBased On Young Adult Novel

iRank48

Mortal Engines rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.1/10· 152K votes

Rotten Tomatoes25%

Metacritic44%

TMDb6.205/10· 5K votes

With 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.1/10 on IMDb and 44/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Mortal Engines

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.

Cast of Mortal Engines

Hera Hilmar
as Hester Shaw
Robert Sheehan
as Tom Natsworthy
Hugo Weaving
as Thaddeus Valentine
Jihae
as Anna Fang
Ronan Raftery
as Bevis Pod
Leila George
as Katherine Valentine
Patrick Malahide
as Magnus Crome
Stephen Lang
as Shrike
Colin Salmon
as Chudleigh Pomeroy
Mark Mitchinson
as Vambrace
Regé-Jean Page
as Captain Khora
Menik Gooneratne
as Sathya

Mortal Engines facts

Budget: $100M
Box office: $83.9M

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026Methodology Data sources

Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Ambitious dystopian world-building with fascinating post-apocalyptic vehicle designs
•Action-packed adventure sequences that deliver spectacle and scale
•Strong visual effects capturing the grandeur of the setting effectively

What the audience disliked

•Convoluted plot undermines the intriguing premise and character development
•Young adult adaptation struggles to find emotional depth despite novel source material