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    Review: 'Mortal Engines,' a visual marvel, is half wonderful, half monotonous

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Dec 14, 2018 3 minutes

    "Mortal Engines" is such a visual marvel, such a dazzling, pictorially involving imagining of the future, it's a shame it's not completely worth seeing.

    For though it's based on the first volume of Philip Reeve's highly regarded young adult series and adapted by the same trio who won an Oscar for "Lord of the Rings," from a dramatic point of view this story set 1,700 years in the future is static and inert.

    The directing debut for Peter Jackson

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