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Mortal Engines (2018)

The missed potential here hurts so much because if this movie had had dialogue/plot as absurd and huge and overdone as the premise and vfx, it would have been unstoppably cool - but instead we got shmaltzy focus-grouped generic pablum, probably chosen by committee, in place of interesting plot and dialogue. 

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