The read
Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,508 2010s adventure movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes26%
Metacritic44/100
Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do.
5,345 audience votes
Key crew
- Christian RiversDirector
- Peter JacksonScreenplay
- Philippa BoyensScreenplay
- Fran WalshScreenplay
- Tom HolkenborgOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Hera HilmarHester Shaw
- Robert SheehanTom Natsworthy
- Hugo WeavingThaddeus Valentine
- JihaeAnna Fang
- Ronan RafteryBevis Pod
- Leila GeorgeKatherine Valentine
- Patrick MalahideMagnus Crome
- Stephen LangShrike
- Colin SalmonChudleigh Pomeroy
- Mark MitchinsonVambrace
- Regé-Jean PageCaptain Khora
- Menik GooneratneSathya
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Themes
based on novel or bookdystopiapost-apocalyptic futurerevengewastelandsteampunkfuturistic vehiclebased on young adult novel