The best quotes from the Mortal Engines movie

Quotes from Christian River's Mortal Engines movie

Mortal Engines started as a young adult novel published in the early 1990s. It gained an immediate following as it told its tale of a post apocalyptic Earth where giant metal cities roam wastelands consuming whatever resources they can.

At its heart is a story of lost boy who found love in the strangest of places.

A love that saw him kill people wittingly and unwittingly.

A love that saw him outsmart and outwit some of the most savage people that ever captained a roving city.

A love that made a boy a man.

This is starting to sound like that guy that does the voice overs for movie trailers right?

Well, enter director Christian Rivers and producer Peter Jackson because they turned this book about two star crossed lovers into an epic science fiction movie featuring grotesque undead assassins, sassy agents of the Anti Traction League, traitors and would be heroes on both sides.

Tom. Hester. Magnus. The Valentines. Shrike. Bevis. Fang. Some crazy old guy.

Naturally, spoilers below.

Mortal Engines movie quotes

• "Hey, watch out!" - Tom Natsworthy's warning shout to Valentine as Hester's about to stab him.
• "This is for my mother - Hester to Valentine as she stabs him in the gut.
• "Ask him why he murdered my mother" - Hester to Tom
• "I'm sorry you had to hear that" - Valentine as he kicks Tom off the platform
• "60 minutes is all it took to to bring humanity to the very brink of extinction. Mankind mobilized, a new age arose. The age of the great predator cities. Survival of the fastest." - Professor Chudleigh Pomeroy
• "What is that? - That, is London" - Hester Shaw
• "Hester Shaw, she won't stop until I'm dead" - Valentine 
• "Unless you kill her first" - Dr Twix in reply
• "A man who controls this, controls the world" - Valentine
• "We have to stop London before it destroys us!" - Anna Fang
• "In the great game of survival, this is check mate!" - Valentine
• "This weapon could wipe out the largest city in the blink of an eye!" Tom to Hester speaking of the Medusa.
• "Run it down!" Magnus Chrome speaking of Salt Hook.
• "You're a dinosaur.... and I'm a meteorite!" Valentine to Chrome as he murders him. 
• "We should never have gone to Europe" Chrome
• "You love him?!" Shrike to Hester"
• "I release you from your promise" Shrike to Hester as he dies.

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