This looks gorgeous - all the design work is fantastic, from the live-action production design through costume and make-up to the giant VFX cities. The direction's not bad either, though it has that 'visual effects artist's directorial debut' feel, all impossible angles and moves for the VFX shots, and locked-off medium and close-up shots for any other scene. Unfortunately, the script is dreadful. It's full of clunky exposition, the structure is a complete mess, and the characters at their most believable are walking collections of hackneyed cliches and tropes but don't even hit that a lot of the time.
I gave up on it halfway through; I may go back to it, but when I've already seen full-tilt sequences of giant walking cities battling and eating each other in the first twenty minutes, is it worth shrugging through more of this story in the hope that there'll be more city fight sequences that somehow up the ante?
Rating: Bad.
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