City of Ember

2008

Action / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 129 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 46% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 73526 73.5K

underground world dystopia mayor post-apocalyptic future puzzle steampunk

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Plot summary

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.

Director

Gil Kenan Photo
Gil Kenan

Top cast

Tim Robbins Photo
Tim Robbins as Loris Harrow
Saoirse Ronan Photo
Saoirse Ronan as Lina Mayfleet
Toby Jones Photo
Toby Jones as Barton Snode
Bill Murray Photo
Bill Murray as Mayor Cole
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756.71 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 10
1.44 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 67

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

With the future of the planet in grave

With the future of the planet in grave danger, some far-sighted builders decide that it’s best for humanity to build a subterranean city into which they can retreat. It’s got to be something self-sustaining as they are going to be down there for a couple of centuries. They do provide exit instructions, but over time they get lost and so nobody knows that maybe it’s time to resurface. Now, though, the engineering is starting to give up the ghost and that means power and food are becoming rationed. The mayor (Bill Murray) is hopelessly out of his depth/obsessed with his own position and the chief electrician “Sul” (Martin Landau) is running out of ideas so it falls to the unlikely pairing of youngsters “Lina” (Saoirse Ronan) and “Doon” (Harry Treadaway) to rekindle the population’s appetite to get some fresh air. Luckily, she has a box left to her by her grandmother and as their jobs involve them clambering around the city’s gubbins, they can begin to explore in earnest. This isn’t something they can advertise - the mayor and his thugs will not brook any disenchantment in their city, even if the lights are all about to go out. Now having to fight a rearguard action too, can they discover a way out - and even if they do, is there anything left? I liked the creative style of this film and the fantasy is well explored and unravelled by the engaging partnership of Treadaway and Ronan amidst a city of colourful visual effects. Murray hams up nicely and there’s just the hint of menace from the Dickensianly monikered “Barton Snode” (Toby Jones) to keep the adventure moving along quickly for a ninety minutes of passages, pipe works and grand scale machinery. If you’re looking for complex psychology here then don’t bother, it’s all simply presented family fayre with a cast that look like they are enjoying telling us a story that looks great and vibrates when it’s meant to.
Reviewed by pfne 6 / 10

This isn't a bad movie at all...

.. but nor is it a great film.It's an adaptation of a book and for what it is it's entertaining.Ember is an underground city and 2.kids try to find their way out of the city. That's pretty.mich the whole plot.It's well acted by the younger cast and it rattles.along in short order at 90moniutes.I'm glad.i watched it, I'll not ever watch it again though.
Reviewed by regnarghost 7 / 10

Flawed... but with enough of its own to separate it from the flock

Had some trouble deciding my rating on this one. There is much about it to like, for sure, but there are also some flaws that cant be overlooked. It has great setting and atmosphere, an intriguing plot and charm to boot. Such things scores a lot with me. The directing is at times questionable though, there is little sense of pacing and there are some parts that feel tacked on (the crazy flumride anybody)just because its supposed to be a summerfranchie. The cute little girl is completely superfluous, and Bill Murray and Treadaway's Doon doesn't make enough with their characters (or isn't allowed too). One thing is clear. Its strenghs of this film mostly resides within the source material(witch i haven't read though). Its really nice for a change to see a fantasy film without a lot of monsters, the enemies here are brain-stagnation, greed and selfishness. Some parts had me snickering. The parts where they are handed there jobs through lottery (a jab at communism?)and the old man with the pipes. THe story is actually pretty good, not original, but tightly woven and deceivingly fresh with a timely message. In short, the source-material had the brains, but the director lacked the guts (or maybe just the talent, or were assasinated by his studio) too go through with it.Still, it beats the latest Narnia installment, and the latest Harry Potter too for that matter. Also, Ronan, the kid from Atonement, turns in a good performance.
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