Alita: Battle Angel

Alita lays out her empathetic groundwork early and rarely diverges from it. How wonderful to have a hero that always follows through with what she fights for. How wonderful to have a blockbuster that aspires for so much and mostly delivers on those ambitions.

It’s goofy as hell and borderline inexcusable at times, but it’s also kind of glorious.

For all of Alita’s she-Pinocchio charm — and her Cameronian estrogen-charged badass-itude — she can’t quite carry the audience all the way across that pesky uncanny valley.

Alita: Battle Angel is a film with Imax spectacle and big effects. But for all its scale, it might end up being put on for 13-year-olds as a sleepover entertainment. It doesn’t have the grownup, challenging, complicated ideas of Ghost in the Shell. A vanilla dystopian romance.

Now, after a deluge of comic book epics and other CGI-filled sci-fi fantasies, the movie feels like it’s way past its sell-by date. Alita: Battle Angel looks ready to rock, but time has sucked the life out of the party.

There are no icebergs here, but that doesn't prevent the movie from sinking under its own weight.

By the end of this derivative, heartless mess, you’ll conclude that a garbage dump is exactly where writer-producer James Cameron’s new project belongs.

From my point of view this film is a science fiction masterpiece with a truly beautiful and futuristic plot and very good special effects. In this film everything is perfect from the setting to the design of the characters and therefore I believe it deserves excellent ratings if it weren't for the ending which is slightly rushed and above all it is not a real ending because it leaves the avenues wide open for a sequel that if If it weren't there it would be a real shame. So in conclusion the film is beautiful and really worth seeing if you are a fan of science fiction.

This movie would have been an easy 9/10 for me, but the cringe guy love interest fetish of hollywood or adjacent producers brings it down to a 6 for me. Can someone explain to me why it is so necessary to have a topless guy in every damn movie? What is wrong with them? In a goddamn movie about a cyborg even... very telling of this industry. Other than that, the movie is brilliant. Very sublte face animations bring alita to life. Great action scenes which feel impactful. I am very sad that some deg. writer or producer forced his fetish into the otherwise great movie.

Big eyed fighting girl in the uncanny valley city of the future. There's a much more interesting backstory hinted at, but much like the world building it isn't explored in any satisfying way. Instead we get robot wars fistfights and a cringe love story between a human being and some spare parts in the shape of a pre-pubescent girl. I haven't been this creeped out since I watched the love scenes between a human and an insect in "Bee movie". There's a weird assortment of grotesque cyborgs (reminding me of the movie A.I.) a futuristic sport which reminds me of rollerball, and an evil overlord in the sky city. One huge let down with this movie is there isn't a proper conclusion; some underling bad guys get their comeuppance but the main antagonist is left for a sequel that will never happen.

I don't have any idea what people liked about this. I found it to be weirdly paced and clumsily written. Add to those fatal flaw that the physics were optional during fight scenes which removed what little stakes there could have been. It was tropey, childish, directionless and uninspired.

The script just carries the movie to hell, it's **** garbage, but the visual effects are nice. I did't like the art direction and costume don't know why. The sound of the movie was loud as hell too. I was happy when the movie ended.