- Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
- 122 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes61%Metacritic53IMDb7.3
"I do not stand by in the presence of evil."
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
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Contemporary, unpretentious, classical in form and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
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- GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 202310/10
Yeah, I didn't read the Manga. I was never a manga fan, but now that comic books are going the way they are... Manga is starting to look pretty good isn't it? Anyway, it seems like a lot of the bad reviews are... political. You know, the, "people only like this because they are (insert woke insult)." and that's really not fair. I'll go out there and admit that Alita's eyes kind of freaked me out. Too realistic, too cartoony eyes, and that left me with an unsettling feeling. It was creepy. It was creepy in the same relative way the Elves on the Shelves are creepy. But the story comes fast and hard and leaves you very satisfied in the end. It kind of felt like Princess Monanoke kind of ending. And that is all with a story about someone that in really pretty innocent in a world that is really pretty horrific, and that is also a fun thing to watch. But, yeah, her eyes kind of freaked me out. Aside from that, it was a totally enjoyable film. Give it a shot and ignore the politics.
Read the whole review on TMDB - tmdb44006625on TMDB · Mar 20197/10
Definitely a Robert Rodriguez movie, but a Robert Rodriguez movie made with that James Cameron money. The world building was incredible. Rosa Salazar, Christophe Waltz, and the rest of the cast do a great job. The technical wizardry, not just with the visual effects but the use of 3-D and IMAX was nothing short of dazzling. The action is exhilarating. I'll also take Motorball over podracing or Quidditch any day. Yes there are problems with the script because James Cameron has never been a strong writer. There is also way too much sequel baiting for my taste. But for a movie like this to come out in a time when all the profitable IPs are getting tedious, Alita Battle Angel was refreshing and tons of fun. Easily the best live action anime film adaptation to date and a kick ass sensory overload. James Cameron, I would rather you devote time to make more Battle Angel and less Avatar.
Read the whole review on TMDB - Gimlyon TMDB · Feb 20195/10
I did enjoy _Alita_. It was a great big "pkyew-pkyew" sort of a mess, but I did still walk away having had a pretty good time. Unfortunately, both Alita(the character)'s romantic interest and _Alita_(the movie)'s romantic plotline I despised. And this aspect took up **so much** on screen realestate that I could never see my way to giving _Alita_ a glowing score, even if everything else about it had been perfect (it wasn't). An interesting part of the flim though that I also need to touch on is the special effects. They aren't even close to photorealism, but it honestly still totally works, just because there are so many of them. Impressive is the most appropriate word that comes to mind. See, even if the CGI effects don't always sell themselves as reality, the world that they are in fits, it's like how an animated movie doesn't look like real life, but you're still convinced because against its own backdrop, even though maybe they didn't use an actual elephant to play the role of Dumbo, you still believe that he's a real character **in that world**. _Alita's_ sheer abundance of creative, setting driven CGI, blurs the lines between live action and animation, delivering a totally new
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Cast
- Rosa SalazarAlita
- Christoph WaltzDr. Dyson Ido
- Jennifer ConnellyChiren
- Mahershala AliVector
- Ed SkreinZapan
- Jackie Earle HaleyGrewishka
- Keean JohnsonHugo
- Lana CondorKoyomi
- Jorge Lendeborg Jr.Tanji
- Eiza GonzálezNyssiana
Crew
- Robert RodriguezDirector
- James CameronScreenplay
- Laeta KalogridisScreenplay
- Bill PopeDirector of Photography
- Tom HolkenborgOriginal Music Composer
- Ian SilversteinEditor
- Stephen E. RivkinEditor
- James CameronProducer
- Jon LandauProducer
- Robert RodriguezProducer
Cameos
- Edward NortonNova
- Michelle RodriguezGelda
- Jai CourtneyJashugan
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