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Feb 14, 2019 · 62% Tomatometer 330 Reviews 91% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate...
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- Robert Rodriguez
- PG-13
- Rosa Salazar
As far as movies about girl robots go, “Alita” isn’t so bad. The movie’s star is a promising Rosa Salazar as the namesake hero, a mysterious yet powerful teen girl bot with oversized anime-style eyes and a good and very powerful heart that could power a city.
- Robert Rodriguez's latest is an eye-popping spectacle that doesn't quite live up to the iconic manga.
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By William Bibbiani
Updated: Apr 21, 2020 5:42 am
Posted: Feb 13, 2019 8:00 pm
The iconic manga Battle Angel Alita tells a story about the distant future, when a teenaged cyborg is found on a giant scrap heap, and discovers who she is - and who she wants to be - through one amazing action sequence after another. It’s an astounding work of fiction, and it’s now an astounding-looking motion picture, which crams so much plot into one film that there’s practically no room for the actual point.
The film, renamed Alita: Battle Angel, stars Rosa Salazar (Bird Box) as Alita, the amnesiac cyborg who views this dystopian world with wide-eyed wonder. Christoph Waltz co-stars as Ido, the kindly cyborg repairman who repairs Alita and becomes her surrogate father. Ido wants Alita to find her own destiny, free of the baggage that comes with her high-tech body. Nobody seems to know where she came from, why she’s so advanced, and why she’s an expert in a long-lost cyborg martial art.
There’s enough story in Alita: Battle Angel to fill several movies. Over the course of just one film, Alita investigates a serial killer, becomes a bounty hunter, falls in love, joins a deadly professional cyborg sporting league, and uncovers the truth about her existence. Along the way she runs afoul of the sinister Vector (Mahershala Ali) and his scientist Chiren (Jennifer Connelly), who run the “Motorball” races and dabble in kidnapping, mutilation and illegal scrap.
Alita’s relationship with Ido is also emotional and warm, but poor Christoph Waltz gets sidelined with half the film’s exposition, so his character doesn’t get explored very much. He’s Alita’s mentor, father, doctor, professor, and conscience, and that’s a tall order. Fortunately, Waltz plays the part beautifully, and the image of the two-time Oscar-winner wielding a gigantic rocket-powered pickaxe never stops being fun.
Alita: Battle Angel is a major about-face for director Robert Rodriguez, who spent most of his career bucking the studio system in favor of low budget, imaginative independent projects. But despite his renegade attitude, he knows how to make a conventionally satisfying studio film. What’s more, his flair for eccentricity and taste for outlandish action makes Alita feel like an honest attempt to produce something exciting and new, in a climate where many other giant CGI spectacle films often seem homogenized and familiar.
Alita: Battle Angel is Robert Rodriguez’s best film in many years. It’s an ambitious, impressive, visually spectacular production with great performances that make its strange world seem real. It’s a shame that, by trying to adapt as much of the original manga as possible, the filmmakers left out most of the intelligent commentary that made “Alita”...
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Manuel São Bento MSB Reviews. Alita: Battle Angel is one of those movies that you HAVE TO watch at a movie theater (...) it's a visual experience, so do waste your time and money in...
Feb 14, 2019 · Jul 30, 2022. One of the best movies I have ever seen. I honestly don't know what movie the critics were watching but Alita: Battle Angel is an amazing movie, brought to life not only by Rosa Salazar and the other stars but by Robert Rodreguez, James Cameron and the entire VFX team.
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- Robert Rodriguez
- PG-13
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Feb 14, 2019 · IMDb RATING. 7.3 /10. 295K. YOUR RATING. Rate. POPULARITY. 732. 232. Play trailer 0:31. 1. 49 Videos. 99+ Photos. Action Adventure Sci-Fi. A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is. Director. Robert Rodriguez. Writers. James Cameron. Laeta Kalogridis. Yukito Kishiro. Stars.
Feb 12, 2019 · 2h 2m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Manohla Dargis. Feb. 12, 2019. At one point in “Alita:...
