2019 Directed by Robert Rodriguez
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.
Rosa Salazar Christoph Waltz Jennifer Connelly Mahershala Ali Ed Skrein Jackie Earle Haley Keean Johnson Lana Condor Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Eiza González Jeff Fahey Idara Victor Rick Yune Derek Mears Leonard Wu Racer Rodriguez Marko Zaror Hugo Perez Casper Van Dien Billy Blair Jamie Landau Dimitrius Pulido Patrick Gathron Elle LaMont Alex Livinalli Neal Kodinsky Anthony Bandmann Alan Trong Sam Medina Show All…
William Ladd Skinner Leslie McDonald A. Todd Holland Jeff B. Adams Jr. James Clyne Mark Goerner Feng Zhu
William Ladd Skinner Walter Schneider Shari Ratliff Shamim Seifzadeh Megan Montemayor Gary Stel Josh Tywater Chris Yoo
Brian Adler Richard E. Hollander Eric Saindon Joe Letteri Mark G. Soper Sebastian Trujillo Emile Ghorayeb Ludovic Chailloleau Anneka Fris Joe Howes Jason Astley Alexander T.H. Browne Christian J Smith
Paula Fairfield Andy Nelson Craig Henighan Brad Engleking Clark Crawford Angelo Palazzo Tim Rakoczy Doug Mountain
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I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of limbs that get cut off in this movie.
one thing I learned from ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL is that human skin faces stretched over giant robot bodies are literally my least favorite thing in the world.
Cameron's tin-eared writing plus Rodriguez's juvenilia is as dire as you'd expect, but Cameron's design and FX perfectionism plus Rodriguez's simple (and finally well-employed) economy is as tantalizing as it sounds. This is all over the place, an often eye-popping (sometimes literally) YA dystopia with some of the clumsiest writing and performances of either filmmakers' careers and a halting narrative that promises alien wars and global socioeconomic upheaval but delivers robot swordfights and Rollerball tournaments. A mess I will probably sit through a few more times.
I was higher than I intended to be when I watched this and I feel like I've met face-to-face with God.
Very fun when she’s slicing tears in half. But an absolutely cold snooze whenever she’s flirting with Disney channel star Chench Benchley. Unfortunately the Chench scenes make up 30 hours of this movie’s 40 hour runtime.
That being said, I would’ve really liked to be a target polo wearing extra in the Alita Battle Village.
"Whose body is this?"
A film about bodies, identity, digital performance and engineered selfhood. A film about dysphoria and the joy of altering yourself to match how you feel. (Cis ppl do not interact!!) Rosa Salazar gives one of the best performances I've ever seen in a film. I do not trust anyone who doesn't at the very least find something of interest here. I found much more than that.
Edit: I wrote a piece about some of my feelings on this wonderful film
digital and corporeal self-actualization—our relationship to our shells and the complex power structures that wield control over them. color me surprised to find a YA dystopia interested in narrative economy, visual detail and character. the production design that evokes japanese transhuman cyberpunk and repurposes it in a post-war, american refugee context is unbelievably gorgeous, as is the kinetic fluidity of the action. first time in awhile i've been sequel-baited and actually cared enough to want to see more. bring on Alita 2.
Rotten Tomatoes: 61%
Metacritic Metascore: 53
IMDB: 7.3
79/100
Viewing Medium: Amazon Prime
Release Date: 14 February 2019
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Budget: $170M
Worldwide Gross: $404.8M
Vector, Nova: "That... looks... fatal."
SYNOPSIS: A deactivated cyborg is revived, but cannot remember anything of her past life and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
Far better than what I anticipated, Alita: Battle Angel really. works because its script first makes sure that it covers the plot basics before filling up the pages with cyberpunk details. Alita is, by all means, a thoroughly riveting character and her arc is extremely compelling throughout. That defining feature provides this film with a sturdy backbone to rely on even…
Als Fan des Original Animes von 1993 war ich schon ein bisschen skeptisch. Allerdings bin ich doch eher positiv überrascht. "Alita" ist sicher kein überragender Film, aber in der Summe macht er mehr richtig als falsch und bleibt der Vorlage doch ziemlich treu. Dass das keine Selbstverständlichkeit ist, zeigen Filme wie "Ghost in the Shell" oder der unfassbar grottige "Der dunkle Turm". Insofern war ich schon etwas erleichtert, dass sich hier die Umsetzung eines Klassikers einigermaßen ordentlich aus der Affaire gezogen hat.
Am Ende leidet Alita aber auch unter zu viel verschenktem Potenzial. Das fängt beim AllStar-Cast an, (Ali, Waltz, Conelly) die aber allesamt wenig überzeugen können und fast schon zu belanglosen Nebencharakteren verkümmern. Rodriguez hat sein Augenmerk auf Alita…
