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rodriguezrtardJul 23, 2019

"She now knows who she is, and she’s got a target, and it's still a complete story with a beginning, middle and end," said Rodriguez. Complete story? This is a complete joke. Can i please have a movie that doesn't setup for a sequel then"She now knows who she is, and she’s got a target, and it's still a complete story with a beginning, middle and end," said Rodriguez. Complete story? This is a complete joke. Can i please have a movie that doesn't setup for a sequel then flop. Absolutely ridicolous and a complete waste of my time. I'd like my money and the two hours i spent watching this movie back. It is infuriating to keep watching these movies which by no means have an "end". Rodatrded can get as poetic as he wants with this BS but there is NO end NO sanctification for the watcher. A complete money grab to spend 2 hours admiring CGI. "grossing a respectable $404.9 million worldwide, not enough to guarantee a sequel". Not only did this movie take 20 years to make but the next one isn't even likely to happen. That's all movies are nowadays, lets end with some massive cliff hanger never really getting to the end leaving the audience with complete blue balls hating their damn lifes so they come onto metacritic in the hope these idiots take some advice. Stop wasting out da*n time watching this crap just to be left with NOTHING. Yeah she just watches her boyfriend die then joins the "roller ball" league of whatever. Brilliant absolutely brilliant. I hope you enjoy your money because that's all your getting from this. Nobody is impressed and the people rating this positive are simply here for the pretty colors. Simply a waste of time. DO not watch this movie if you are finally trying to find a show with an acutally ending. AND NO rodtard, theres NO ENDING. nothing not a single bit. This should be the first episode of a series. Ridicolous and neither of you should call yourself directors, because you dont give a flying about the watching experience and just want to see the $$$ signs roll in. Well congrats take your 400million and shove it.… Expand

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BatareykinJul 17, 2019

A boring movie full of special effects. A lot of mistakes. Film for children and possibly teenagers.

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hnestlyontheslyOct 7, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Alita: Battle Angel is the story of a utopian society where guns have been outlawed and regular people are paid to enforce the law by their corporate overlords at night, because the mechanized military force can’t be bothered and everyone else is too busy Ubering women home from the club to their doom.

The plot is fairly muddled: Alita doesn’t know if she wants to be a manic pixie dream girlfriend or a naïve cyborg daughter or a rebellious teenager or the leader of a sci-fi rebellion or a professional roller skater (sic). Which is fine, but it means that there are points when it seems like the movie is being drawn and quartered by romantic and action plots, like the moment when she’s lined up for the Big Game and she simultaneously gets phone calls from both the Doctor telling her to abandon her post and her boyfriend who needs her help in a completely different place. It’s easy to imagine that what the film intended was to show that Alita contains multitudes and wears different masks for different people, a bit of powering wish fulfillment here and an emotionally accessible boyfriend there, but in some sense Alita comes off as a little shallow and restless.

Christoph Waltz’s backstory is pretty shady, which is also fine–there’s something to be said for leaving the audience wanting more, creating drama through mystery. It’s unclear what his daughter’s deal was that required him to build her “fast legs,” or if he was just unwilling to live in a world where his daughter would have to–god forbid–wheel herself around like any other person with a mobility issue. Which brings up a point about disability in the year 2400: it certain seems like a lot of people who would otherwise just be heads and spinal columns are turning into enhanced bounty hunters for little or no money. The doctor’s moral objection to rocket ball racing don’t seem to be that hard and fast when Alita decides it’s the only way she’s going to be able to jog her amnesiac memory–even though it seems like the “demon” of his former involvement spawned his disgust.

If I were the nurse from this film, Dr. Ido’s assistant, I would be a little miffed. She had some lines and she clearly is helping keep the business afloat, but Alita kind of creepily avoids her in any scene where they’re together. She calls the doctor “dad” in front of her, snuggles up with him on the coach, under the nurse’s grossed out frown, without so much as a “hello” or a “thank you for playing a role in reviving me twice.”

With an eye squarely on the ending of the film: it seems like Alita isn’t actually able to accomplish very much aside from her journey of self-discovery. At no point does it seem like she’s in danger of facing a competent foe. The lackeys of the villain are constantly depending on sub-optimal grunts to do their dirty work, which makes it a little surprising when they are able to score even a little scratch on the most advanced piece of (Martian?) weaponry in centuries. The villain relies on a form of hypnosis (which I find narratively boring) in order to project himself on the lower world. I know that this is an adaptation of a manga and that that magna exists as part of a certain aesthetic of sci-fi dystopias, but where I’ve seen it done best is in Rick Remender and Sean Murphy’s Tokyo Ghost, which for a number of reasons finds ways to transcend the clichés of the genre.

Tokyo Ghost, if I can get off track for a moment, still has the consumerist battle royale race car scenes, the man-to-man brawls, the journey of self-discovery, the empowered woman hero, and the anti-war critique, but it does not give itself over completely to those flashier elements of storytelling. It grounds itself in issues of environmental destruction and corporate oligarchy. So, I bring it up primarily to point to it as a path not taken in the conception of the original source material.

For a different perspective, Friend has always been a big proponent of “original sci-fi” movies and liked everything about this movie except all the scenes with the boy, who was terrible–this was constant critique whenever he saw the trailers. Wife seconded that by saying that at no point does he seem like a nice guy. He spends a lot of time creeping on a two-day old cyborg teenager, despite being old enough to drink alcohol with the owner of the race track. He cuts their dates short to do horrible things to innocent people on the streets. And he just generally spends a lot of time committing sins of omission, besides being a poor jumper.

Film in general seems like it was a bit of a mess, but no so outrageously stupid that you should avoid it. For more on uncanny valleys and the disappointing CGI check out the Imaginary Worlds podcast, unfortunately behind a Spotify paywall. Also look at Josh Spiegel’s take on “the pitfalls of sequel-building,” and take heed of calls punish high profile producers of the film.… Expand

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parallax_84Jul 25, 2019

The movie is garbage, the dialogue is cringeworthy. There are some good action scenes and nothing more. This movie is clearly directed towards the younger audience.

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SoSayWeAllAug 1, 2019

A masterpiece turned into a mediocre teenage movie. What a shame... The goods : The cast was fine for the most part, Gunnm looks fine to me. The bad : the second most important character of the movie : the city, is butchered... it's all shinyA masterpiece turned into a mediocre teenage movie. What a shame... The goods : The cast was fine for the most part, Gunnm looks fine to me. The bad : the second most important character of the movie : the city, is butchered... it's all shiny and almost clean and crips, when the city should have been dark, rusty and dirty. The liberties taken with the story are ridiculously crying to appeal for teenagers... "let's bundle while playing a rollerblading game"... nonesense. Gunnm is my favorite, I really wanted to like the movie... but I'm not 16 years old, so I unfortunately can't.… Expand

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Kita_JinApr 6, 2020

A horrible mess of a movie and a waste of some excellent sourcematerial. It tries to shoehorn together several different storylines and cut so many pieces out of each to make them fit into the time alloted that they lose everything of value.A horrible mess of a movie and a waste of some excellent sourcematerial. It tries to shoehorn together several different storylines and cut so many pieces out of each to make them fit into the time alloted that they lose everything of value. Every storyline could have stood on its own and made an excellent movie.

The characters are bereft of nuisance and lacking in the depth that made them original in the source material. They are introduced as cardboard cutouts and with no reason to care about who they are and what they want.

And the worst part is that the movie ends on a dead note; there is no climax, no highlight, no grand finale. And to add to the insult; it ends with "to be continued".… Expand

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amheretojudgeJul 6, 2019

What a mindless game, oh, also the film is a lot like the competition.

Alita: Battle Angel Rodriguez is a mystery to me. Something I can't solve. Particularly, his definition of style. I do not understand this part of narrative. At all. TheWhat a mindless game, oh, also the film is a lot like the competition.

Alita: Battle Angel

Rodriguez is a mystery to me. Something I can't solve. Particularly, his definition of style. I do not understand this part of narrative. At all. The director Robert Rodriguez persists on applying makeup to every frame of the film. Every scene is beautified to be adored on large screen but then he also craves for the harrowing images that apparently is to express the other side of this world. This mixture of alluring and disturbing images should have attended the perfect balance. And yet, it breathes sad air, poignancy, irreplaceable and annoyingly unsettling is the feeling you are left with. Addition to that, loud and cheesy background score, poor editing, amateur camera work and chalky conversation gives away the film within its first five minutes.

A film that then, runs on formulaic structure that was found to be outdated ten years ago, is just a cherry on top. The crown is snatched from Godzilla: The King Of Monsters, that was considered to be the worst investment of the year. The action is more obsessed on painting the frame, in fact any physical sequence for that matter, the makers are persuasive on coloring the film with crowd pleasing color rather than work on the choreography or the momentum behind those empty punches.

The vfx that everyone is drooling about, is yes, admirable but still not highly detailed or perpetually convincing, simply put it this way, I have seen better, polished and much smoother, than in this so called futuristic world. Each character is given an introduction individually, a smart move if you have somewhere deep to go, they are as thin as wafer and transparent as water. In fact, the only way you see someone surprise you, is Christoph Waltz, who through his performance sculpts a resonant message as he fixes Rosa Salazar's- aka Alita: Battle Angel- suit before she enters the competition.… Expand

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Dann43Jul 25, 2019

A movie about teen robot puberty. The dialog is simplistic with the characters displaying idealistic etiquette. Adults might want to give this a miss as its a tried and tested movie rehashed with AI choice of love and kill. My favourite partA movie about teen robot puberty. The dialog is simplistic with the characters displaying idealistic etiquette. Adults might want to give this a miss as its a tried and tested movie rehashed with AI choice of love and kill. My favourite part was the Robot chocolate orgasm near the start that the boy gave her, Ohummmmmmm, so hot.… Expand

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LouesApr 8, 2019

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.

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DodgerFeb 14, 2019

Alita is unfortunately a disappointing mess of poorly woven together cliche story lines. The *heartstring* moments are so overwrought and poorly executed that any attachment to the characters are destroyed over the course of the movie. On topAlita is unfortunately a disappointing mess of poorly woven together cliche story lines. The *heartstring* moments are so overwrought and poorly executed that any attachment to the characters are destroyed over the course of the movie. On top of all this, the pacing of this film was terrible making it feel considerably longer than its actual two hour length.

Overall then this movie has a script and dialogue that felt like it was written by a ten year old with little understanding of human interaction. In addition characters the plot points are horribly cliched and overdone. Apart from some of the visuals this movie has nothing to offer, avoid unless you have literaly nothing else to do.

P.s. Christoph Waltz is completely wasted in a film this poor.… Expand

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imthenoobJul 7, 2019

Despite a solid cast and director, Alita just didn't do anything for me. The CG felt very out of place and looked downright terrible at times. The story is very lacking as well. Nothing really works well and I just didn't care for it. I thinkDespite a solid cast and director, Alita just didn't do anything for me. The CG felt very out of place and looked downright terrible at times. The story is very lacking as well. Nothing really works well and I just didn't care for it. I think in the future, They'd probably do well to focus more on acting than money wasting action scenes because it wasn't a major box office success.… Expand

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DaisyLimaMar 30, 2019

Full of sci-fi cliches,creepy lead but some good action.the story was must generic that can get

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dafienJul 14, 2019

Predictable. Very expensive way to promote lack of ideas. Awful. Save your money and time and avoid it.

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zabe73Feb 15, 2019

Barf. If all you want is visuals then go for it. If you want an interesting story or characters then you should probably stay away. Again, barf.

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metalloFeb 21, 2019

Boring story, everything already seen, irrilevant music, standard characters, ugly phisics and broken motion dynamics. Special effects are well made, but it is ridiculous to consider it a pro, in these years. Boring, boring, boring.

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ScienceAdvisorFeb 16, 2019

Exposition city, formulaic, cringe-worthy dialogue that makes the audience laugh at inappropriate times, amazing CGI fight scenes that have been spoiled since their highlights were in the trailers, and illogical plot development (big badExposition city, formulaic, cringe-worthy dialogue that makes the audience laugh at inappropriate times, amazing CGI fight scenes that have been spoiled since their highlights were in the trailers, and illogical plot development (big bad sending one instead of the entire army). The worst part of this is that the extreme contrast in quality within the movie shows that it could have been as amazing as some are claiming. There is a rumor that a auto-script writing program was actually used for parts of this, and I would not be surprised if that is true. When the largest talking point is a single line that people claim nearly made them physically sick, you know Cameron really needs to work on accepting feedback during production.… Expand

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aaaaabbbbbcccccFeb 14, 2019

I'm just kind of disappointed. The movie draws a lot more from the OVA than the manga, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The bad thing is the way the movie skips over things and mishmashes the story bits it does choose to use into anI'm just kind of disappointed. The movie draws a lot more from the OVA than the manga, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The bad thing is the way the movie skips over things and mishmashes the story bits it does choose to use into an inconsistent mess. For example, why does Hugo *want* to go up to Zalem? The reasoning is explained and fleshed out in both the OVA and manga, but here there is none. Motorball gets shoehorned in as a plot device so that Alita can make money to get up to Zalem *after she says she can make enough money hunting bounties.* The only reason it's there was for visual effects, which is really all I'm seeing praise for in the other reviews.

I could go on for awhile about all the things in this movie that irritate me as a fan of the original work, but the inconsistencies in the characters and plot in the context of just the movie are the reason I'm giving this a low score. It was pretty, at least.… Expand

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StPeopleFeb 17, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The film is a complete **** It all starts with the fact that our heroine is found in a landfill (hmm, how did she get there? (We won't find out)), she is found there by a local dock and repairs it with a body meant for his late daughter. Next, we are introduced to a guy who works on the dock getting parts. For 8 damn days, they "know each other" and Alita is ready to give her heart for his dream. **** after that I walked out of the cinema.
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SebastianAfonsoMar 29, 2019

It's filled with quite a few sci-fi cliches, subpar acting, dialogue, and character effects, and a story that felt neither very inspired nor all that extraordinary like the big budget and heavy advertising on this film would have you believe.

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stenrom1Feb 14, 2019

Saw the Dolby Cinema 3D Pre-show and I was really disappointed to see a amazing manga turned into a really crappy mess. They should have just made a full CGI film in Japanese.

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Adriano_arFeb 15, 2019

Robert Rodriguez has fallen into the bag of names, who took a great idea and turned it into a disaster. While keeping some key elements from its source, Alita: Battle Angel finds itself full of awfully common cliches, and turned into (oh, notRobert Rodriguez has fallen into the bag of names, who took a great idea and turned it into a disaster. While keeping some key elements from its source, Alita: Battle Angel finds itself full of awfully common cliches, and turned into (oh, not again!) a TEEN movie with very bad choices.… Expand

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NothingReviewsFeb 15, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm going to try to explain why this movie was not good, in fact, I think it was one of the worst movies that Robert Rodriguez has ever directed and he helped to created Sin City and El Mariachi which were great movies I have seen and it's probably not his fault. Let me just say first, I don't know anything about Yukito Kishiro's manga series so I don't know if anything from the movie was entirely from the manga. Another thing is that I wouldn't blame on the director as it is pretty hard to take parts of the manga (I think) and create a movie out of it which I think it's challenging because of other anime adaptation tried to something like that but failed (Netflix's Death Note, Ghost in the Shell and Oh god Dragonball Evolution). Lastly, if you do enjoy this movie, don't make this review stop you for liking a movie you did enjoy. If you like it, then alright. Okay finally onto the review:

Before I say anything negative about it and trust me there are a lot of bad things about it. First things first, Christoph Waltz was the only good actor in that movie. He can show emotion from his tone and face and his dialogue was pretty good which was surprising. Half the time, the CGI sometimes looks great such as Alita. I think they did a good job rendering her into this world and looks quite realistic which I find it quite weird because of those big eyes and yes I know it's from the manga but I just find it quite weird. Alright now for the negatives, Alita's characteristics and performance from the actress is really bad. She tries to show off her abilities and skills like with the bar scene when she shows off her hunter warrior's badge and she acts like a brat when she shows it to Zapan and then she makes this I think was a speech but I was so distracted by how the actress said it. She sounded so lazy and just made me cringe a lot. They also have these flashbacks to her past and they weren't developed much, a few flashbacks and that ship and that's it which makes me think that there's going to be a sequel. Anyway, there's two-scenes which was Alita screaming something that you would do when you karate chops a plank of wood which again made me cringe. She even figured out where Hugo lived without explaining how she figured that out. What did she do? Go through every house in the city until she finally comes across his house waits for him to wake for god knows how long, it just doesn't make any since. Jennifer Connelly is the even worst. She is so expressionless with no emotion I thought she was a robot for a second and then decided to become the good guy towards the end whilst in the beginning, she hated her because she has the body of her dead daughter but there's no god damn reason why she turned to be a good guy. So the other half of the CGI looks awful, the city they live sure has small details to make it look like a dumpster but Hugo's CGI robot suit was terrible and the actor's head literally pops out from the CGI and you can tell that and I want to explain one scene which doesn't explain anything. So Hugo's is being wanted for a murder that he didn't do which first of all is stupid because of Zapan was the one who killed his best friend and a victim and they don't have any evidence to explain why he was guilty, you can tell that it was a sword slash and SURPRISE he doesn't have a sword and yet he's guilty. What the hell. Once Hugo recovered, he left Dr. Dyson's house and somehow gets on these giant metal ropes which leads to this sky city which by the way I have no **** idea what's in that city and nobody explains what's in that city or any information other then it's for some special people. Anyway, he somehow got onto the rope WITHOUT getting shot from those mechs. These no security to stop him. Alita arrived and for some reason, the guy in the control room finally saw people on the rope. WTF, you didn't see him before you got to kidding me. The Ending is unsatisfying and I think people see that as well. This probably gives a hint that again there's probably a sequel.

Honestly, I expected better than this load of crap and don't get why reviewers like this and guess what, I'm not even done with my review. There are too many negatives to this movie. Again, if you like this film, then it's alright. Don't make me stop you from liking it but I hope you can see my reason as too why I think this is a bad movie.… Expand

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fredjesusFeb 16, 2019

Transformaram um dos melhores mangas de todos os tempos, com um dos vilões mais marcantes de todos, uma história dura e ao mesmo tempo envolvente em um filme de romance adolescente, me senti várias vezes assistindo a crepusculo. quanto aosTransformaram um dos melhores mangas de todos os tempos, com um dos vilões mais marcantes de todos, uma história dura e ao mesmo tempo envolvente em um filme de romance adolescente, me senti várias vezes assistindo a crepusculo. quanto aos dois vilões e a historia dura de uma maquina de matar revivida e criada por um homem que perdeu tudo....isso foi simplesmente esquecido para que o filme pudesse se enquadrar em "13+". Decepcionante, os efeitos são bons mas não salvam esse filme… Expand

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viroodiemFeb 20, 2019

Yet another big budget movie trying so desperately to ape the maligned and malignant Disney model. Striving to reach the pinnacle of flashy style over substance and completely missing the point of the source material by bending over backwardsYet another big budget movie trying so desperately to ape the maligned and malignant Disney model. Striving to reach the pinnacle of flashy style over substance and completely missing the point of the source material by bending over backwards to tell you how hopefully hopeful it is.

Trash through and through from beginning to end. But would be great if you were on some strong hallucinogens. Otherwise it is nothing but cotton candy fluff.… Expand

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expiredcheetosFeb 24, 2019

thank you for ruining one of my favorite manga series hollywood,i hope you burn and die like the filth you are

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JennaaaMar 5, 2019

I was disappointed, to say the least. I was looking forward to this movie, but it didn't live up to the trailers, or my thoughts of it being another Ready Player One. The use of CGI is excellent- but the storyline is what was awful. I nearlyI was disappointed, to say the least. I was looking forward to this movie, but it didn't live up to the trailers, or my thoughts of it being another Ready Player One. The use of CGI is excellent- but the storyline is what was awful. I nearly fell asleep halfway through because it was so dull- the story was not at all consistent and jumped from one subject to the other that I honestly didn't know what was happening anymore, and it was super predictable in every way. nothing in this film made me go "oh, didn't see that coming" except for when the dog gets murdered, but it made me so mad I wanted to leave the cinema. I stuck through it till the end, only for there to be a cliff hanger to set up the second movie that I somewhat wish will be better than this one? But let's be real, there are never any good sequels to films. The three stars are only for the CGI.… Expand

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beezleMar 2, 2019

robert rodriguez spent a decade remaking el mariachi over and over and another decade remaking spy kids over and over...

now hes combined the two into this mindless, joyless pile of garbage that has zero character development, tons ofrobert rodriguez spent a decade remaking el mariachi over and over and another decade remaking spy kids over and over...

now hes combined the two into this mindless, joyless pile of garbage that has zero character development, tons of plotholes and so much violence it actually gets boring. in 30 years you weebs flocking to this movie just might be able to buy your own teenage sex robot, until then you can watch battle angel alita over and over while the rest of the world continues to accept that creepy hyper violent animes should stay in 2d.… Expand

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goodReviewer420Mar 27, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very good movie!!! alita dies at the end :'( part 2 plz!!!!111!!!!!!!1111111!!!!!!!!… Expand

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