Alita: Battle Angel Reviews

English is not my native language so I apologize for the errors that are bound to exist.

Excuse my way of expressing. Is not pretty.

Originally writing in May 6, 2019.

What is this crap?
What were they thinking?
Why do so much people like it? I can’t understand it.

The movie is bad. Alita is done kinda competent, and just for that is not horrible.
And I’m feeling nice.

They decided to adapt almost everything instead of just the first volume. That’s why they touch so many stuff and they never develop anything. And that’s why nothing actually matters, because there’s no worldbulding.
How I am supposed to care about anything, if nothing gets properly treated?
I don’t care about the characters. You know why? Because they transform all of them into clichés and they didn’t develop them.

I wasn’t going to say shit about it as an adaptation of one of the greatest mangas ever. I never really care much about that; the most important thing is to be good by itself. That changed when I saw people saying it was a good adaptation. Is not. Fuck, is not.

Apparently being a good adaptation is to replicate a couple of scenes from the manga or anime. I doesn’t matter that it is badly done, I doesn’t matter that they are action scenes and mostly superficial and without real weight. They look similar, that´s enough.

They destroyed the complicated characterization of the characters and they reduced the story into their most based and popcorn elements. How is that good adaptation? They spit into the manga eyes, and then they brutally raped it.

Gunnm is more that an action cyberpunk manga.

By itself is a bad film too. Is moves to fast, doesn’t go deeper into the ideas, and that’s why there’s no reason to care. You may care just because, but there’s no reason to.

Characters are cliché, uninspired, basic and boring. They’re shit. Just shit.
Is almost like the didn’t put any effort in to them.

It has the same problem as the manga, in there it was pretty thin, it had a deeper meaning, here is far, far worst. Gally is a cyborg, so she can reconstruct herself and be better, and that’s why there’s no tension. Nothing can actually happen to her.
Alita beats the shit out of everybody with easy, unlike the manga.

They are a lot of stupid thing in the film as well.

Romance, as usual, is crap. Alita is not an excuse. In the manga she falls in love easily too, but at least she gets to know the fuckers. Fuckers who were human and complex. The guy in this movie is garbage who doesn’t even has a real reason to go to the floating city.
Life down there seems to be okay, unlike the manga, in there, life in the earth was shit. Going up was obviously a good idea.
Here it feels empty.

They barely even spent time together. But they really, really love each other. Bullshit.

Guns are banned, apparently they are too dangerous. Weird, I thought having a metal powerful body was more fuck up.

Well. The film is bad. Is predictable, because it follows the type of storytelling that sells, just like Transformers movies and shit like that. Is generic, empty and all the words I use to describe bad anime.

Looks good? Yeah. But I’m not impressed.
Is it fun? Maybe. I got really bored. And annoyed.

4/10.
Just because of Alita. She’s not Gally, tho. That woman is amazing.

Alaoz!

PD. Does she eats in the manga? Can’t remember. Her body is metal. It makes no sense.

First I was avoiding this movie like the plague, I saw the trailer in the theatre and thought nothing of it. Then my dad mentioned it to me that he watched it and how good it was. SO I watched it with my husband and I. I have to say these things (no spoilers).
1) OMG it's so good! I couldn't believe I was going to miss out!!!
2) Did you know it's based on an anime?
3) the characters, story line is amazing
4) true battle angel!

So if you haven't go check it out!
The movie was is a goodie!

Una Cosa Mal Hecha fue intentar mostrar la pelicula como accion en su mayoria y en la pelicula hay pocas escenas que realmente son accion donde mas accion hay es llegando al final y con el resto es mas conversación

la primera parte de la pelicula es alita acostumbrándose al mundo que se nos presenta
despues la pelicula se siente con mucho relleno y nos introducen una cosa de caza recompensas y varios personajes lo son

en si con lo que dije la pelicula es dificil que te entretenga al menos que te interese la historia

ademas en la pelicula pelea tres veces con un robot y es increible como en la primera recuerda como pelear y un recuerdo en la segunda donde alita casi muere y en la tercera alita mata tan facil al robot? solo por un recuerdo

y el final abierto no es bueno de hecho deja mas o menos claro que pasara si hay una futura secuela

en efectos especiales es regular no es lo mejor del mundo

no sabia nada de la historia o criticas cuando la fui a ver creo que tu deberias decidir si verla o no pero no creo que merezca al 100 un vistazo o al menos en el cine

For how long have I been waiting to see this movie? 10 years? 15 years? Indeed, when I was kid, I bought the comic-books with my brother, I really loved them, and when I heard that James Cameron would adapt them, it sounded really awesome. However, somehow, the guy got completely obsessed with 'Avatar' and it seemed that this project would be stuck in production hell forever. Fortunately, Robert Rodriguez came on board and even if he wouldn't have been my first choice as a director, I still wanted to check the damned thing, in spite of the negative hype it received even before it was released. Well, eventually, I have to admit it, it didn't turn out to be a masterpiece, but it was far from being a failure either and I enjoyed most of it. Indeed, even though it felt rather derivative by now, the world created was interesting enough and visually quite impressive but I wouldn't expect less from Cameron. Above all, they completely nailed the main character. Indeed, that was probably what bothered me the most with the recent US adaptation of 'Ghost in the Shell', not the fact that Scarlet Johansson might have been miscast, but the fact that they completely ruined the Major as a character. With this movie, however, Alita was just as fascinating as she was in the comic-book. Not only the way she looked worked very well (the controversy about her big eyes turned out to be completely unjustified after all) but, above all, she was just so charismatic, complex, and completely faithfull to the comic-book. As pointed out by other critics, she should be remembered as one of the best CGI animated characters ever created alongside Gollum and Caesar. The rest of the cast was also fine, except for the kid who played Hugo who was rather weak and unconvincing. Concerning the story itself, it's a shame that they tried to adapt the first 4 comic-books as it turned out to be just too much material for 2 hours of running time. In fact, I believe that it would have worked better as a TV-show. As a result, everything was rushed and barely developed. For example, it was really cool that Alita became a bounty-hunter but, eventually, she didn't do any bounty-hunting at all. In my opinion, they should have spent most of the running time on this and keep the motorball for a possible sequel. However since the motorball is something quite iconic with this character, it was expected that they would bring it already but it should have had much more impact. I mean, right in the middle of her first and only game, she suddenly ran off to help her boyfriend which felt just so anticlimactic. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of it flaws, I still think it was a rather faithtfull adaptation and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you have been a long time fan of the comic-book like me.