Review of Alita: Battle Angel (2019) by John Semley for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) — 11 Feb 2019
Viewed in the despairing environment of the big-budget sci-fi blockbuster, Alita is likely to find a cult of core fans drawn in by the persuasive digital animation, and pick-and-choose, smorgasbord world-building.
In the longview, though, it’s likely to enjoy much the same fate as 2000s cine-technological milestone Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. And that, perhaps, is the ultimate case of damning with faint, highly relative praise.
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This review of Alita: Battle Angel (2019) was written by John Semley and published by The Globe and Mail (Toronto) on 11 Feb 2019.
Alita: Battle Angel has generally received very positive reviews.
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