Review of Alita: Battle Angel (2019) by Denx — 14 Feb 2019

It's nice to see so much money spent on bringing such a cyperpunk manga classic to the big screen but past the wow effect, the movie falls short on the narrative and fidelity to the original material. Instead of telling one story at a time, they tried to squeeze too many parts of the manga into a 2 hours movie. The result is a mess, with hollow characters, plots that goes nowhere or some that don't even happen in the manga.

Why did they remove most of the characters's back story to add this "heart" intrigue that reminds more of Ironman's Ark reactor than any of the stories written by Yukito Kishiro ? People may enjoy the movie for its incredible visuals but many will cringe on the bad writting and as a fan of the manga, it just feels like a failed opportunity to give this masterpiece the movie it deserves.