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