Review of Alita: Battle Angel (2019) by Dmitriyl — 01 Mar 2019

The movie is amazing. I've already seen it 2 times in the cinema, thinking about 3rd time. It's first time ever when I'm ready to pay for the tickets to see movie again in the cinema and surely will buy Blue ray. Very important thing is that you have to watch it first in IMAX 3D, it makes you feel really engaged in it. As far as I see, many people are really thinking about Alita as manga/anime adaptation. Personally I haven't heard about the comics before the movie, only after. I just saw several trailers and decided to check it out straight in the cinema. I would say that it's pretty big mistake to advertise and portray it mainly as an anime adaptation. Because many people don't really know a lot about anime culture in general and even think that it's weird, etc. In reality this movie is for everyone, you don't need to know anything about original anime story, with fresh mind I think it's even better to get the movie right.

The visual side is done perfectly. Cameron, Landau and Rodriguez team is really on top of that game. I don't really understand why it has been criticized by some critics for the scenario. It's understandable if you're huge original anime fan and got own vision on how it should be done. Otherwise it's just not right to criticize the entertainment movie that way. It's obviously not a movie like a Green Book, which scenario is pretty simple, but very human. Comparing it with Avatar or Ready Player One, I can say that Alita's story is more interesting for me and I won't call it a standard scenario. Surely the main hero Alita is just lovely, not sure why her eyes are an issue for some people, but they look fantastic. Also, she smiles a lot in the movie and that's catching as well. She is naive and idealistic, that's why it's really easy to fell in love with her. Rosa Salazar bravo. General cast is great and everyone is fitting characters really well. Hopefully we'll see all of them in the second and third parts, one movie is simply not enough for Alita's story.

Not sure why is not doing perfect on the domestic market and hope that things will improve. International audience love this movie and it feels like China and Japan are ready to help with earnings. Let's support our Battle Angel and show production team that we want more of it.