Continuity mistake: During the game, Alita disposes of the black cyborg guy with the yellow paint, the same one she met at Kansas. She rips his arm off and uses it to spike the head of the colossal dude with the morning star-like weapon. You could see as the arm was being ripped, that debris and a big metallic piece of scrap were left behind. However, when the 2 next opponents are skating towards Alita making her take off fast, there is no such trace of debris beside the whole body of the guy. (01:33:00)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
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Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Rosa Salazar
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Alita: Battle Angel is a cyborg fight-fest with a wide-eyed teen super-heroine using her incredible physicality to beat the grease and guts out of a variety of brutal mechanized bad guys while trying to figure out who she really is and stop rampant evil! Fans of cyberpunk will not be disappointed, and anyone who's familiar with Science Fiction films will no doubt see something of Frankenstein, Blade Runner, The Running Man, Rollerball, Elysium, A.I., The Terminator and more here as they share some DNA (or is it nanotechnology?). Uncanny Valley or incredibly realised CGI is in the eye of the beholder-Nevertheless, this is a violent action-oriented identity-quest for Alita, and heaven help whoever gets in her path.
This movie looks just beautiful. On paper it is not exactly the most original take on the cyberpunk genre, but what we get here is crisp looking, fantastically detailed and with enough flair and ingenuity to genuinely give some sense of wonder. From a storyline perspective, it's sadly quite thin and commits the cardinal sin of not giving the story a truly satisfying conclusion. You'll be hard pressed to find a movie that rushes through the third act challenges more than this one does, giving the main character basically no challenge and one-shotting (one-slicing...) the 'final bosses', just to build up a sequel that is not likely to ever have. The main character is quite likeable and sympathetic (once you get over the freaky weirdness of her anime eyes...which happens quite flawlessly, another testament to the visual department), even if the script is cringey to the max in many instances (the heart scene, the xxvi century John Wick scene). Christoph Waltz is a fantastic father figure, but other than that the secondary characters are cardboard cutouts and quite poorly written, with dishonorable mention for the love interest, which though is probably just designed to be like that, some insipid adolescent love. I rank it 3 stars because it truly is one of the best looking sci-fi movies in recent years and it manages to bring sense of wonder that walks you through the formulaic but not unpleasant story and the movie is never boring, being a solid action flick. However, be very aware that you might feel cheated at the end.
More mistakes in Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: I don't mean to be rude, but am I supposed to know you?
Dr. Dyson Ido: Actually we haven't met.
Trivia: James Cameron originally intended to direct the film, and began work on it way back in 1995. He kept pushing it back, as he felt the technology to make the film hadn't been perfected yet, and also because he became attached to several other projects in the meantime. Eventually, Cameron relinquished the director's seat to Robert Rodriguez and instead focused on writing and producing the film. The film was finally released in 2019... twenty-four years after Cameron started work on it.
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