I wasn’t sure what the correct terminology was to describe how this movie was made. According to my friend Mr. Google, Alita is live action anime. Perhaps this might lead you to think, this is a movie okay for children. HELL NO, take the kids to the Lego Movie not this hack’em up. Yes, they are hacking cyborgs not people, but they are tearing off arms and legs left and right.
Alita: Battle Angel is set up the year 2563, which is three hundred years after “the fall” aka big ass war with Martians. Alita (now just a head and upper torso) is found in a scrap yard by Dr Dyson
Ido who is a cyber surgeon. He brings her back to his office and the next day she wakes up in a complete cyborg body. She has no knowledge of who she is or how she came to be in pieces at the scrap yard. At this point we are told that her heart has nuclear components that kept her and her brain alive in the scrapyard. She is probably three hundred years old, which was when they last
used that technology.
We also learn Alita was created in the image of his dead teenage daughter. No originality there I’m afraid. Hint: she’s three hundred years old, “the fall” took place three hundred years ago. You know where we are headed. Question, Alita is a total replacement cyborg with a human brain, why or better yet how, does she eat real food?
Alita is anxious to reclaim memories and explore her new surroundings. She learns they are living in dirty, overcrowded Iron City, and above floats the last of the floating cities, Zalem an oasis in the sky. The only way for an Iron City resident to make their way to Zalem, is by becoming the Ultimate Champion of Motorball, a human/cyborg roller derby with a ball type of competition. Of
course not many survive Motorball in one piece. A father/daughter relationship develops between Alita and Dr Ido. It is when he is being attacked that Alita’s unknown fighting ability shows itself. She is beyond fierce; it’s obvious she is not new to kicking butt. Soon snippets of memories begin to open the door to her past.
Rosa Salazar as Alita, does a fabulous job as both Alitas. There are definitely parts when she is an actor acting, and then becoming Cyborg Alita. The technology used to create this movie is crazy. The scenes with animated Alita and human actors are seamless; you see them as just actors who are
acting together, not some computer generated spliced together creation. James Cameron produced and wrote this, and I do see pieces of Avatar here. Mahershala Ali (from Green Book) costars as villain Vector. He will always be Dr Shirley to me, but he is a very good villain.
All in all, I was quite surprised by Alita, even though I am still struggling with a cyborg eating issue.
Alita: Battle Angel is rated C plus. The technology that created Alita and Iron City boosted an average story to C plus. This is best seen at the theatre, there is a lot of action and dramatic affects. but you know me I recommend a matinee discounted ticket. If this is your genre, there is a 3D version of Alita available.
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