Title: Alita: Battle Angel
Tagline: An angel falls. A warrior rises.
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Romance
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Mahershala Ali, Keean Johnson, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Lana Condor, Eiza González, Idara Victor, Jeff Fahey, Derek Mears, Leonard Wu, Racer Rodriguez, Marko Zaror, Rick Yune, Hugo Perez, Casper Van Dien, Billy Blair, Jamie Landau, Dimitrius Pulido, Patrick Gathron, Elle LaMont, Alex Livinalli, Neal Kodinsky, Anthony Bandmann, Alan Nguyen, Sam Medina, Tod Junker, John Wirt, Darcel Danielle, Emma Lindsey, Garrett Warren, Liz Tabish, Tristan Riggs, Tony LaThanh, Jorge A. Jimenez, Vincent Fuentes, Ibrahima Thiam, Paul de Sousa, Gregg Berger, David Sobolov, Jeff Bottoms, Edward Norton, Michelle Rodriguez, Jai Courtney, Keil Oakley Zepernick, Derrick Gilbert, Marque Hernandez, Don Daro, Liza Wilk, Rachel Prieto, Michael Love Toliver, Charlotte Delaney Riggs, Gregory Alexander Wight, Gary Teague, Heath Young, King, Ricky Lee, Alex Moore, Michael W. Bunch, Betsy Medina, Amanda Marie Wilkinson, Michael Wakefield, Philippe Auguste, Tyler Vogel, Rachel Hudson
Release: 2019-01-31
Runtime: 122
Plot: When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
There is something special about Alita, only what is it? This is a movie you have to go into appreciating the audience type for which it's written. If only to grasp a lesson in 'writing for your audience', it's a great movie. I'm a parent, I'm not the movie's target audience. For much of the movie, I struggled to care, even after the obligatory "Save the Cat" scene (although it's a save the dog scene). My 3 kids loved it though (and they all agreed, they never agree!), they were the intended audience. I did like the way everything came together in the climax, but you have to be sci-fi orientated to appreciate it.
