ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL-2019-In the year
2506 after a great war with Mars, a United Republics of Mars
scientist (Christopher Waltz) rescues a cyborg girl from a junk pile
and calls her Alita (after his dead daughter). She (Rosa Salazar) doesn't remember
who she is but has memories of fighting a battle on the moon.
Meanwhile the scientist's ex-wife (Jennifer Connelly) runs Motorball,
cyborg battle game owned by Vector (Mahershala Ali). A young guy Hugo
(Keean Johnson) tries to help Alita regain her memory but he also works
for Vector stealing parts from other cyborgs.
It turns out Alita is an URM “berserker”, the most advanced cyborg ever. There are a lot of fights. She even fights after being chopped up in pieces. The real villain is an immortal called Nova (un-billed Edward Norton) . This movie is not bad but it kind of slows down after Alita fights a bounty hunter Zapan (Ed Skrein) when Hugo is branded a criminal. It retains a lot of anime and manga elements but I don't think it deserves a sequel. It was director Robert Rodriguez's biggest hit although there is some controversy over whether it made money or not.
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