The film also has appearances by Jennifer Connelly, who is chilly and mysterious, and Mahershala Ali, who is chilly and dangerous.Īlita's human core is given a body and she awakens but has no memory of what came before. Somehow, Salazar still conveys deep emotion without a crucial acting tool. She's been given huge CG eyes but they're not as distracting as you may fear. The film crams in so many plot lines that it risks being overstuffed but somehow stays true to its mesmerizing vision and emerges as a sci-fi success, if not a triumph.Īlita is both machine and human and the big-budget screen adaptation is both live action and computer generated, each element present in Alita herself, played with equal parts tenderness and ferocity by Rosa Salazar. Those are the two sides brought up by "Alita: Battle Angel ," our film entry into the thrilling manga world of artist Yukito Kishiro and imagined for the screen by producer James Cameron and director Robert Rodriguez. For one, she can slice apart a single falling tear with her ferocious battle sword. She loves chocolate, breaks curfew and crushes on a bad boy with floppy hair, a leather jacket and a motorcycle. Alita is just like a typical teenage girl.
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