Action Hero MoviesAside from being a transhumanist sci-fi from 2019 — obviously helping to push a particular agenda relating to a particular problem-reaction-solution from around 2019 – Alita: Battle Angel is otherwise an entertaining movie with good action. A bit juvenile, but well scripted, well executed and consistently engaging.
I rate this movie Decent, which is quite complementary considering its juvenile aspect – the strong genre and execution kind of make up for that. It’s got a cool concept at times. Its inter-galactic souped-up transhumanist genre and its juvenile quality makes it a bit like a cross between Blue Beetle (DC movie with Xolo & Bruna), Dark Angel (series with Jessica Alba) and some kind of CGI-heavy semi-cartoony thing like Transformers perhaps. It it were a bit more grown up and human, without losing the slick action and excitement factor, it might resemble Dark Angel or Elektra or The One (with Jet Li) or even something more like The Matrix and it would be rated accordingly, but it’s not, so we’ll settle for a Decent rating.
A heavily CGI-d up version of Rosa Salazar plays the lead female and the main star of the movie, while Keean Johnson plays her boyfriend and one of the lead male roles. Christoph Waltz also plays one of the main male roles, as the doctor who originally finds Rosa’s character then fixes her and becomes her mentor in a very limited way. These main characters all give adequate performances but nothing that wows, while a few other supporting cast members do a pretty good job.