A surprising disappointment This was set up to be be a movie I would love. Everything about it screams 'favourite'! Director, producers, cast, cinematography...all favourites.
Yet somehow they missed the mark. It looked fantastic and the script, awful as it was, was well executed, but the story was just not there in any fashion. It moved from scene to scene with no real natural flow, and plot revelations were crowbarred in all over the place.
Sure, I wasn't expecting an award winning flick, but from this ensemble I expected better.
Personally, I think it would have been better as a mini series where Alita's character arc and the darker aspects of it could be explored. We were also only shown the surface of the world that was built and that should have formed a huge part of the movie. It looks amazing, but it was just...there...with very little explanation as to why and how.
All in all I enjoyed it as a 6/10 is an OK movie in my book, I just wish it was more.