Not what I expected, but in a good way Watched the trailer and expected a clishé superhero movie, but it is so much more. The trailer did NOT give a good representation of what the movie actually is. ITS. SO. FRICKING, GOOD. I was kind of scared it would have the same concept as Ghost in a Shell, but its not even remotely similar. The background story we only get to see a couple of seconds of is so intriguing i would love a movie just focusing on that. It has its overused bits like a clishé monolgue where one of the people is like "oh no dont die" and the others like" live without me" blah blah blah. But the setting, the backstory, the CGI, it more than makes up for any imperfections. I am so excited for the next one, and they better fking hurry up because i'm so excited. When watching it I got so scared when I realized it had probably been over 1 hour and 30 minutes, meaning the movie would soon end, and I had a million questions regarding Alitas background, the reason behind the war, who made the giant flying cities etc. I hope a lot of it will be answered in the next movie. And I also expect it to be at least 3 hours, because they have sooooooooo much material to work with.
Also I have not watched the Anime this was based off of, and therefore I do not know if it does the movie any justice, but even id it did not I would still watch it again. The movie is so good.