User blog:JohnHope1/ALITA: Battle Angel

Of course, ALITA also naturally raises the question of whether you should know the source material or whether a film has to stand alone if you want to look at it objectively. Of course, ideal is a healthy middle ground, which does not raise any questions or leave open questions for the inexperienced viewer, and the easy integration of elements that the fan can enjoy. This is exactly the case with ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. It offers 122 minutes of spectacle, with a little bit of depth, spares the audience with endless action sequences as advertised, but sets them carefully and not distributed over the film for the sake of worth watching. And while, to be honest, the more undemanding Saturday evening audience is having fun, you can literally feel that behind the one scene, or the other dialog hides delicate hints that do justice to a die-hard fan of the template. Somehow the ideal of such a film.

Alita is a cyborg. Actually composed of many mechanical parts, Alita remains her preserved head with a human brain. But memories of her past life remain in the dark until an emergency gradually re-activates her gray matter.

It takes a while for ALITA to get going and the cyborg can let off steam. Any impatience that may arise is also the fault of a misguided advertising campaign. Because the main character takes her time, she should remain understandable and understandable in her behavior. It seems to be an element of manga that they immerse themselves in heavy emotions in order to finally discharge themselves in relentless violence. Both are somewhat reduced in ALITA. However, there is often a lot to be said about what you can do to a cyborg, despite an FSK 12 approval.

The backdrops of Eisenstadt sometimes make a rather poor impression of where the majority of the action takes place. Fortunately, the creators do without a post-apocalyptic world in which only violence and the right of the stronger rule. 300 years after the “fall”, the world has come to terms with its fate on the ground. On the other hand, very little is seen of Himmelstadt, a floating fortress several miles above the ground, and the place of the elitists. It seems that James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez will do more for a possible continuation in this direction. Finally, Alita makes it very clear towards the end that she will not fight her fight for herself in the future.

Ethnic groups have of course been amazed that skin actress Rosa Salazar has calculated these enlarged eyes typical of anime into the face by computer. It draws a false image of women, etc. Excitement where it can only be inappropriate. The more disturbing, however, is the decision to have Alitas hair recalculated with motion capture, which sometimes reinforces the impression of the artificial, not the real.

It must be recognized that the main characters behind this film, Rodriguez and Cameron, put a lot of passion into the project. It is even surprising that Cameron did not stage the child he wished for, which he discovered for himself in 1998, always made great sounds, in order to give preference to TITANIC and then AVATAR. But the manga series by Yukito Kishiro, which has been published since 1990, is in good hands with these two creative minds and represents a successful bridge between traditional Asian arts in character form and Hollywood with moving images at its finest. ALITA BATTLE ANGEL is neither the largest of all litters, nor without one or the other stumbling block in creative or staging terms. But it is successful entertainment that, despite everything, can lead to

It would also be interesting where the decisions were that Robert Rodriguez could only direct and work on the script. Where the Texans are used to handling directing, editing, camera, sound mixing, book, effects, music and production design in a personal union. Rodriguez's biggest budget was $ 40 million at SIN CITY. At ALITA it was 170 million. With a gross profit of less than 55 million so far, one could rethink the personnel issues in the event of a continuation.