Battle Angel Alita

Finally got round to seeing this, as it was on Sky Movies, Friday, and all I can say is, wow.

Didn't realize it's a James Cameron film either, and after Titanic and Avatar which in my eyes are both abysmal films. This is a real revelation.

I won't spoil it and I've purposefully used the naming from the old Manga release we got here of the anime. It's something like Alita: Battle Angel (and GUMN in the original Japanese) but don't let that put you off. It's epic.

The plot, has her found mostly broken and tossed out on the scrap heap at the edge of town. Repaired by Dr Ido with the mech body that would have been his daughters replacement legs, she explores the world and learns that there is a big fuck off midgar style plate that serves as an upper city and that the world was plunged into a post apocalypse wasteland due to a war with Mars.

I will not spoil any more but will say this, it's miles better than Captain Marvel.  For one, when Alita fights, she gets knocked down, loses and picks herself up and fights again. She's flawed in a way that Captain Marvel isn't.

I know the MCU has its fans and that but I found the whole thing to be boring, she was a perfect superhuman and apart from smashing a blameless Streetfighter cab, largely a personality vacuum.

Alita isn't. She displays emotions, and acts just like a teenager would, which is cool and entirely in keeping with her character. I can't remember what emotions Captain Marvel did but I don't see her getting smacked around by the Kree and then coming back to wipe them all out. It just went on with her acting like a big space Karen, wanting to talk to the manager and that.

The only weak bit is Dua Lipa's track on the end credits, which although good doesn't really fit, would have preferred some sterling electro or synthpop maybe Luke Eargoggle or Analogous Doom as the outro, The main music is fine and is by Junkie XL which is cool he's done a lot of film work, think "Deadpoof" and you'll be halfway there as well as A Little Less Conversation by Elvis.

And yes before you as its set up for a sequel and you do get used to her big eyes in this.

Overall score. 9