Alita

Alita: Battle Angel ascends to impressive heights of success

By: Jonathan Pabico, Peak Associate   Prepare for battle, sci-fi fans! Robert Rodriguez delivers a thrilling and epic film with Alita: Battle Angel. Rodriguez layers the story with immersive visuals; the film’s ruined cityscapes are fitting metaphors for not only the characters’ strife, their dangerous environment . He also provides a western genre undertone for the movie’s world that, plus the film’s action, captures the story’s grim realities about the brutal costs of a lawless society that thrives on violence and injustice. Despite a slow start, the film compensates with its stylized action sequences. Smoothly edited and run in slow…

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