The film stars Rosa Salazar ( Maze Runner, Insurgent) as Alita, a cyborg amnesiac with exceptional martial prowess Christoph Waltz ( Inglorious Bastards, Django Unchained) as Doc Ido, the cybernetics expert who finds Alita's head in a scrapyard and gives her a new body Jennifer Connelly ( The Rocketeer, Requiem For a Dream) as Chiren, a cybernetics expert Mahershala Ali ( The Hunger Games, House Of Cards) as Vector, a shrewd businessman who gets what he wants in exchange for a pipe dream Keean Johnson as Hugo, Alita's love interest who works for Vector stealing body parts from cyborgs still using them Edward Norton ( Fight Club, The Incredible Hulk) as Desty Nova, a shadowy mastermind residing in a utopia hanging in the sky far above the Scrapyard with his eyes on Alita Ed Skrein ( Deadpool, The Transporter Refueled) as Zapan, a dangerous cyborg bounty hunter publicly shamed by Alita Jackie Haley ( Preacher, Watchmen) as Grewishka, a crazed cyborg who owes his life to Nova and others.įirst off, let's address people's biggest complaint about the trailers - Alita's eyes. James Cameron ( Titanic, Avatar) produced and Robert Rodriguez ( Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn) directed this live-action CGI adapatation of of Yukito Kishiro's 1990 violent cyberpunk manga.

More surprisingly, I enjoyed it too.And I really want people to go see it in theaters so we can get Alita 2.

She actually enjoyed it, much to my delight. Well, more like I dragged her along with me. I took my fiancee out to see Alita for Valentine's Day. My fiancee on the other hand had never read the manga nor seen the anime and only even knew about it from what I had told her. In other words, I went into this movie expecting to be angrily disappointed at a piss-poor adaptation of one of my favorite stories. I will preface this by stating I am 38 years old and have every volume of the Battle Angel Alita manga/graphic novel and saw the anime.

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