soultakerneo

It feels like a last minute reskin of script that's completely unrelated to DC at all. You barely feel the story take place in Gothem without Harley's voice over constantly reminding you. The story is loose, so loose that you wont miss a thing if you remove the cop, the huntress and the black canary. The balance between telling the story and building characters is off too, can't belive Mary Elizabeth Winstead played a such under development and under proformanced role. And the cop, man, that acting was awful. Other than few well designed art pieceish scene and Margot and Ewan's excellent acting the movie is not worth watching.

As a longtime fan of Gunnm(Battle Angel Alita), I am satisfied. I appreciate the production team took their time to do the research of the original serials. The adaptation is great, they filtered out few "acquire taste" and swapped in elements that would make much more appeal to general public. The film really kept true to the original manga and reassembled almost everything from the manga the scenes, mechanical bodies, characters and the world they lived in. They did a great job on capturing Alita's slightly naïve stubbornness, the "all in or all out" euthanasic, and the pursuit of who she is. Storywise, the film ingeniously weaved the first 11 books of manga together, brought up few events that was happening in the 2nd chapter of Alita's adventure to the 1st movie. Which is nice since I bet they're already thinking of the next Alita movie. But as few of Cameron's work, the dark side and the ugliness of irontown wasn't rendered enough. The lack of depth on the ugliness made the whole plot a bit light, the emotional conflict wasn't intense enough and the romance plotline which is very important in the 1st chapter a little bit lack of depth. The overall CG is stunning. Other than the wanted flyer and the parasite's face the rest of CG is absolute marvelous. All in all, definite a great Gunnm movie, will definite watch it again and again till the sequel is out!!!