Alita Battle Angel Movie Review

A Poorly Paced Film With Some Good Action

So, I saw Alita Battle Angel last night with a buddy of mine, and it was kind of bad. Poor pacing, poor acting, but some decent action once and a while.
Alita Battle Angel follows a cyborg named Alita as she is reawakened and bright back from the grave. Then she fights some bad guys.
You know, the character motivations are pretty weak, I mean yeah, they do sorta explain some stuff about the character and the conflict. However, everything is presented so poorly, you will question the entire film from beginning to end.
The acting is pretty terrible in the film. The emotional range of the actors goes from loud, to kinda quiet sometimes. The dialogue feels unnatural and repetitive a couple of times.
The pacing of this movie is atrocious. There's practically no time for characters to develop. They care about each other just because... because don't question it I guess. There's very little to work with here, and it shows.
Oh! Also there are a ton and I mean a TON of cliches in the movie. I'm a little late to the party reviewing this movie, but here's my thoughts if you haven't seen it yet. And just to note, sometimes it's almost laughable how bad the cliches are.
I will give the film this, once and a while, there are a couple good actions scenes. They're not perfect, but they're nowhere near terrible. If you want some flashy action, then you'll get what you pay for. Actually, the action was probably the best part of this film.
I didn't go into the film with any real expectations, but it somehow figured out how to go lower. You should also know, this film doesn't really have an ending. It tries to follow the hero's journey, but it stops before it should have. The only reason to even consider watching this, is for some of the action scenes, otherwise I recommend passing on, Alita Battle Angel.



final score: 2.5/5