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FILM
ALITA: BATTLE
ANGEL REVIEW
Robert Rodriguez’s latest
is an eye-popping specta-
cle that doesn’t quite live
up to the iconic manga.
T
he iconic manga Battle Angel Al-
ita tells a story about the distant
future, when a teenaged cyborg
is found on a giant scrap heap, and
discovers who she is - and who she
wants to be - through one amazing
action sequence after another. It’s an
astounding work of fiction, and it’s now
an astounding-looking motion picture,
which crams so much plot into one film
that there’s practically no room for the
actual point.
The film, renamed Alita: Battle Angel,
stars Rosa Salazar (Bird Box) as Alita,
the amnesiac cyborg who views this
dystopian world with wide-eyed won-
der. Christoph Waltz co-stars as Ido,
the kindly cyborg repairman who re-
pairs Alita and becomes her surrogate
father. Ido wants Alita to find her own
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