Friday, March 8, 2019

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Director: Robert Rodriguez. Cast: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Edward Norton. 122 min. Rated PG-13. Action/Sci-fi.

Robert Rodriguez has been making entertaining movies for so many years, but still doesn't get it. He still doesn't know that eye-popping CGI effects never replace (or even undermine) a good story, and females should not become action heroes (with total disregard for what made a female unique for the role) just because it's cool. And then being so self-assured, to actively move the entire plot towards an incomplete ending ... on the very first installment? To show your main villain in the last scene, to prepare for a sequel? Lots of guts.

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