2019 · action · sci-fi · adventure
Alita: Battle Angel
Directed by Robert Rodriguez2h 2m2019
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
Our read: Alita: Battle Angel (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender.
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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