The third act of Alita: Battle Angel is where the narrative of the film falls apart and the missed opportunities and inconsistencies begin stacking up, destroying all the surprising and somewhat ...

Going into "Alita: Battle Angel," I assumed I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into, and I honestly wasn't ecstatic about that prediction. It may be early in the year, but "Alita: Battle ...

Japanese manga and anime have been translated into live-action versions many times over the past few decades, to varying degrees of success, usually in the fair-to-middling range. It really wasn't ...

It isn’t exactly that the visually spectacular “Alita: Battle Angel” shows you anything you haven’t seen before. Highly effective performance-capture technology. Richly detailed post-apocalyptic ...

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Perhaps the biggest conundrum of "Alita: Battle Angel," the new CGI-heavy sci-fi film from director Robert Rodriguez is how its attempts to combine three books' worth of material into one movie both ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The manga movie "Alita: Battle Angel" has been 20 years in the making, and producer Jon Landau thinks it will finally represent the breakthrough success in Hollywood for a ...

Science-fiction cyborgs, or "cybernetic organisms" have been around in print and film for a long time. My personal favorite is the Terminator in futuristic filmmaker James Cameron's 1991 film ...

If you want to know what James Cameron has been up to since he achieved worldwide box-office dominance with Avatar 10 years ago — besides tinkering away on a bunch of Avatar sequels we still don’t ...

Although there are some fun sequences and genuine wonder to behold, director Robert Rodriguez‘ ALITA BATTLE ANGEL is mostly familiar, noisy, visual mayhem with a thin plot and even thinner characters.