I was somewhat exited running into a Rodriguez that I had missed. I expected a female fronted action spectacle, but that is not entirely what “Alita” is.
In some dystopian future there is one “sky city” left and a piece of earth below. The rest of earth was destroyed. The rich live in the sky, the poor at the surface. We follow Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) who repairs robots (cyborgs) in his repair shop. He finds the ‘living’ head of a female-looking cyborg and fixes her to a new body.
Trying to raise “Alita” as his lost daughter, the annoyingly animation-looking adolescent Alita fiends a friend, a game, a purpose and her origin.
Drama, here and there action. The movie is not boring, but not exactly great.
