PG-13 2 hours 2 minutes
(saw in theater in 3D on 02/19/2019)
I did enjoy this movie although some of the romantic subplot needed some editing and smarter dialogue. Alita is supposed to be the last of her kind, so it would make sense that she looks "different". Before I saw this movie, I read book one of the manga. I am glad I did as I could follow the humanity of this story rather than dwell on (well I did for the first few minutes) the bionic limbs and bodies. While there are no credit extras at the end of this movie, the movie's last scene with the character, NOVA made me laugh out loud. As I was the only one in the theater who did so, I guess no one else was impressed with NOVA's appearance.
I liked Alita: Battle Angel, but agree that its weakest part is the teen love story. The dialogue indicated that Alita was actually 300 years old. Most of those 300 years were spent in a coma, so emotionally she was still a teen. The 300 year old Edward Cullen in Twilight kind of creeped me out as those years were spent (emotionally) growing up. Actually the paternal love of Doctor Ido for Alita and a certain (adult) character's change of attitude towards Alita had far more emotion impact than the love story subplot. I did hear many reviewers (Rotten Tomatoes) say that this film was confusing. So I decided to read volume one (free if a member of Amazon Prime). Maybe that information improved my opinion concerning this film. However, at 2 hours some judicious editing probably would have made a vast improvement in reviews.
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