Film
Alita: Battle Angel
- Director
- Robert Rodriguez
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 122 mins
Talk about long-gestating. This adaptation of Yukito Kishiro‘s manga Gunnm, AKA Battle Angel Alita, was first announced 15 years ago, but producer James Cameron got bogged down with Avatar and its sequels. It finally reaches the screen with Robert Rodriguez behind the camera. Remember him? He made his name with El Mariachi and Desperado, but hasn’t directed a feature since Sin City: A Dame to Kill For five years ago.
Rosa Salazar, a veteran of the Divergent and Maze Runner YA dystopian novel adaptation franchises, takes the title role as a disembodied ‘core’ who awakes in yer all-purpose post-apocalyptic world where she’s equipped with a nice new body by boffin Christoph Waltz and learns more about her past. It’s all been conjured up using Avatar-style tech. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t prove as awful as the Scarlett Johansson Ghost in the Shell.
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