{"id":20493,"date":"2019-02-20T04:57:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T04:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/?p=20493"},"modified":"2019-02-21T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:04:30","slug":"battle-angel-is-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/living\/battle-angel-is-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Angel Is A Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A little note before I review this film as a whole: any movie that decides to show how evil a character is by having them kill a dog instantly loses a huge amount of respect from me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on the Japanese manga, Gunnm or Battle Angel Alita, this movie follows an amnesiac cyborg (Rosa Salazar) who is rescued from a scrapyard by Dr Ido (Christoph Waltz). After being renamed \u201cAlita\u201d, the teenage cyborg slowly learns more about the futuristic cyberpunk world of Iron City and the mysterious floating utopian city of Zalem, as well as a bit about her own past life along the way.<br \/><br \/>You can tell this was based on a longrunning manga series. Storylines that should\u2019ve taken up multiple volumes are crammed into a mere two hours of film (two agonising hours). The result is a very muddled and rushed story.<br \/><br \/>The film isn&#8217;t helped by the character of Alita herself. While she starts out all right, she soon becomes overly aggressive and<br \/>annoying, seeking out unnecessary fights and causing most of her own problems.<br \/><br \/>The supporting cast don\u2019t improve matters either, as the plot\u2019s need to make them all \u201cedgy\u201d prevents you from being able to feel sympathetic when things go bad.<br \/><br \/>And this is a post-apocalypse film. Of course, things go bad. The entire finale is one massive doom and gloom fiasco.<br \/><br \/>The positive this film can boast is its visuals. Spectacular cyborg fights that previously would\u2019ve only looked good in animation are perfectly translated into this live-action medium.<br \/><br \/>Once again, we have another live-action Hollywood film based on a Japanese\u00a0 manga or anime that doesn\u2019t deliver.<br \/><br \/>My advice overall is to steer clear of this film. There are many better cyberounk stories out there to be enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little note before I review this film as a whole: any movie that decides to show how evil a character is by having them kill a dog instantly loses a huge amount of respect from me. 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