Alita: Battle Angel,Robert Rodriguez's substantial-screen adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's manga series Gunnm, opened to middling reviews and solid but unspectacular box office. The film, and a long-time passion project of James Cameron (who is credited as producer and co-writer of the screenplay),is a strange mishmash of ideas. While the effects are truly dazzling — would we expect any less from Rodriguez and Cameron? — the myth is muddled and too derivative to keep audiences hooked beyond the gorgeous visuals.
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