A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
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- 10 wins & 25 nominations
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How Rosa Salazar Brought 'Alita: Battle Angel' to Life
How Rosa Salazar Brought 'Alita: Battle Angel' to Life
Alita: Battle Angel star Rosa Salazar and the creative minds at Weta Digital reveal how they brought the cybernetic character to the big screen.
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- TriviaThis marks the first professional collaboration between James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez. Due to his prior commitments to direct the four sequels to Avatar (2009), Cameron could only serve as the producer and co-screenwriter on this film, with Rodriguez taking the directorial duties. In an interview with Empire magazine on December 8, 2017, Rodriguez said of the collaboration with Cameron, "This just doesn't happen. Guys like Quentin Tarantino and Jim only write scripts for themselves to direct. When Avatar becomes the biggest movie of all time, he told me that he's going to spend the rest of his career making Avatars, so I said, 'What happens to Battle Angel then?', because as a fan I was just interested! And he said, 'I don't think I'll ever get to do that. Hey, if you can figure out the script, you can shoot it!' So I took it home, spent all summer working on it, cut it down to 130, 125 pages, without cutting anything that he missed. It was a great gift. We had a blast; anytime I had a question I could just call him or email him and he would send back these hugely detailed answers that were so helpful. He just loves being the producer that he always wants. The guy's just so freakin' smart. Getting to learn from someone like that was the greatest internship ever."
- GoofsJust before the motorball tryout, Alita fails to recognize the Hunter-Warriors on the phony practice team despite meeting and fighting them during the bar scene. Only a couple of them were Hunter-warriors. The rest were bounties. They also weren't a phony practice team. They were low-level players in a qualifying match for the championship, that group specifically hired by Vector to kill Alita. Not to mention, Alita may have recognized them. But there's no reason she'd assume they were there to kill her.
- Crazy creditsThe 20th Century Fox logo briefly changes to Iron City style, reading "26th Century".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Red 11 (2018)
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Astonishing
I'll be honest, when I went into to cinema to watch this movie I was expecting to not like it. I had seen a little bit of the trailer and it did not really "speak" to me and Alita's eyes were off putting. When the movie had begun I was actually searching for things to dislike but surprisingly there were none apart from a few cringeworthy moments. I quickly got used to Alita's eyes and they became in fact likeable. The story began to draw me in and I got completely absorbed into the story and the visuals.
The world is extraordinary and beautiful and the action scenes in this movie are fantastic, quite honestly some of the best I have seen. The story is a bit fast paced but not to a degree that it feels rushed. Alita as a character is great, she is kind-hearted, innocent, naive and protective. Throughout the movie Alita grows as a person and learns about sacrifice, loss, love and the horrors of the human mind. Alita is very likeable because she is such a good person in such a horrible world and you can't help feeling very sympathetic for an innocent being like her as she is exposed to the cruel world of Iron City.
I watched this movie without knowing the source material and I loved it. I was drawn in very early on and had to watch it a second time. I can definitely recommend this movie to anyone.
The world is extraordinary and beautiful and the action scenes in this movie are fantastic, quite honestly some of the best I have seen. The story is a bit fast paced but not to a degree that it feels rushed. Alita as a character is great, she is kind-hearted, innocent, naive and protective. Throughout the movie Alita grows as a person and learns about sacrifice, loss, love and the horrors of the human mind. Alita is very likeable because she is such a good person in such a horrible world and you can't help feeling very sympathetic for an innocent being like her as she is exposed to the cruel world of Iron City.
I watched this movie without knowing the source material and I loved it. I was drawn in very early on and had to watch it a second time. I can definitely recommend this movie to anyone.
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- Also known as
- Battle Angel: La última guerrera
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Box office
- Budget
- $170,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $85,838,210
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $28,525,613
- Feb 17, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $404,980,543
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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