Decided to watch it after stumbling upon some fan made music video and thinking “the fights are actually aren’t half that bad!”
I’m genuinely impressed how much of the original manga they managed to squeeze in.
Grewishka, Zappan, Hugo, and the motorball. Even a bit of Mars. It seems that they’ve altered the sequence of events quite a bit, but I read the manga some 20 years ago, so I might be mistaken.
Fight sequences are absolutely amazing. Especially the second fight with Grewishka.
The face capture is seriously impressive as well:
Surprised they left a lot of brutality intact. Zappan splitting a street urchin in two, Grewishka’s eye poked out, Alita’s first body literally diced. Characters being cyborgs is what made that brutality possible in the first place, and back then, it was grounbreaking, someone fighting without legs.
Dialogues are sharp, which is refreshing, after so many movies narrating everything. Here a lot is left unsaid, or at least said only once.
Funny how they use Razer Orbweaver to reconstruct Alita:
