Alita: Battle Angel is a worldbuilding triumph and a narrative failure

11:03am PST - February 1st, 2019    alita: battle angel - The Verge

Robert Rodriguez’s film, based on a celebrated manga series, is mostly a vehicle for tremendous fights and disappointing sequel setup. Rosa Salazar stars as Alita, an amnesiac cyborg rescued from a junk heap by Christoph Waltz, and slowly recovering her memor…