 underestimating who I am Alright, so we have James Cameron and director Robert Rodriguez teaming up for this giant epic That's been in development for quite some time. How did it turn out? Let's find out. My name is Brandon Keith Avery And this is just my opinion Hey, what's going on guys? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Alita Battle Angel I really do appreciate it Now this film right here is something that I was looking forward to this was in my top Most anticipated films of 2019 go ahead and subscribe to my channel Check out that video that I uploaded earlier this year and you will see this film on this list Now when the trailer fish first initially came out I was a little turned off Just like everybody else because I thought Alita's eyes were just too big. It was just a little too weird But all the subsequent trailers and material market material that came after that I started to slowly get on board and I really did anticipate this film It looked like it was a a a miracle It looked like the visuals were going to be something we've never seen before or top notch Especially with James Cameron involved So I was very excited and of course it's called Alita Battle Angel That is based off of Japanese manga that was popular in the early to mid 90s by Yakito Kishiro I am not familiar with the manga or the name but I learned about it just recently when I was trying to do my research in I think it was John Lando one of the other producers the the actual Series the Japanese manga was called Battle Angel Alita But John Lando or one of the producers like no James We need to call it a little battle angel because if we look at your Firmography all of your films start with either a t or a and I was like what I actually looked and that's true Except for like piranha that came out in like 1981 But we have the terminator aliens the abyss Terminator 2 True lies titanic and avatar. So it's kind of funny that all of you know, James Cameron did not direct this film He was the writer and producer But still I just kind of found that interesting that you know, most of all all of his films except for that one Piranha does start with a t or a But anyway, let's get to the movie. This has been directed by Robert Rodriguez I can't necessarily say I'm a fan of his but I do know his work. He did spy kids sin city Planet terror and machete. I did not like planet terror. Machete was decent for what it was Now the best thing about this movie to me were the visuals if you Are a visual person if you want to have something nice to look at with all these effects and computer generated images and things like this This movie is the perfect thing for you And what adds on to that is this film was actually shot in 3d. It wasn't post converted, which I am not a fan up I'm not a fan of 3d in general. Just to be honest with you unless it has to do with James Cameron This film right here. It's just usually not that good Uh, but this was shot in 3d If I am going to pick a 3d mover I do want it to be a shot in 3d instead of post converted and uh, James Cameron in my opinion He is the grand master of 3d and uh, whatever involvement he had as far as that's concerned in this film You know, he did a great job. So it's nice to look at. I saw it in dobby Vision at an mc theater And the 3d was great. Another great thing about this film is the end the oh, excuse me the world building Um, James Cameron, uh, I feel like I'm giving more credit to him Well, usually this is his project. He wanted to Be behind the camera and directed but he couldn't because he's working on avatars 2 3 4 and part 79 Um, so he you know, he gave he passed the torch on the robber ride regus And James Cameron is very good at building worlds since what he did with avatar. I think that's perfect I mean, you know, yeah, it has some pocahontas and fern gully themes and all that good stuff But the world building avatar is phenomenal and the world building in this film right here is phenomenal as well And it takes place in the 26th century. I think to be exact year 25 63 Of course, that's a long time in the future a few hundred years And then the technology in this film is just like breathtaking There's like cybernetics and cyborgs and robots and just all kinds of stuff that you never would think of That is just prominent in this movie and what I like about it is it's not when you when you see it No one is in the mood. I mean they live in the movie. No one is in there. Oh my god This is amazing. It's all normal. You know what I'm saying? It's kind of like a remote control or something is normal It's just that's just how it is. Cybernetics is just a part of life Flying ships and floating cities. That's just you know, the way it is it is a Giant leap into the future And it's not it's not anything that you can relate to because we haven't seen technology like this in modern time And at the time we live in today, but it is something to aspire to But I do like the little subtle easter eggs That the filmmakers used and infused in this film to make it tangible for you to relate to it So when you have all these robotics and things like that, just one little slight spoiler right here They had like a bag of oranges like on a table and you would think okay It's just a bag of oranges, but no this this bag of oranges really did stand out to me and was able It gave me the chance to be able to relate to everything that's going on on screen. It's like, okay I may not have a cybernetic arm or heart, but hey, I know what a bag of oranges. It's like I I can relate to that So it just kind of asked that you know human element to it That I really did appreciate next thing that I loved about this movie was the action fight choreography It is very well detailed You can really tell that they sat down and passed everything out to make sure that every attack punch blow block dodge Whatever was executed with optimal precision and it was just great, you know I mean so so far we have great visuals We have great 3d the 3d nothing is really popping out at you at the screen But you can really feel the depth like oh my gosh that is far away or that's really close So visuals 3d world building the story is quite interesting You you do want to know what's going on and what makes everything tick and talk and all that good stuff And like I said the fight choreography is great the bad stuff about them over Let's go ahead and get to that There is not one single character In this entire movie that I cared about I cared absolutely nothing for anyone We have the main character by the name of rose rose of salazar. She plays alita You know, they did a motion capture with her cg capture She was in the burr boxes on netflix right now and also the maze runner And I really don't remember her the maze runner, but I mean her and christoph waltz You know, they're the main characters in this film and christopher waltz I think his name is like dr. Dyson Yeah, yeah, dr. Dyson idol. He's like a cybernetic genius Those two were the most that I cared about but at the same time I really didn't care about them I didn't care about christopher waltz jennifer connelly's in this. I didn't care about her air screen or scrim or her shula ali I mean none of these characters I cared about now There is one character that did stand out to me overall His name in the film Is Hugo his real name is kean johnson the first half of the film. I thought he was great Um, he was a great supporting actor. I liked everything that he was about he kind of lived by a code The actor was fine. I mean, you know It's somebody out, you know, I seen sure. What's up, bro? You know give him a pound or something like that, you know keep it moving yada yada yada But in the second half of the film something happened to his character and then he just kind of fell off the cliff I'm like, I don't know what happened. The acting was just trash They tried to throw in some little love story, which was a joke I'm just like it was like facepalm hitting like like what what are y'all doing? Like this is corny. This is stupid What happened to this character? It just ended up being very very horrible So and then when it comes to the story, it was just too much while you're interested in the beginning Or at least I was At one point I'm like, okay You're really just giving me story and a lot of it just seems unnecessary Like I understand and this is world being but like what are we doing in this world now? I just don't care anymore, you know, like and they said that like I don't know how many adaptations of this series of this manga is and maybe more than one But I was doing a little research and they were saying that this film right here is the combination of four books And I'm just like that is hurting the film by far now and James Cameron said and and a ton of interviews Excuse me that hey if this film is successful that he wants to be a part of two more I mean like what what other story do you have left to tell if you're fitting four books into one movie With this being a what two hours and 20 minutes. Yeah, well two hours and two minutes It seemed like it was longer But I mean there's a a mixture of good and bad in this film Like I said, the visuals were great The 3d is great the world building is great the fighting choreography and all that was nice And the story was interesting initially But the love story that they tried to put in here was stupid to me. It was it was cheap. It was lame Um, I cannot attach myself to um cybernetic characters I there's just no emotion to wait to them or at least it is for me. I just didn't care about them There was a end up being a lot of story points that were just unnecessary I mean, you know on another positive note, there were some sequences where I got a vibe of halo I did play that game a lot back in 2002 2003 2004 uh, but other than that guys, um I just really didn't care for it. I mean, you know, if you want story and characters this may not be for you, but if you just want some action choreography and You know something nice to look at this and that was early on as soon as I saw the first five I'm like man, this is choreographed well, but I give a crap or who wins or loses, you know So if I were to rate a leader battle angel out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it a 6 0.5 out of 10. Yes a 6.5 out of 10 But guys, that is just my opinion. Have you seen the leader battle angel? Or do you want to see it? 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