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49 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83IndieWireMichael NordineIndieWireMichael NordineAlita: Battle Angel is [Rodriguez’s] best film since he brought Frank Miller’s graphic novel to the screen, a sci-fi epic that does something rare in an age of endless adaptations and reboots: lives up to its potential while leaving you wanting more.
- 80IGNWilliam BibbianiIGNWilliam BibbianiAlita: Battle Angel is Robert Rodriguez’s best film in many years. It’s an ambitious, impressive, visually spectacular production with great performances that make its strange world seem real.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawAlita: Battle Angel is a film with Imax spectacle and big effects. But for all its scale, it might end up being put on for 13-year-olds as a sleepover entertainment. It doesn’t have the grownup, challenging, complicated ideas of Ghost in the Shell. A vanilla dystopian romance.
- 60ScreenCrushMatt SingerScreenCrushMatt SingerAlita barely considers any of the existential questions about humanity that are typically central to this kind of sci-fi film. It’s just a slick action film. That is one way, at least, it does feel like a Robert Rodriguez movie.
- 40The TelegraphTim RobeyThe TelegraphTim RobeyAs you’d expect from Rodriguez, it has a decent number of pow-wow fight scenes, and sure loves to watch machinery being ripped to shreds. But it's all uncomfortably close to the gruesome Flesh Fair from Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, revamped as an ain’t-it-cool demolition derby with a charm-and-conscience bypass.
- 40Total FilmMatt MaytumTotal FilmMatt MaytumImpressive VFX and bursts of action can’t mask the fact that this is a tonally confused start for a sci-fi franchise hopeful, made up of scrap parts you’ve seen put to better use elsewhere.
- 40Time OutPhil de SemlyenTime OutPhil de SemlyenThis visually epic, but monotonous collaboration between James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez is less than the sum of its slick parts.