Alita: Battle Angel

Alita: Battle Angel – 2019 – United States

When I was a teenager, Battle Angel (1993) the anime blew my mind and tore my heart to pieces. Now, nearly a million years later, the live-action remake Alita: Battle Angel does the same thing again but even better.

Alita is set in a grungy cyberpunk dystopia full of homicidal cyborgs. The main character is Alita, an amnesiac teenager who just wants to regain her memories and fall in love. Unfortunately, she is a super soldier with a high-tech cyborg body and lots of enemies. She and her boyfriend become wrapped in a conspiracy of oppression which, of course, ends tragically for everyone involved.

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