Casting
Alita: Battle Angel starred by Rosa Salazar as Alita, Christoph Waltz as Dr. Ido, Jennifer Connelly as Dr. Chiren, Mahershala Ali as Vector, Ed Skrein as Zapan, Jackie Earle Haley as Grewishka and Keean Johnson as Hugo.
Synopsis
The story is all about Dr. Ido, who is a very compassionate cyborg doctor and found abandoned Alita in the scrapyard of Iron City. Alita was successfully fixed by Dr. Ido in his clinic but her memory was gone nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in.
Until Alita met Hugo, who just met in the Motorball. Hugo is secretly working for Vector who robs cyborg parts. Hugo introduced Alita to motorball, a battle royale racing sport played by cyborgs. Hugo helped Alita to regain her past and found out her own cyborg parts.
Alita showed her cyborg parts to Ido and he revealed that those parts are from URM (United Republics of Mars) technology. But Ido does not want to reunite with that cyborg parts to Alita’s. Ido does not want Alita to get involved in slaying Cyborgs or being a Hunter Warrior. But Alita urged to become a Hunter Warrior and disobeyed Ido’s advice. Until Grewishka, who works with Vector/Nova, slashed Alita into pieces. Alita’s severed head was reunited with her nanotech body parts from URM technology.
Having fallen in love with Hugo, Alita enters a Motorball tryout race for the prize money to send Hugo to Zalem, where Vector attempts to have her killed. Hugo's relationship with Alita leads him to decide to quit his secret job. He confronts his partner Tanji, but Zapan appears, murders Tanji and frames Hugo. Hugo escapes and calls Alita for help; she abandons the race and finds him just as Zapan does, but Zapan mortally wounds Hugo. Dr. Chiren offers to help save Hugo by attaching his severed head to Alita's life support system. When Zapan sees through the trick and attempts to stop Alita, she seizes his prized Damascus blade and slices most of his face off.*
Ido transplants Hugo's head onto a cyborg body and tells Alita that Vector's offer to help Hugo reach Zalem was a lie; as an exiled citizen of Zalem, Ido is certain that citizens of Iron City cannot enter Zalem without becoming a motorball champion. Alita storms the Factory and confronts Vector, who reveals that Chiren has been harvested for her organs for her betrayal. Vector summons Grewishka, but Alita's new nanotech body allows her to easily destroy him. She forces Nova to speak to her through Vector. When Nova threatens to harm her friends, Alita fatally stabs Vector.*
Dr. Ido tells Alta that Hugo urged to climb in the cargo tube in Zalem. But Nova shreds Hugo’s body and Alita tried to save her but failed. Months after Hugo’s death, Alita strives to be a Motorball Champion and make it to the top of Zalem where Nova resides.
Review
Alita: Battle Angel is a cyberpunk movie, violent yet worth to watch. This movie implicates the difference between rich and poor. Society insists that rich people are more powerful than the poor. Poor people strive to become rich and because of the crab mentality of some rich people, they will do everything just to let those poor people down.
The main character or the protagonist of this movie emphasizes the woman empowerment. Women are known as the most emotional than men. Women are called weak but this movie implicates power and gender equality. This movie shows women's awareness in determining decisions through the different problems in society.
The movie is open-ended and how Alita can avenge against Nova – we will never know. There are rumors that there will be a sequel with the title “Alita: The Avenging Angel.” Just like any sci-fi film, we are looking forward to a more empowered and exciting movie like Alita.
Sources:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alita:_Battle_Angel
