Craig Moore

I really have enjoyed the series so far however, I have noticed something really annoying about all the shows. Every single one seems to portray gay characters as if it were a requirement for family viewing or, a necessary formula in general. I would be happy to see a perfectly ordinary story about a boy, a girl and, their dog in which everyone is confident about their gender identity and so the boy is happy as a boy the girl is fine with being a girl and even the dog is happy as a normal dog. But, in keeping with the times, the dog must become a cat over time by means of a course of medical procedures. The boy must become a woman who then falls in love with the girl and the girl and the dog who is now a cat get married. Then they travel in time by way of ancient stones. Now that would be a story!

The bottom line of any review will depend on how the reviewer draws from either the positive or, negative aspects of the film. There are plenty of both. The movie does have many strong points and most people have admitted to enjoying it despite the rushed pace and a plot that only partially gets assembled from many fragments by the end. I typically don't like stories that are simply too unbelievable and unrealistic to allow the suspension of my disbelief. For this reason I have never been a big fan of silly super heroes or, giant Japanese monster movies. Alita is a perfectly fine character even with her big beautiful over sized eyes which frankly, are not too big for someone who has stepped off of the pages of an anime type comic book. The other characters that surround her do trouble me a bit simply because, they are so grotesquely proportioned and awkward in both appearance and in manor that I find them difficult to take seriously. Most people in this film are cyborgs who look like they were put back together with salvage parts from an old garbage dump. I don't know why this is. Is there a good reason to account for the loss of so many arms and legs in the post apocalyptic aftermath? Perhaps that is simply how this particular vision of a dystopian future was drawn in the many pages of comic book, manga that preceded the movie. Warning: Spoiler alert- stop reading here if you don't want the anticlimactic ending revealed. Seriously here it is! It is possible that you have seen the movie and you still don't know what it all comes down to. So, here we go- Finally, and abruptly, the movie comes to an end leaving me to wonder if ultimately, Alita's battles will be fought in a sports arena since the direct method of going after the bad guys has failed more than once ( she ended up in a garbage dump the first time.) If you want to get to the city in the sky, you have got to win at Motor Ball it would seem and the bad guy, the arch villain, lives in the sky. The good guys were known as the enemies who made all but, this one sky city fall in a great battle. So the bad guys were really the good guys and the truly bad guy is finally revealed. It is all just that simple. So, now we have to wonder if a sequel is even possible given that the movie is a box office flop financially speaking. There is a long way to go break even on the film's ridiculously huge production budget. All the same, people would go and see a sequel. Perhaps if the production cost were kept under control and the sequel were an even better movie than the first, it might just be a win for everyone. I believe it could happen because, you just have to love Alita, sci-fi action and high tech CGI. Tell me that you can look into her big anime eyes and tell her no. We love you Alita! Forget world hunger, forget about the whales, put aside deforestation and plastic drinking straws. Just please, please, save this movie and its unborn sequel. It is probably all we got left.