I will honestly say someone forgot to work on plot and storyline/characters as much as they worked on visuals. I checked out after 2/3 of the movie and cringed through the romance parts. Romance between teenagers was disturbing to say at least... and for all it is - Alita herself is made to look more like a cute lovestruck girl rather than a warrior.
So much for progressive visuals and so little for progressive plot? Oh, and the anime eyes... those have rubbed me in a wrong wAy.
Dialogue is so poor and predictable I felt like watching a cheap soapy teenage drama with mild sexual cyborg-fetish. Characters are flat as a popped tire, CGI gets tiring with time, NOTHING is explained about the world or the plot. Rushed ending. Just a bad, bad, anime adaptation for anyone who’s familiar with the manga. They tried to squeeze in all the story and ended up all over the place. Glad I didn’t spend my hard earned money to rent it.