The trailers made the movie look like an average 3 out of 5 star film at best so the fact it’s not warmly recieved by the critics doesn’t surprise me. I secretly hoped it would be one of the surprise “successes” of the year but I have seen it on many “movies likely to flop in 2019” lists. Such a shame, the cyborg designs look great - maybe a cult favourite in years to come perhaps?
I’ll always have the OVA but much like that it appears as if we’ll only ever get to read the continuation of these characters and not see it on screen.
At least we’ll get a nice looking figure out of it I guess.
Empire magazines review summary:
“Best enjoyed for the fun, slick action and the astonishing, super-expressive realisation of Alita herself, because elsewhere it’s cyberpunk business as usual, marred by some sloppy plotting” 3 out of 5 (and they’ve been on a massive pro female protagonist thing for a few years now so they’re likely being generous)
I’ll always have the OVA but much like that it appears as if we’ll only ever get to read the continuation of these characters and not see it on screen.
At least we’ll get a nice looking figure out of it I guess.
Empire magazines review summary:
“Best enjoyed for the fun, slick action and the astonishing, super-expressive realisation of Alita herself, because elsewhere it’s cyberpunk business as usual, marred by some sloppy plotting” 3 out of 5 (and they’ve been on a massive pro female protagonist thing for a few years now so they’re likely being generous)
I agree, sad that we never got a netflix dredd series with urban. 
