When are they going to learn? These people created Dinosaurs and had to flee the island because they were scared that Dinosaurs were being dinosaurs and eating people. But when the dinosaurs realised they did not want to be caged dinosaurs anymore, and they realised they had their freedom, the dinosaurs decided to do what dinosaurs do, and that is, be a dinosaur. And yet, these people decided to go back to the island with two dozen different species of Dinosaurs to hopefully obtain the key to what? Immortality? Longer Life? The ability to grow limbs back? To become a half-human half half-dinosaur hybrid? Whatever the movie will tell us as to why they need to head back to the land of dinosaurs being dinosaurs, this sure looks entertaining and frightening.
The trailer starts with a guy pleading for his life as he is trapped in a containment room with a dinosaur. They reference the first movie and that the Dinosaurs there are likely the worst ones, but they need an egg to save millions of lives. Scarlett Johansson is doing the sensible thing, saying that they need to be quick bout going about what they came to do, before the parent dinosaur comes back, but the kick she gave the dinosaur was hilarious. Then we have a signalling flare moment like in the first movie that looks epic with TWO TIMES, Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. The line about the Dinosaur finding them rather than them finding it is hilarious, but that boat scene with the harpoon gun and the dinosaur is free-willying it up because they definitely need a bigger boat, which probably wouldn't help anyway, is absolutely tension-filled. I don't believe I saw the last one, didn't really care for it, and it slipped passed me, but I think I am definitely interested in watching this one when it arrives.
This film seemed to be going through all types of hell in
order to be put onto screen.James
Cameron wanted a specific look to this movie and to also enforce a “gimmick” with
the help of Robert Rodriguez to tell the story of Battle Angel: Alita, I mean,
Alita: Battle Angel, and with their sensibilities together, produced and directed a film
that I, actually, well…really enjoyed!
After a major war known as “The Fall”, society is split with those who live at the
top in the City of Zalem and those who live at the bottom in what is known as
the Iron City, a junkyard dumping ground.Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz), whilst in a junkyard, finds a disembodied female Cyborg
and decides to put her together and name her Alita (Rosa Salazar).Now discovering a whole new world, the people
in it and the life or death competitive sport of Motorball, Alita stumbles
across the person responsible for the murders of innocent women and instinctively
engages into a fight which allows her to remember old memories of a previous
life she had and rediscover her unique fighting style.
With a passion for fighting and feeling invincible, Alita decides to join the
hunter warriors and enters the brutal game of Motorball to help send her friend,
Hugo (Keean Johnson) up to the City of Zalem, but when Grewishka (Jackie Earle Haley), a huge cyborg is out to
kill her, requested by Nova by way of Vector (Mahershala Ali), and now that there is a bounty
on Hugo’s head, set by an assassin named Zapan (Ed Skrein), it is up to Alita to go toe-to-toe
with those out to kill her and her friend whilst trying to unlock the secrets
of her hidden past.
I enjoyed this movie as I went in with zero expectations
having seen possibly only 2 trailers and I just wanted to see it as it looked
cool.One of my thoughts whilst watching
the movies was “When are they doing Akira?” As Akira is one of my favourite
Manga movies from back in the day and I would love to see it.
I don’t have any complaints about this movie as I knew what I was getting when
I was going in, in regards to the big eyes, which actually wasn’t THAT
bad.Maybe if the eyes were even bigger,
then it would have been more distracting than it already was, so it wasn't that bad.And although the story of a person with missing memories and hidden
talents is done to death and old, it was great to see in this movie, as it also reminded
me of the old Geena Davis movie, ‘A Long Kis Goodnight” (I love that film). The film also had similarities to Elysium.
At one stage, I kept asking myself, why does everyone have a missing arm? But then
I started to see more cyborgs and when it came to the Motorball sport, I was introduced to even
more cyborgs which broadened the world even more than it already was.I can’t go into too much of the story without
giving away plot points or parts of the story, but we only see a small part of
Alita’s story with what is obviously set up for even more movies, because everyone
wants to do a Franchise! With that said though, this is something I would love
to see how deep and far they will go into the world of Alita as what I saw, I
really enjoyed and I never watched the manga or read the comics
The acting was great and the CGI and special effects were quite phenomenal. You
can’t really expect anything less from James Cameron, you know. I even saw this in 3D and sometimes 3D can be off-putting or distracting...it wasn't this time around. But I’d suggest that if you want to see more
films like this, then this film will need to get supported or films like Akira,
Attack on Titan and other Anime/Manga, just won’t get done….especially with
their worlds being soo vast and great.I
think Robert and James did a good one with this one and I definitely want more.
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