Film long before the premiere "Alita: Battle Angel" caused considerable skepticism, which is the smallest two reasons. Firstly, the film adaptation is a genre, even worse than the adaptation of video games. Even the Japanese cannot master it, to say about Americans and other Hijings. "Apdi-panter" , "Dragon Pearls: Evolution" , "Ghost in armor" – All attempts were crowned by failure, both creative and financial. Secondly, we admit the obvious-Robert Rodriguez has long been not in form. Yes, "Machete" He was a completely perky and bloody cabbage, but his continuation seemed already tortured and unnecessary. Just like the second "City of sins". And the squalor called "Children of Spies 4D" Everyone seems to have decided to just forget how an unsuccessful draw.
At the same time, the creators of the “Battle Angel” had a good argument in his defense – participation in the project of the great inventor James Cameron, who dreamed “Alita” from the zero. Employment is already four "Avatars" did not allow him to put the film personally, but the author "Terminator" managed to write a script and speak the producer of the picture.
Total two minuses per plus. How did this formula work? I must admit, in a very unexpected way.
Paradise is not on earth
XXVI century. The land barely recovered from a destructive war with Mars, raging three centuries ago. The remnants of mankind are huddled in an iron city, dirty and dangerous. The metropolis was erected around a giant landfill, where the waste from Zallum – an impregnable monastery of the elite are discarded.
Once among the Mountain Mountains, a Robototechnik Ido finds a cyborg broken into the trash with a big -eyed girl. Out of pity and scientific interest, he takes him to his workshop, represents and gives a name – Alita. The miracle of technology is not only reasonable and subtly sensitive, but also unusually strong. Hand -to -hand combat skills in the cyberseches are so well developed that it can be disassembled with naked hands by part of the thugs, and this is clear during the first brawl in the slums. But where did such power come from – and how so perfect the car was in a landfill?
You get used to the enormous eyes of Alita for two minutes, and then this detail, over which they mocked on the network, no longer distracts
Let's start with the main one – "Alita" looks amazing. This, without a doubt, is the most colorful and visually rich film in the entire career of Rodriguez (except for echoing opus for children). And it’s not even a schedule – if you wish, you can find fault with it (for example, the faces of the actors, confined to robotales, sometimes look terribly unnatural). The point is the general style and the abundance of details. Cyberpunk and post -apocalypse are interwoven in the iron city. DRAILE SKYLOV shine with burnt windows, robots-tanks walk along the dusty streets, and every second inhabitant has some bizarre prosthesis.
All -metal shell
Cyborgs – generally works of art. The design of any character allows you to make an idea of his character. For example, the first body of Alita seems to be made of porcelain and covered with floral ornaments – it is immediately clear that we have a tender creation. The Dan’s head hunter looks like a fighter Yakuza painted by tattoos, which is Coral Casino sister sites not far from the truth, and the mercenary of Nissian-for some terrible insect is akin to the pilgrimage. I directly want to crush it – which is what is happening to the delight of the viewer (no spoilers, it was in the trailer). Futurism will fail only when in the frame appear characters-people. T -shirts, jackets, coats, hats – have the fashion has not changed in five hundred years?
Action in Alita is also on top. Fights are swift, beautiful, stunningly set and at the same time cruel. Rodriguez found an elegant way to circumvent the restrictions on the PG-13 rating: the blood of the cyborgs is blue, which means that it is not necessary to grind it. Yes, and you can not worry about the dismemberment, so Alita without hesitation cuts, breaks and flatters the enemies. The pursuit of the Motorbol arena – the main sports competition in the Iron City is one of the most exciting and adrenaline scenes of recent years. It's funny that Rodriguez actually quoted his own "Children of Spies 3D" , but at a completely different technological and directorial level. As there are few complaints about the director to him: from the material he squeezed out the maximum.
Either people, or dolls
Summed, paradoxically, it was Cameron. Together with the co -author of Laeta Kalogridis, he gave out an extremely weak script that literally collapses into pieces. It can be seen that the events of several volumes of manga tried to shove in one film. But the source is a series where the main plot develops slowly, interspersing with fillers for one or two releases. That’s why the full -length “Alita” does not seem to be a whole work, but with white threads cuts from bright episodes.
The fact that James Cameron was not at all opposed to the shut -up stamps, it was still clear in the Avatar. Here in the "combat angel" there are just a lot of them. Alita herself-a little more than the cybernetic "Mary-Su". It is the coolest from the very beginning, and therefore everything turns out if not on the first attempt, then from the second for sure. Become the best bustle hunter – with half. Win the championship in motorbells – clicking fingers. To unwind the most powerful criminal syndicate of an iron city – yes, it is better to let them jump out of the window themselves. At the same time, the alita almost does not develop as a character. Having lost the only time, she takes revenge not because she grew up above herself or looked at the problem from a different angle – no, she just pumped, received a technical upgrade.
The heroine Jennifer Connelli had to be deep and contradictory, but it turned out to be superficial and inconsistent
Rosa Salazar is beautiful in the title role, and the digital makeup really makes the character more expressive. I want to watch her, especially when she only gets acquainted with the gloomy and in her own attractive iron city. But on one of her charm, the film cannot be pulled out, and the heroes are not helped. Talents of Oscar -winning Mahershals Ali and Christophe Valtz disappear. The vector came out one of the most primitive and inconspicuous villains of recent years, and Dr. IDO is needed exclusively in order to issue an exposition. The only scene with his participation, capable of provoking emotions in the viewer, bewitched by wretched dialogs.
With them in the film is generally trouble. Instead of speaking at least a little human, the characters recite phrases for trailers. Positive-something pathos-diligent (“This world is cruel. We must fight for your dreams "), negative-something pathetic. In manga or anime, this is quite acceptable (and not always), but on the big screen causes yawning.
"Alita" leaves ambiguous impressions. Picture and action in places can cause almost children's delight, but everything else drives back to longing. Yes, probably, of all American film adaptations, this manga is the best. But only against the background of other disasters.
