knutsindre

Man - was this a 10/10, or what? In some ways I was not aware animation could be this good. At an early point Gwen gives her father a hug, and the colours and art conveyed such an immense flow of emotions that you feel the very heart of the characters right in your own. This movie is beautiful, powerful and a glorious victory for animation.

Gwen and Miles are also wonderful characters wit beautiful interplay. They should portal over to us, and get oscars.

If you are not into animation (like me), this is still worth a watch. I'll be thinking about this movies for a long long time, and find myself anticipating the next one greatly.

Short: Underrated. 9/10 for what is does in this space between animation and acting, and the world it builds. We've come a long way since Roger Rabbit.

Long: This movie feels like a real technical achievement. Seeing it makes me want to know more about the locations and the history it beautifully renders. The light is just spectacular and adds so much to the atmosphere. The liveliness of the acting also truly flows through the CGI on Alita, and creates an amazing sense of watching something unique. You will suspend your disbelief and feel Alita is real, this alone makes the movie worth seeing. The other androids too are masterfully created.

Beyond this, the movie is simply fairly paced and entertaining and tries to send a message about typical "sexy-born-yesterday" characters (I hear this is even more prominent in the manga the movie is based on). I'm not sure it delivers fully on this. This is the thing I wish is that they would have taken even more time to explore, along the relationships, people and locations. I wish the poverty they speak of was more explored as well.

But everyone is a critic. I think you'll like this one however. Or at the very least be fascinated by it.

Like many other recent movies I've seen, I came out of the teather with a feeling that this movie had allot of potential, but got messed up in editing. Or maybe the recent growth is TV/streaming-series has make me more picky on character building.

In summary, Pasific Rim has great concept, excellent effects, decent action, decent pacing, lack of character building and horrible acting by Rinko Kikuchi. Her character could have been good, but it fails to deliver and is simply poorly executed.

It's a good action movie overall, but severely dragged down by bad acting and not taking enough time to get to know the characters involved.