I did enjoy Alita. It was a great big "pkyew-pkyew" sort of a mess, but I did still walk away having had a pretty good time.

Unfortunately, both Alita(the character)'s romantic interest and Alita(the movie)'s romantic plotline I despised. And this aspect took up so much on screen realestate that I could never see my way to giving Alita a glowing score, even if everything else about it had been perfect (it wasn't).

An interesting part of the flim though that I also need to touch on is the special effects. They aren't even close to photorealism, but it honestly still totally works... read the rest.