‘Creepy’ sci-fi movie savaged on release becomes Netflix hit 5 years later

A sci-fi enactment movie produced and co-written by James Cameron that was slammed by immoderate critics connected merchandise is present a streaming hit.

The movie from 2019 has precocious been added to Netflix, wherever it instantly soared into the platform’s planetary Top 10 database of most-viewed titles and has been watched 10,100,000 times already.

Alita: Battle Angel was added connected November 8, and with conscionable 10 days of viewing figures disposable has racked up 20.7million hours watched.

It is presently down hunky snowman Christmas movie Hot Frosty connected the chart, in the fig 1 spot with 16m views, arsenic good arsenic fellow festive fave Meet Me Next Christmas.

The cyber-punk enactment movie acceptable successful the twelvemonth 2563, directed by Robert Rodriguez, starred Rosa Salazar successful a motion-capture show arsenic the titular CG-rendered cyborg, who wakes up successful a caller assemblage with nary representation of her past, which she sets retired to uncover.

Based connected Yukito Kishiro’s manga bid Gunnm, the movie was archetypal announced successful 2003 with Titanic filmmaker James Cameron slated to nonstop but faced galore delays owing to his commitments with the Avatar franchise.

Eventually cameras started rolling successful 2016 with Rodriguez astatine the helm instead.

Alita: Battle Angel besides starred Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Rebel Moon’s Ed Skrein, Jackie Eearle Haley and Keean Johnson.

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Upon release, the movie saw immoderate success, managing to gross $405m worldwide connected a reported fund of $170m, mostly acknowledgment to its planetary fanbase.

However, critics were little than benignant to it upon release, calling it ‘frustrating’, a ‘massive misfire’ and ‘total codswallop’, arsenic good arsenic branding its motion-capture main quality ‘undeniably creepy’.

‘Screenwriter James Cameron and manager Robert Rodriquez’s long-in-the-making adaptation of a fashionable manga feels wobbly, worked-over and mode past its sell-by date,’ wrote Peter Travers for Rolling Stone. ‘It looks acceptable to rock, but there’s nary beingness near successful the party.’

Metro’s two-star reappraisal of the ‘half-baked’ movie observed: ‘While the visuals are apical notch, the communicative is simply a hodgepodge of subject fabrication tropes thrown together, promising a large communicative for the sequels but not giving america a crushed to attraction close now.’

It besides called Alita: Battle Angel ‘a franchise starter that looks bully but lacks humanity’.

The movie has managed to scrape a 61% people connected reappraisal aggregator tract Rotten Tomatoes from critics, but it has fared acold amended among fans, with a immense 91% rating.

Cameron has besides acknowledged helium is moving connected Alita sequels previously, during a July 2023 nonfiction with Forbes.

It focused connected the merchantability of his costal ranch successful California, with the 70-year-old manager explaining his family’s determination to enactment their location connected the market.

‘On Avatar, I’m moving successful Wellington and Los Angeles. And connected the new Alita: Battle Angel films, I’ll beryllium moving successful Austin, truthful it conscionable didn’t marque consciousness for america anymore.’

Alita: Battle Angel is streaming connected Netflix successful the UK now.

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