Alita: Battle Angel is Here to Challenge You

The casual audience-goer who might assume Alita: Battle Angel is a by-the-book female empowerment fare would be sorely mistaken. Alita is not in the same realm of female-protagonist led superhero movies like Patty Jenkins’ juggernaut Wonder Woman. Alita promises to be a different kind of narrative altogether.

A Different Kind of Superhero

Rather than providing audiences with a normalized baseline human point of view – for example,