I’m cybernetically scarred—emotions fried like exposed wiring—after Alita: Battle Angel 2. Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron didn’t just reboot the 2019 cult blaze ($405M on mixed RT 61%); they hurled it into Zalem’s floating abyss for a sequel that’s visually volcanic and thematically titanium!  Rosa Salazar’s Alita? Evolved goddess—her mo-cap grace now laced with berserker rage, eyes blazing as she scales Iron City’s spires to storm the sky-city. Post-Motorball crown and Hugo’s gut-wrenching plunge, Alita reunites with Dr. Ido (Christoph Waltz, paternal firecracker with scalpel-sharp wit) and Hugo’s rebuilt hybrid husk (Keean Johnson, haunted and heroic).

Plot detonates: Nova (Edward Norton, finally unleashed—a silky sadist puppeteering Zalem’s eugenics nightmare) unleashes hunter-warriors to crush the uprising, sparking a rebellion where Alita grapples her URM warlord past (flashbacks? Soul-searing ). Chiren (Jennifer Connelly cameo, redemptive arc slays) and Zapan (Jacked Anderson, cyber-psycho upgrade) return bloodier, while new blood like a rogue Zalem defector (Lupita Nyong’o, electric ally) amps the found-family frenzy.

Fights? Orgasmic overdrive: that 20-minute Zalem zero-G arena brawl, practical rigs twisting with Weta’s god-VFX—blades sparking on nano-skin, slow-mo dismemberments that pulse like a second heart. The finale siege on Nova’s spire? A symphony of plasma volleys and hand-to-circuit carnage, syncing to Junkie XL’s thunderous score—erhu wails over dubstep drops that’ll rattle your ribs. Themes carve deep: identity in the machine age, class warfare from scrapheap to stratosphere—honors the manga without pandering, outpacing the original’s cliffhanger tease. $1.2B global rampage, RT 88% raves “Salazar’s supernova sequel,” burying development hell (Avatar delays be damned). Not flawless (mid-act exposition lags), but it’s cyberpunk catharsis—Alita’s “I’m more than my parts” roar? Eternal echo. Who’s modding up for part 3?

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