Alita: Battle Angel seemed destined to become a sci-fi franchise, but it ended after one movie and here is why it never moved ...

The characters spend the entire film droning on and on about Zalem, but we never see it once. At this point “Alita” is a merely mediocre setup to a sequel, but things go haywire fast.

Everyone on Earth wants to go to Zalem, because it’s the promise of a better place; eventually, that promise is revealed to be hollow. Alita is mostly able to become a known figure on Earth by ...

Alita takes place roughly 500 years from now, in the dusty streets of Iron City, a ramshackle junkyard metropolis huddled in the shadow of the flying citadel of Zalem. Ever since a vaguely ...

Alita: Battle Angel is set in the 26th century, 300 years after ‘The Fall’ – a technological fall which led to a war that sent civilisation back to a relative dark age. One high-tech city ...

Alita: Battle Angel, based on Yukito Kishiro ... all but one of Earth’s great floating cities. That last survivor, Zalem, is fueled by the factories of Iron City, and the humans and cyborgs ...

In the very distant future, the floating city of Zalem pours its waste down onto ... are either unclear or completely absent. While Alita is an active main character, she is aimless, naïve ...

Above, the elites live in the last of the great floating metropolises, Zalem. Below ... cyber-body meant for his long-dead daughter, Alita, which of course becomes her name too.