Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Most people think so. 82% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 57%, but audiences disagreed.

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. Wikipedia ↗

Alita: Battle Angel is a 2019 American cyberpunk action film directed by Robert Rodriguez, produced by James Cameron, based on Yukito Kishiro's manga series. Rosa Salazar stars, through performance capture, as Alita, a deactivated cyborg discovered in a scrapyard beneath the floating city of Zalem by Dr. Dyson Ido, played by Christoph Waltz, who rebuilds her with a new body.

Alita awakens with no memory of her past but discovers she possesses extraordinary combat abilities linked to a lost martial art called Panzer Kunst. As she explores the gritty Iron City and falls in love with a street-smart young man named Hugo, Alita uncovers her true identity as a legendary warrior from a centuries-old conflict. James Cameron had been developing the adaptation for nearly two decades before passing the directorial reins to Rodriguez, and the resulting film showcased groundbreaking visual effects — Alita's photorealistic face, with enlarged anime-inspired eyes rendered through performance capture of Salazar's expressions, was the most technically complex digital human face created for film at that time.

The Motorball gladiatorial sequence was a spectacular showcase of the film's kinetic action choreography. Alita earned $405 million worldwide on a $170 million budget, falling short of the sequel-justifying return Cameron and Rodriguez had hoped for despite passionate fan advocacy.