Night Shyamalan's adaptation of the popular animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender true anime, the show was unmistakably influenced by anime and manga in both narrative content and visual presentation. Kite currently has an audience score of 18 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The film has an embarrassing critics' score of 0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic score of 19. But there's something deeply discomforting about his camera's fetishistic leering." "Nasty for nastiness's sake, Kite drags to achieve its brief running time you wonder whether the slow motion is an artistic device or a stalling tactic," observed Ben Kenigsberg for The New York Times, with Elizabeth Weitzman for the New York Daily News noting that "Ziman pretends to be empowering his young heroine by putting a gun in her hand and tough words in her mouth.
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Universally reviled for its exploitative, nasty subject matter and derivative revenge movie tropes, the 2014 film was lambasted by virtually every single professional who covered it upon its initial release. Jackson is also inexplicably in the film's cast. KITE - AVERAGE SCORE: 9.5Īn adaptation of Yasuomi Umetsu's anime series of the same name, Ralph Ziman's Kite tells the story of a young girl who infiltrates a cartel of human traffickers to avenge the murder of her parents while also taking illegal drugs to suppress her more traumatic memories. RELATED: Alita: Battle Angel Super Bowl Trailer Shows Off Cyborg Action 9. Keep in mind that rankings are entirely based on scores by professional critics audience scores for each film have also been included, but are not considered in calculating the average. This ranking was achieved by averaging the critics' scores from review aggregate sites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Similarly, animated feature films, including 2009's Astro Boy, are also not included in the ranking. Adaptations that only received a straight-to-video or limited theatrical release, such as 1995's adaptation of Fist of the North Star or 1991's The Guyver are not included. studios have largely had a spotty track record both in critical and commercial success, so we thought it'd be interesting to generate a comprehensive ranking of all the major Hollywood adaptations of manga and anime to receive a wide theatrical release in the United States. Executive produced and co-written by James Cameron, the cyberpunk movie is the most recent Hollywood film to adapt a popular manga or anime series for North American audiences. Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Yukito Kishiro's popular manga Battle Angel Alita, slightly retitled Alita: Battle Angel, is now in theaters across the globe, and it's performing solidly at the worldwide box office.