Ghost in the Shell

2017 "There's nothing sadder than a puppet without a ghost."
6.3| 1h47m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 31 March 2017 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.ghostintheshellmovie.com/
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In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

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jclements-12961 Can't believe Pilou is the same guy from Game of Thrones, I never recognized him!Fabulous movie, nice there are still some movies that aren't remakes.
jimbo-53-186511 After being rescued from near death, Major (Scarlett Johansson) becomes a cyber-enhanced soldier whom a secret government section use to prevent cyber-hacking (amongst other things). When Major discovers that Kuze (Michael Pitt) has set up his own rogue operation to destroy several people in her section she decides to hunt him down. However, when Major eventually tracks down Kuze he tells her a few home truths which make her begin to question who she really is and who she is really working for....It's fair to say that Ghost In The Shell probably borrows quite heavily from a lot of films, but both visually & in the way it presented its world it reminded me a lot of Blade Runner (the way the camera pans round the city and the striking visuals amidst the tower blocks and skyscrapers did feel reminiscent of Blade Runner). Plot wise the films are different (although perhaps with some overlapping). Anyway with that observation out of the way I'll crack on with some further thoughts...To start with the positives; the film looks great and some of the special effects are pretty impressive and the way that Scarlett nicely fills that 'shell' is also hard to ignore, but beyond the superficial I didn't find a great deal about this film that's worthy of much praise to be honest...Despite appearing to be interesting at the start the film soon becomes rather clichéd and obvious; the fact that it seems to contain strands of many science fiction films from yesteryear certainly doesn't do the film any favours. It perhaps wouldn't have been as bad if the film would have either been exciting, fast-paced or fun (which may have acted as a distraction to the obvious plotting) but the truth is that it is none of these things and unfortunately it does take itself far too seriously and the end result is something that is far less worthy than it thinks it is.OK to be fair a serious story told in a serious manner can work, but this can only work if key components exist within the story (such as depth, intrigue and characters that one can care about), but the honest truth is that you get none of this here. For example; there is absolutely no character development afforded to a single character (there is a slight arc with the protagonist, but not really enough to make me care). Hanka Robotics and their experiments aren't elaborated on in any great detail; I think we learn that 98 people have been selected for their programme, but why were these people selected? There is a modicum of intrigue at the start of the film, but this soon becomes dissipated and takes a fairly generic turn. Many of the characters are uninteresting and one-dimensional and the lack of depth afforded to them does make it hard to give a damn about them or anything that happens to them.I'm not really sure what else to say; it's a pretty film with a bit of action and a bit of soul-searching, but it doesn't amount to very much. It never quite falls into the realms of being boring (the director moves things along well enough for it never to get that bad), but at the same time I just had this feeling of indifference about the story and the characters all the way through the film which sadly meant that I didn't find it particularly enjoyable.
Icarus Alexander A good actress? Haven't figured that out. Her breasts look great in that 7 of 9 suit so there's that. As for the movie visually it was cool but the story was nothing original, lactura paucorum serva multo. Had a 'Matrix' feel to it with a splash of 'Hackers'. Hack the planet!
tqv-80835 Hollywood is a junkie that is beyond help and redemption.It is addicted to the drug of remakes and sequels. It is just terrible. Copy/inferior paste, copy/inferior paste, ad nauseam.With 10% originality and story telling left in Hollywood we have to stay home and be rid of this stupidity. Scarlet Johansson, Paul Feig, Jar Jar Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy and the rest of the hacks should just throw in the towel.Man, I cringed for almost two hours trying to get to the end of this DVD. What did it add to the original? Nothing? Exactly. Takeshi Kitano looked like he is cringing right alongside me.