a5c7b9f00b Major Motoko Kusanagi is unique, a human brain implanted in a robot's body. This, the intelligence of a human combined with the physical qualities of a machine, has enabled her to be the ultimate crime fighter. Now she faces her ultimate enemy: Kuze, a criminal who has managed to hack into the brains of androids and control them.
In the near future, Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible terrorist attack, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major Kusanagi is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major Kusanagi discovers that she has been lied to: her life was not saved, it was stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past, find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others.
I should start out by stating I am not a fan of Manga. The closest you will get me to anything remotely Manga-esque is The Animatrix. When it comes to comic book adaptations, my level is Transformers, Marvel, DC and The Crow. Beyond that, I struggle. However, the trailer of Ghost in the Shell interested me greatly, andit seemed to share similarities with both The Matrix, Equilibrium and Blade Runner, I gave it a go.<br/><br/>What this film represents is a enjoyable way of spending nearly 2 hours on a Sunday afternoon. What it doesn't represent is an original and thought provoking cinematic success. There is unfortunately nothing in the film that hasn't been done before - do not watch this film expecting originality.<br/><br/>I am aware that there was much criticism of this film over the casting, and many felt the lead should have been oriental. I don't think this is an issue for the general public, and the film has wider reaching issues than cast. <br/><br/>For instance, it is immediately apparent (to me at least) that the villain of the plot is Cutter. I should point out that I am one of the only people I know who didn't catch on that Bruce Willis was actually dead in "The Sixth Sense", so for me to figure this out so early on is not a positive!<br/><br/>Secondly, the contradiction of futuristic urban settings in Japan with cars based on vehicles that look like they are sourced from 1980s Britain doesn't sit right to me. It's obviously intentional, and whether or not it is born of Hollywood or the original Manga, I don't know, but it didn't work for me. It was is if there was an internal confusion over whether the film is utopian or distopian, andit is clearly both this confusion has become apparent.<br/><br/>Third, the film is supposed to be set in Japan, yet the location is very Hong Kong like (which is no surprisethe film was shot in part in Hong Kong). It felt like Yellowthread street in the future.<br/><br/>All that aside, it IS fun. The opening sequence promises much, and in general cinematography is slick, even though it is not in the same leagueThe Matrix or Equilibrium. The CGI is apparent but does not saturate the moviesomething suchJupiter Ascending does. It's definitely worth a watch, just don't go in with massive expectations.
I am a big fan of the anime movie and series and I admit I did not have the highest expectations for this movie. I still tried to go into it with a neutral mindset though.<br/><br/>I think Scarlet Johansen did a very good jobthe lead character, despite me having doubts about the casting (And not because she isn't Asian). She pulled it off, and most of the other characters were well castwell.<br/><br/>Aesthetically, the movie was well done but the sometimes overdone CGI effects prevented it from having a good cyberpunk ambiance. The giant ads all over the city in particular felt over the top.<br/><br/>The story,expected, was simplified from the original and feltit was lacking depth. I also found the first half of the movie pretty boring but it picked up later on at least, and it had some scenes I liked very much. <br/><br/>In general I found it to be a good movie, just not anywhere close to the anime movie. But fans of the anime or manga would probably still enjoy it if they do not have sky high expectations. For those who have read/seen neither, its probably worth watchingwell.
While it offers some new ideas, the movie also suffers from the same pacing problems of the original.
Several details and approach differ from the original anime. The Ghost in the Shell franchise is based off of a manga (comic), and so the films and series and even video games have all taken creative license from the original source material.<br/><br/>Making a live action film made certain styles and approaches to the physical rendering of the world impractical resulting in many visual differences to the new film that imbue an 80's cyberpunk feel similar to that of Blade Runner.<br/><br/>Another difference is that the storyline is a blend of several of the existing series, and does not follow the same storylinethe original film. Characters and back story are predominantly drawn from Stand Alone Complex 2nd gig, Stand Alone Complex, Arise and the original film.<br/><br/>The degree of violence and swearing in the original film is on a completely different level from the live action film. Creative camera angles obscure the genitals of the characters, and very little swearing is present in the new film.<br/><br/>There is no question that this is a Ghost in the Shell story, but in many ways the philosophy is simplified and the pace is much faster than the original anime. In the Ghost in the Shell stories, the Major has a completely prosthetic body. Although written and published in Japan, the original comic and some of the series show the Major in several bodies, and at times without a body entirely. It is believed by many that the artist's rendering of her prosthetic body was deliberately ambiguous in its ethnicity, while her "ghost" (the spirit that makes up her character) is also of obscure origin. It is assumed thatthe stories largely circulate in the region of Japan and east asia, that her original form was likely Japanese, though the Major speculates at times that she may be synthetic all-together; this is all a part of the philosophy discussed in the stories.<br/><br/>In the live action film, the Major is given a Japanese origin for her ghost.
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