Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell
NR | 07 February 2017 (USA)
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In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

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Baseshment

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Sameer Callahan

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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Zandra

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Guillelmina

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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ragpap93

This timeless, artistic piece of cinematography still holds in 2017. The main concept is hacking but not just any hacking. It is the hacking of people's minds. People of the future with robotic enhancements. Cyborgs. With all the automation going on why not? Some people are full on robots and they are vulnerable to being hacked by this unknown person or consciousness. Anyway it is abstract and there is little combat action compared to any other action film but it is more realistic that way. That being said there is some intense action in the beginning otherwise it is kind of a slow but with beautiful visuals.

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grantss

It is the year 2029. Technology has advanced so far that cyborgs are commonplace. In addition, human brains can direct to the internet directly. Major Motoko Kasunagi is an officer in Section 9, an elite, secretive police division that deals with special operations, including counter terrorism and cyber crime. She is currently on the trail of the Puppet Master, a cyber criminal who hacks into the brains of cyborgs in order to obtain information and to commit other crimes.Entertaining movie. Intriguing plot with decent development. Good action scenes and great CGI. Covers some interesting themes too, including the theme that always comes in cyborg/robot movies, sentience and what it means to be human.Not brilliant though. Many scenes feel like your average action- thriller at times, with the conventional car chases and the like. The whole sentience theme is nothing new (see Blade Runner, for example) and feels underdeveloped here.Moreover, the ending is quite open-ended and anticlimactic. I was hoping for something more profound, or, at least, conclusive.Good, but not great.

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ay-ce

It's a masterpiece of film, cyberpunk and animation. Stylish, dirty, deep, shallow, melancholy or chaotic it's always engrossing and beautiful. It captures a living complex world so lovingly, with characters and relationships that hide so many details the deeper you delve. Truly a classic piece of futurist art.

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swilliky

The future is strange with robots and brain-hacking in the animated Ghost in the Shell. The film that sparked a life action update over twenty years later begins with Motoko Kusanagi jumping from a building to assassinate a diplomat. She put on a mission to hunt down a hacker known as the Puppet Master. She finds that this hacker is using garbage and other criminals through trickery and mind-hacking to do his bidding. Motoko also copes with her identity as a robot while still trying to do human things like scuba dive. The action of the chases seems pretty cool and I can only imagine what a live action adaption will look like.The artwork in the animation is stunning capturing the look of a manga comic. The English dubbed version I purchased did have some weak voice-acting and an odd look common in these adaptations, which is why I usually try to see these things with subtitles. Questions of humanity and existence are brought up as the Puppet Master claims to be a sentient being with rights despite not having a sole body. Even Major Motoko isn't sure if she is a human with a body bought from a tech company and brain cells input into it. Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

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