Ghost in the Shell (2017)

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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Everything about this movie is just incredible, from the questions posed about humanity to the stunning animation. True, more things could've been explained, but they don't need to be. I would highly recommend this movie to all fans of sci-fi or animation.

This is one of the most intelligent animations that I have ever seen. It is amazing that it is still relevant and futuristic 20 years later. The level of detail in the animation is exceptional. I will have to watch it a few times to appreciate all of the cinematography. The depth of the blurring between human thought, genetics, Cyber enhancement, computers, networking, AI, and the germ of being is still relevant today.

I, (I guess) controversially, don't think this film is that great. The dialogue is pretty stilted, same with the shots and characters, the music is experimental and interesting but not used appropriately at times (there are moments that would be so effective, if only they cut out the music and allowed the scene to be silent, something they accomplish well during the last fight of the film). Certain shots are gorgeous, but it doesn't take advantage of the medium as well as so many other Anime. The themes are interesting, yet the delivery of them is all in an exposition monologue dump at the end, so it doesn't provoke much of a response throughout. The Blade Runner similarities are really heavy and blatant, and not just the style but the story as well. Side Note: I couldn't find the original language version with subs, so I had to watch the English dub, and the voice actors they got were really bland . Good film, but not sure why it's considered one of the best Anime ever. I think it's because its one of the first Anime to get a lot of western attention since this was '95 and all. Good film, fantastic last 20 minutes, the rest is nothing too special or unique. Give it a watch and make up your own mind :)

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