Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell is a 2017 American science fiction action film featuring the near future where a human saved from a terrible crash, is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier solely to eradicate the world's most dangerous criminals.
2 March 1982, Copenhagen, Denmark
27 November 1969, Singapore
21 January 1958, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
April 21, 2017
It's all visual panache with no true dramatic weight. Maybe there's a richer story occurring in the corners of the screen; perhaps the film plays better with the sound off.
March 31, 2017
It gets bogged down in aesthetics that are stimulating only for the sake of stimulation, seemingly without a flicker of thought behind them. Shell indeed, but there's no ghost at home.
March 31, 2017
It only works up much feeling when it is trying to defend itself against protests that might affect its bottom line. You won't be much moved by that either.
April 18, 2017
You're not going to have a bad time at the cinema, just don't expect to feel that those who created this beautiful work, want to flatter, beyond nostalgia, your intelligence. [Full review in Spanish]
April 26, 2017
Visually enticing but not necessarily engaging.
April 03, 2017
Sadly, as the plot proceeds, Sanders begins to duck ... bothersome concepts. He picks a more sentimental path, which leads Major, following the example of Jason Bourne, on a quest to discover who she truly is.
March 31, 2017
A flimsy copy of a copy, one that recreates some of the anime's set-pieces nearly shot for shot, but then pares away nearly everything else that made the original a classic.
April 24, 2017
It reduces the philosophical quest for understanding of what it means to be human to a very familiar trope: the search for a former identity. Essentially, the Major is now Jason Bourne - or, more precisely, Robocop, by way of Frankenstein's monster.
March 31, 2017
Ghost in the Shell is visually compelling but tone deaf.
April 13, 2017
Its frenetic whiz-bang technology favors style over substance - and the uproar over casting a Caucasian actress in an iconic Japanese story is understandable.
March 31, 2017
It's unfortunate, if predictable, that Hollywood found it necessary to almost entirely eliminate deep think in favor of deep action.
