Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017) by Boras — 11 Apr 2017

As a fan of the manga and the whole anime series (1198, 2015, GITS SAC 1&2, Solid State Society, Arise 1-4 and Rising, well all I can say is: NO.

This movie is horrible. I give 1.5 point to photography, the only excellence in this movie, and 1.5 to Johansson, so much criticized (by me too) but in the end, the only valid thing in the movie. now, the bad things...too many to say.

1st, Director: my uncle Ben could direct this film better. It is unbelievable how action scene of 1998 are still better than a 2017 movie (with class A spending budget). Most of the action scenes are from a B movie, really, really disappointing how you can see magnificent images and so poor sequences.

2) Content: guys, if you have tons of material to choose from, don't try to put everything in the same movie, the result will be messy, trivial and with no logical connection. that what happened here, too much content at the same time = confusion, lack of depth.

3) Meaning: the whole meaning of Ghost in the Shell has been revisited in a naive, stupid, and worse, already passed argument about human life and Artificial Intelligence. That is NOT the main point of Ghost in The Shell: the point is Evolution of Sentient Being, from Individualities embodied in phisical sentient being, from Neural Networks where Identities melt into virtual new form of collective intelligences. That's one of the real point to be discussed, the loss of identity, the evolution of human being beyond physical bodies, the possibility of losing our own identity in order to transcend human body limitations. I am really surprised of how the production can spend so badly a class A budget for such a bad movie. I will forget this exist. forever.