Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017) by Regina P — 12 Sep 2017

It wasn't a bad movie; it just wasn't all that engaging. I don't know who came up with these ideas first, but I saw so many other movies in this story: Matrix, Inception, self/less, Robocop, Minority Report, and Skyfall. And that's why this movie was so bleh to me-- been there, saw that. Perhaps it was fresh when the original was made, but it's not fresh anymore.

Plus, the whole language thing was distracting. Her bosses spoke to her in Japanese, but she spoke in English. I guess that's because the scientist who created her was European? But her brain is still Japanese, so it still doesn't jive. They were trying too hard to keep both cultures-- the culture of the source material and the culture of the cinematic audience. Why not just put the whole story in an American city? I can see why people had issues with it. The boycott was so successful that I couldn't even go watch the movie after a few weeks. It was gone. I had to wait until it came to on-demand.