Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017) by Lordx51 — 03 Apr 2017

Amazing! They improved on the story so much. I love how the Major has an actual back story now and you can get behind the philosophical contents of her struggle. I feel like they did a great job of improving and maturing the story, so that its less about "wow isn't this setting and idea just so awesome" and married that to a more human, digestible and complete narration.

The movie ended up being really the opposite of what some naysayers thought it would be - it added substance to complete LORE and the franchise that is GIT, IMO. The animation was so cool for the time, but focused more on the idea of how awesome the animation and the world that animation represented was (in part because we hadn't realized in the real world some of those ideas yet - we have now they aren't as fantastical anymore).

The movie added the human element and made the mystery of the "puppet master" make more sense as well. Scarlet was of course awesome, bad ass and as cute as ever. Watching the anime last night we were reminded, the Major doesn't look Asian and neither does most of her team (just Togusa and the man in charge).

Yet they did a good job of explaining as well why she does look they way she does. Special effects were cool and there were multiple scenes that were direct transfers from the anime that made me smile.

The closing scene is freaking awesome. They even played the original opening song from the anime for the credits. Loved it.