She uses the brain of a young woman that lost her parents in a cyber attack as subject of a prototype. An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. How different is the 2017 film from the 1995 original. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Alita Battle Angel (Bilingual) [4K UHD + 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy], Ready Player One (Bilingual) [Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital]. Solid action and overall good effects.

Hmm... being very familiar with the Ghost in the shell canon of work, (3 Manga volumes, The original animated film, the second animated film (innocence), Anime of 52 episodes (Ghost in the shell & Ghost in the shell 2nd gig), 3 animated films based on the series (Laughing man, individual eleven and solid state society), 4 animated films in the Arise series, plus an additional film hanging off the end of the Arise series), I struggled with the plot as it seemed to bounce around the several different parts of the entire canon of work, which caused me some cognitive dissonance as the story did not develop as I expected based on existing works and the way that the title character is referred to a "major" as opposed to "THE major" drives me nuts. There is an otherwordly quality to Johansson's acting and it fits well with the movie. Scarlett Johansson does not disappoint, and in spite of the criticisms about the lack of diversity, I found the cross cultural settings to be done well and sensitively. A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Johansson remains ever watchable, actions sequences are interesting, etc. A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell. Take a look back at Ghost in the Shell star Scarlett Johansson's career in photos and check out some of our favorite cinematic cyborgs. 230 of 302 people found this review helpful. ?

I absolutely loved the Ghost in the Shell animated series and movies, the two original animated movies and all of the manga (the original that started it all and the manga for SAC). Previous page of related Sponsored Products. Scarlett was very good in the role and support performances should also be applauded. Amazon.ca - Buy Ghost in the Shell (2017) at a low price; free shipping on qualified orders. The story was told well and flowed nicely, the other characters were padded out nicely and you had the beginnings of a good sense of chemistry between characters before the movie felt like it came to an abrupt end. It looked 'pretty' and not just because of the lead Actress Scarlett Johansson (who has a very odd walk throughout, almost like she is imitating a male). Had some controversy about whitewashing - seems to be a theme that hovers around these days. A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. Interesting concept, nice action sequences, and portrayed well by Scarlett. Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Pilou Asbæk, Michael Pitt, Chin Han, Great film plagued by politics and lack of creative indepedence. A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early. We work hard to protect your security and privacy.

(2017). One of these items ships sooner than the other. but for me the real star is design -costumes, robots, cityscape. For someone who is not familiar with that world, the movie itself is, as I said, really entertaining. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

This is a futuristic science fiction movie that shows the creative and yet controlling nature of man and how when things don’t always turn out as expected violence and betrayal is usually the result. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Fast, FREE delivery, video streaming, music, and much more. It's gorgious, colorful, amazing and the plot and the end are not so predictable than expected. Although I can now understand the fans and their critical point of view, after all they know a lot more than I do, if you never read the books, if you are not aware of that world, the movie might bring you into something completly different about our possible futur and even wake the desire to know more about it : were did it start and were will it go. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Based on future concepts that might not be understood by all. Use the HTML below. She needs to use a medicine to help the integration of her brain with the mechanical body and has no recollections of her previous life. However, I did very much enjoy what I watched and would probably give it another watch in the near future. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I love Scarlett Johansson for the varied roles she is willing to try.

I again went into this with very little expectation, I had seen the original Anime and am normally against Western live action remakes. I saw it at the cinema and loved it so much that I got it on Blu-ray, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2017. In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. A real person action sci-fi film based on a popular Anime series of the same name. Competent sci-fi adaptation of the 1995 japanime classic. What I saw was an action packed, dark Sci-fi film, with humour that has a great meaningful story and fantastic special effects. Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander), the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West) disappeared. Please try again. Ghost In The Shell inspired much of the cyber punk and existential sci-fi in the 90's and early 2000's (The Matrix for one). In the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner. Best approached with an open mind if you are already a fan of GITS, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2018. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. This barely touches on the core themes of the original, it is hollow, beautiful, but hollow.