Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Country: US/IND/HK/CHI/CAN
Technical: col 107m
Director: Rupert Sanders
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Synopsis:
In a city of the future, where humans regularly indulge in A.I. upgrades, a high-ranking officer in the security services is the first successful A.I. unit with a human soul, the result of a near fatal crash and cutting edge robotics sponsored by the state. When robots infiltrate and liquidate an international robotics symposium, she becomes aware of another soul like hers in the ethernet, while flashbacks from her past intrude as glitches in her system.
Review:
A live-action remake of a 1995 anime, this retains its manga associations in some of its iconography and Miss Johansson's cleverly cross-cultural makeup, but at the same time its other derivatives make it uncomfortably reminiscent of Robocop and Blade Runner, not to mention the star's roles in Lucy and Black Widow. It makes the old point well enough that the human element is not a weakness but a virtue, and the cityscape is perfectly rendered, but perhaps we have all been here once too often before.
Country: US/IND/HK/CHI/CAN
Technical: col 107m
Director: Rupert Sanders
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Synopsis:
In a city of the future, where humans regularly indulge in A.I. upgrades, a high-ranking officer in the security services is the first successful A.I. unit with a human soul, the result of a near fatal crash and cutting edge robotics sponsored by the state. When robots infiltrate and liquidate an international robotics symposium, she becomes aware of another soul like hers in the ethernet, while flashbacks from her past intrude as glitches in her system.
Review:
A live-action remake of a 1995 anime, this retains its manga associations in some of its iconography and Miss Johansson's cleverly cross-cultural makeup, but at the same time its other derivatives make it uncomfortably reminiscent of Robocop and Blade Runner, not to mention the star's roles in Lucy and Black Widow. It makes the old point well enough that the human element is not a weakness but a virtue, and the cityscape is perfectly rendered, but perhaps we have all been here once too often before.
Country: US/IND/HK/CHI/CAN
Technical: col 107m
Director: Rupert Sanders
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Synopsis:
In a city of the future, where humans regularly indulge in A.I. upgrades, a high-ranking officer in the security services is the first successful A.I. unit with a human soul, the result of a near fatal crash and cutting edge robotics sponsored by the state. When robots infiltrate and liquidate an international robotics symposium, she becomes aware of another soul like hers in the ethernet, while flashbacks from her past intrude as glitches in her system.
Review:
A live-action remake of a 1995 anime, this retains its manga associations in some of its iconography and Miss Johansson's cleverly cross-cultural makeup, but at the same time its other derivatives make it uncomfortably reminiscent of Robocop and Blade Runner, not to mention the star's roles in Lucy and Black Widow. It makes the old point well enough that the human element is not a weakness but a virtue, and the cityscape is perfectly rendered, but perhaps we have all been here once too often before.