Introduction
In the year 2027, a year following the end of the non-nuclear World War IV, a bomb has gone off in Newport City, killing a major arms dealer who may have ties with the mysterious 501 Organization. Public Security official Daisuke Aramaki hires full-body cyber prosthesis user and hacker extraordinaire, Motoko Kusanagi, to investigate.
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Audience reviews
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tyler_dbz
Ghost in the Shell, the new movie — stupid name — is the conclusion to the Arise series. Now, the previous few installments in the Arise series left me a bit mixed. I found them really boring, hard to understand, and they didn't add a lot to the characters in this new established world. These previous installments made it harder to justify the existence of the Arise series, apart from some new character designs and a younger Motoko. So I was looking forward to maybe a satisfying conclusion to it all in a cinematic format.
The result is a very boring, generic action movie with a disjointed narrative that tries its hardest to win over the hearts of fans, but just fails miserably.
I'll start off with some positives. The action does look nice. Everything looks fine in this film, but especial…
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Another dumb series of poorly strung together action set pieces playing out pretty much the exact same plot framework of every iteration of this series. Zero characters, all plot devices, most all behaving out of character for this series. Zero meaningful character dialogue beyond pointless exposition.
Starts off with a big dumb pointless action set piece and pretends like it matters because 'all according to keikaku' before actually starting the plot with a completely unrelated plot point: a pointlessly over-complicated bomb murder mystery in a series where literally everyone can at any moment be hacked into a plot device. Fuck am good at righting.
They already pointlessly threw away all suspense about who the puppet master is earlier in the series, making the central plot of the movie…
Read at the sourceBriareoss
First of all, everything you say about one installment of the Arise-Series, automatically applies to all the other installments, cause all of them follow the same lame ass blueprint. So that being said, there is no need to differ between the 5 entries (and the movie).
So, here we have another true Tow Ubukata Screenplay. You can recognize that garbage only 2 minutes in, cause NOTHING makes any sense or is well sceneraized. Just like any other Tow Ubukata Screenplay, we have randomly thrown together scenes, that don't make sense on their own, yet alone any sense withe the original manga. One random occasion after another, trying to fool you into thinking you just watched the deepest shit ever. But you really didn't. Things just appear and then go away. No content whatsoever. The characters…
Read at the sourceJCPhoenix
Lacking much of the philosophical aspects the series had traditionally had. Very much just an action flick, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just that, I expect more from the GitS series. Even the "Arise" series -- which is probably the weakest of all GitS -- had some of the philosophical and meta things that really makes the series interesting.
Storywise, thought it was a little convoluted. Was hard to follow who was fighting who and for what reason. Not even really sure the ending really explained any of that. Though, perhaps, it was left that way for future releases.
Some of the English voice acting was jarring. Not sure why, but Chief Aramaki's voice actor has been replaced. And the voice doesn't fit him at all. Same goes with some of the other team members. The voice acting just…
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Not bad! If you’re a fan of the ARISE series, this is a nice way of capping it off. It’s as convoluted and scientific psycho-babble as that series, and the original GITS series and movies too. I suppose if you were expecting something as revolutionary, or at least a cult hit, like the original GITS movie, you’d be disappointed. It’s more of an engaging sci-fi intrigue ride, rather than a head turner. Animation was fantastic, and the action scenes were high quality, as you’d expect from the franchise. I can certainly see people’s disappointment in this movie, but if you’re a GITS fan overall it’s worth the watch. If anything, you’ll get some cheeky retro continuity at the end too. To be honest, it makes me want to re-watch the Stand Alone Complex series again! As someone who’s seen every GI…
Read at the sourceLightFlame
When I got to the end of the movie, could see the link between this and the first GITS movie. It was then that several things made more sense, and this was perhaps the movie which made the most sense to me (who is not a hardcore fan and all).
Ghost in the Shell always excites me with the massive amount of depth comes because of the inherent setting of their world. I must say, that this kind of designing of a storyline is one of a kind and that is something I would remember this franchise for.
Especially when it comes to futuristic genres, where the setting consists of sophisticated robots and lightning fast computers that blow away our minds, it is super important to get things right (I mean the story) because say all you want, in the end it's pure fantasy although I hope I am proven wro…
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What is it that makes us "human" and distinguishes us from machines that, quite convincingly, appear to look and act like us?
We continue to explore this question in GiTS 2015, which begins with a nostalgic flashback scene of Major Kusanagi's childhood, when she began her relationship with Kurts under the falling cherry blossom petals...
AND THEN, we are thrown into the excitement, continuing the unsatisfying ending of GiTS: Arise as the Fire Starter Virus and Ghost Hacking are coupled with a horrendous assassination of the Prime Minister and Kurts, the "greatest event since the War". Excellent action from the [then] fledgling Section 9 is present as they work together like gears in a machine to unravel the truth behind the assassination and suspicious events in Niihama. GiTS 2015 conta…
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