Ghost in the Shell 2017

Reviews (19)

1. R

   rudi 8 月 25, 2026

   honestly just mute this movie and enjoy the amazing visuals because that’s all it’s really good for

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2. M

   minick 8 月 25, 2026

   ive been using my employee free pass on everyone who goes to see this movie so it gets no money 😇

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3. S

   SilentDawn 8 月 25, 2026

   5 Leaving the theater last night, having just sat through the excruciating experience of Ghost in the Shelll, I was furious. I wasn’t merely furious at the misconstrued world-building, all imitation and no flair, all dazzling 1990s sci-fi dress-up and no semblance of imagination. I wasn’t simply furious at the tattered remnants of a screenplay and its constant tendency of oversimplification in regards to its existentialism and its gender ambiguity. I wasn’t *only* furious at the incoherent action, cut together with no respect for spatial continuity yet stable in every frame, somehow fucking up staging in large interior environments. It’s all a hair-pulling catastrophe, no doubt, but it’s nothing in comparison to the thought that pundits and fans shared their…

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4. E

   Eli Hayes 8 月 25, 2026

   My primary takeaway from this film is that ScarJo’s haircut makes her look very Elven, & that I would now like to see her play an elf.

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5. C

   Chris 🍉 8 月 25, 2026

   “yeah this movie is whitewashed but it’s also a criticism of whitewashing so its revolutionary… handled so well” (basically what i gathered skimming reviews) why don’t y’all just shut the fuck up and cast rinko kikuchi instead of this boring ass white lmfaoooo

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6. C

   CJ Probst 8 月 25, 2026

   The reviews for this sort of baffle me. What do you want people? I don’t think the negative reviews can be entirely chalked up to the fans of the source material being pedantic, grumpy dorks. I liked the original animated movie and I thought this was a deftly executed adaptation. Adaptations of this kind are incredibly dicey to pull off, just think of all the terribly botched attempts from the past. This is the one you’re going to hate on? Come on. The live-action Ghost in the Shell constructs a wonderfully vibrant futuristic world heavily inspired by Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner as was the original. Towering skyscrapers, congested apartment blocks and enormous holographic advertisements are actualized in a sweeping metropolis…

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7. 🇵

   🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝 8 月 25, 2026

   There are some amazing jackets in Ghost In The Shell. There are at least five that I want to bring your attention to. Now, three of them are worn by Scarlett Johansson. Because it’s dead new, there aren’t many screenshots of this yet, so you’ll have to bear with me. This one is the one she wears for the most part in this and that’s understandable. It’s an excellent bomber jacket that she’s got a great fit for there, and quite similar to one I got from River Island a couple of months ago. I slightly preferred this one though. Admittedly you can only see a part of it, which is a shame, and it looks as though it might…

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8. M

   matt lynch 8 月 25, 2026

   I kind of fell for this right away, such gorgeous affected designer melancholy, and what’s initially clumsy about it (and there’s a lot) also seems deliberately calculated to echo this tantalizingly janky early 90’s vibe, I dunno. I mean Michael Wincott is even in it. Formatting the Major’s transformation from a Japanese woman into Scarlet as an immoral act of aggression may not be sufficient apologia, but it’s certainly not incoherent.

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9. W

   will 8 月 25, 2026

   so are we just going to ignore the fact that a japanese woman was kidnapped and turned into a caucasian robot? this might be the most sinister film i’ve ever seen in my life.

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10. M

    Matt Singer 8 月 25, 2026

    Just after the first action sequence, a voice called out from behind me in the darkened theater: “Damn, that is a bad bitch.”

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11. J

    juliana 8 月 25, 2026

    in the future the subtitles are All Over the Fucking Screen

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12. D

    davidehrlich 8 月 25, 2026

    well… those were definitely some choices.

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13. R

    Reno 2 月 4, 2018

    **Too late to come out to impress its fans!**

    It was not my most anticipated film of the year. Like usual for any film, I just wanted to see it and enjoy it. The film was fine, but that does not mean so good. From the visuals to the performances, it sounded great. But the story wasn’t. When the original concept was created nearly 30 years back, it fascinated people for being something new and powerful. But for the current world, for the current generation, it is just an ordinary sci-fi. All I say is it just came out at least 15 years late. So the 90s kids would have loved it!

    The storyline was nothing, but a self-discovery of a half human, half machine. This has been the plot of hundreds of robot films. But it’s just differently told. One of only kind, a human brain was saved after the severe accident and given an artificial body. Now she’s known as Major fights the crime. But some day later, she’s haunted by glitches in her vision which directly connected to her past that she does not remember. The rest of the film was finding the truth and other consequences, before it all ends.

    Visual effects were the only advantage for this film to come out in the present era. The rest of the film was simply okayish. I don’t know what the original source fans say about it, but it is a one time watchable film. Otherwise, there are plenty of similar good films, like this is nothing much different than ‘Robocop’. Or the recent TV series ‘Westworld’. Scarlett Johansson could become a reason for some people to peek into it. The writing and direction were average. Watch and forget kind of film.

    _5/10_

14. D

    Dark Jedi 8 月 29, 2017

    This is an okay movie but that is about it. The blurb sounded quite interesting and the trailers were promising even though I always take trailers with a huge pinch of salt. I have never read the original Manga. Whether that is good or bad with respect to the movie I do not know.

    The good stuff as far as this movie is concerned is, not surprisingly, the visuals. I would not say that they are stunning but the are quite good. The environments are interesting and the special effects are not bad at all. I have to say that the tank design was pretty poor though. Not very exiting as a fictional design and utter nonsense from a functional point of view.

    This is as far as the good stuff goes. The story is okay but it is pretty predictable and not that much to get exited about. It could have been more developed for sure. I would actually have liked to see the Major do a few more missions beating up the bad guys. That was where the movie shined a bit and showed the best visuals and special effects.

    The acting is pretty mediocre to be honest. Even Daisuke Aramaki, which was a character that I did like, felt rather bland. The main bad guy was just a uninspiring thug.

    To me the movie more or less felt like the pilote episode of a TV-show with a huge budget for visuals. It was not WOW god but showed promise and I felt like I would like to see more “episodes”. The fact that it is actually a movie and it seems unlikely that a sequel, even though the ending makes it pretty clear that they hoped there would be one, will be made left me with a unsatisfied feeling.

    Bottom line, average movie with enjoyable visuals and special effects but one which do not manage to reach above the “just another sci-fi manga movie” segment for me.

15. T

    tmdb81799156 7 月 27, 2017

    I was unable to make it to the theaters for this one due to traveling for work those first two weeks. And then it was gone; couldn’t find it in any theaters. I’m sure glad I didn’t waste my money for that and only spent $1.62 to rent it from RedBox.
    The trailer didn’t show much, which is good. I hate trailers that give away everything about a movie.
    So, a hot girl is always good…
    And it had the teaser nudity that isn’t real but is a suit – I’ll let you be the judge of that.
    The rest is the same old overused nonsense from all other science fiction movies:
    A lot of fighting, shooting, explosions and destruction – way too much of that… but just about all sci-fi and superhero movies these days only contain that.
    The first hour was incredibly boring. After about 70 minutes, it got just slightly interesting and then all the fighting/shooting/destruction began. There is nothing interesting about that – we’ve all see that hundreds of times. It’s ridiculous.
    Why can’t any of these shooters hit anything? We still have that. It isn’t interesting to watch. Thousands of rounds flying and everyone missing their target. With all this high tech stuff, why don’t they have more advanced weapons?
    I have to say, I was in Arizona earlier this year and fired a handgun for the very first time. It was a 6-shooter, a Colt “Peacemaker”, you know the pistol of the “West”. You don’t “AIM” those, you lift them to just above waist high, look at your target & not the gun, and pull the trigger. After just a few shots, it starts to become very natural. Any sane person can hit a target the size of a person at least somewhere on their body, even if they are moving. 24 rounds: I had 24 hits & 0 misses at various distances. But the people in these movies can’t hit anything even when they do aim and with much better weapons.
    And then you have Major, her manufactured body can stretch & tear, wires breaking, and it can still function? Uh, NO, it wouldn’t. That’s not how mechanics and electronics work.
    The City: a ridiculous “Blade Runner”/”Fifth Element” type of city but with fish floating around. No, not interesting at all. Just very silly.
    Oh, one petty but very annoying thing: They can build an entire body and install a human brain in it and get everything to work but they can only give her a ragged, jagged wig or haircut? That’s very weird. Her crooked bangs were a distraction in every scene that included her facing the viewer.

    In Summary: This movie has a lot of awesome CGI with a ridiculous plot and horrible acting. Great CGI alone doesn’t make a great, or even a good, movie. This catastrophe is a perfect example of that.

16. P

    Pierre_D 5 月 18, 2017

    I boned up on this movie by watching the 1995 version and Stand Alone Complex for a bit, loved the repartée from Major Kusanagi and her crew and hoped it would translate to the big screen. The movie succeeds in displaying the setting and overall feel of the area. Everything is a grainy, low-tech with abundant neon and cyber-solidified humans. Sadly, the script is a bit of a mess. Kusanagi becomes Major Mira Killian (you’ll see why toward the end the film) and Scarlett Johhansson, generally a quite credible actress, is sort of wasted here.

    We do not get a lot of character development for her or her crewmates. There aren’t a lot of quirky, funny moments as there are in the animated versions. Worse still, a lot of the teaser from the movie are just absent here, and one feels cheated. Overall this is a fine bit of popcorn absorption but fails to live up the series’s standards and fails to give any of the actors much to work with. See it on a rainy day, if nothing else.

    3.5/5

17. G

    Gimly 5 月 13, 2017

    I know I wasn’t supposed to love it but I accidentally did.

    _Final rating:★★★½ – I strongly recommend you make the time._

18. W

    Wanderless 4 月 7, 2017

    I’ve watched Ghost in the Shell at the cinema 3 days ago, knowing
    beforehand about the controversies that have surrounded this movie for
    the last 6 months or so. Science fiction movies are probably my
    favorite genre and I also enjoyed most of Scarlett’s movies for the
    past 8-9 years so those two factors were a plus for me going in.

    Regarding the whitewashing business, I think its been blown way, WAY
    out of proportion by social justice warriors with nothing better to do
    than drag media attention over whatever they’re feeling insecure about
    this month/year. For those of you who might be on the fence about
    watching a Caucasian actress in the role that (supposedly) should’ve
    been reserved to an Asian actress, please consider this a NON-MATTER
    and watch it anyway. The character she is portraying is SUPPOSED to
    look Caucasian/white. It was the same in the source material and even
    the creator of that anime said so in interviews.

    Now, is the movie any good? In my opinion, yes. Yes it was. It wasn’t
    amazing but at the very least entertaining. There is a good amount of
    people who score this a 1/10 because they are butt hurt that the story
    was changed a lot. Please ignore them and see for yourself even if
    you’re a fan of the anime and are able to keep an open mind. I think
    maybe I was able to judge it more objectively because I had zero
    knowledge about the story in the anime going in, but, if nothing else,
    the movie actually made me want to watch those old ones to compare.

    The acting – 7.5/10 – Since Scarlett Johansson is the only big name
    that the movie is being marketed alongside, I’d say she did a good job.
    At no point in the movie could I say she didn’t belong there. She
    played the part of cyborg who had difficulty belonging in a human world
    very well. The cast is diverse enough in my opinion, though some of
    them get pretty little screen time.

    The visuals – 9/10 – If there is one point most critics/viewers are in
    alignment concerning this movie, that point is definitely the visuals.
    The movie both looks and feels spectacular, with the futuristic city
    looking like a close-future mix of Blade Runner and TRON. The
    combination of CGI and practical effects looks organic, the movie’s
    powerful themes of excessive self-augmentation and technology almost
    running amok represented very well visually.

    Soundtrack – 8/10 – Sometimes pretty subdued, sometimes
    almost-but-not-quite in your face, I found the soundtrack to vary
    between decent and very good in some moments. It didn’t MAKE the movie
    but it enhanced a good deal in my opinion.

    Story – 7/10 – Here is where the good points of the movie kinda start
    to run dry. A lot of other people would probably rate it a lot lower,
    with 5 or 4’s if they’re at least trying to be objective. Yes, the
    story is fairly predictable, and the fact that the movie is only around
    100 minutes long doesn’t do it any favors either. Here is probably
    where most of the legitimate hate towards this movie stems from. The
    creators adapted a story that had a lot more depth and philosophical
    insight and turned it into a somewhat generic cyborg coming of age
    story mixed with an evil corporation doing questionable things. The
    villain is also very cookie-cutter and has almost zero depth. HOWEVER,
    I do think that concerning this film’s particular themes and narrative,
    a weak villain doesn’t hurt it so much since its more about
    losing/gaining your humanity through technology than any bad guy trying
    to shoot you.

    Writing/Dialogue – 6/10 – By far the movie’s weakest aspect. In fact, I
    believe if some more meaningful dialogue and character interactions
    were written into this film, it could’ve easily been 1 or 2 points
    higher on anyone’s scoring system. As it is, the dialogue is shallow
    and fairly run-of-the-mill for about half the movie’s length. Some bits
    of good interactions are sprinkled here and there, and thankfully
    that’s enough to preserve the soul of the mo

19. S

    Salt-and-Limes 4 月 2, 2017

    I am writing this review as someone who hasn’t seen the original anime. I have also been very critical of the whitewashing of this film. With that I aside, I went to see it with willingness to give it the benefit of the doubt. “Ghost in the Shell” is well…a beautiful shell.

    The visuals were absolutely breath taking. The action scenes flowed so beautifully with special effects. But that’s all the movie had to offer. Take away the spectacles and you have a basic run-of-the-mill action movie.

    The acting was fine. But honestly, the leads didn’t have anything to actually sink their teeth into. Scarjo, and everyone else, was serviceable.

    If you’re looking for some mindless, yet stunning entertainment, then go see it.