2017 · sci-fi · drama · action
Ghost in the Shell
Directed by Rupert Sanders1h 47m2017
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Our read: Ghost in the Shell (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Watching Ghost in the Shell tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Ghost in the Shell feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want glossy cyberpunk mood about identity inside a synthetic body.”
Skip it tonight — Hollywood adaptation flattening and shallow philosophy will disappoint you.
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