Ghost in the Shell Review

Finished watching Ghost in the Shell, directed by Rupert Sanders and staring Scarlett Johansson, Peter Ferdinando, Tenkesi Kitano, Pilou Asbæk and Michael Pitt. The film opens with the creation of Major Mira Killian's (Scarlett Johansson) cybernetic body before the head of Hanka Robotics, Cutter (Peter Ferdinando), who is over looking the procedure gets her signed up within Section 9. A year later Killian is on a mission with Section 9 as a group of armed and cybernetic enhanced men storm a meeting when the robots surviving the attendees attack, causing Killian to jump into the building without the backup of her team. After reporting back to her boss Chief Daisuke Aramaki (Tenkesi Kitano), Killian and her parter, Batou (Pilou Asbæk) go to Hanka Robotics where Killian gets patched up before delving into the brain of one of the robots that we at the meeting to discover that a man named Kuze (Michael Pitt) is pulling the strings. Overall this was a good film as it brings the world of the Japanese manga/anime to life thanks to some amazing visuals of the effects used as part of the set designs and the city itself. The action scenes are great from the stunning CGI fight scenes to the hand to hand combat between characters are all excited extremely well. There is also a great amount of character interactions between Killan and other characters such as Batou and Kuze as the film dives into the working relationship between Killan and Batou with some great moments of levity and drama in places. While the few scenes that Killan and Kuze share help to develop both characters with how both characters background intertwine similarly. 7/10.