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| Characters: |
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| Story: |
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| Animation: |
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| CG: |
B+ |
| Mecha Designs: |
B+ |
| Dub / Sub: |
B+
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| Music: |
B+ |
| Reviewer's Tilt: |
A- |
| Penalty: |
C+ |
| Total: |
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| Japanese Name: Kokaku kidotai |
| Japanese Name (Translation): Mobile Armored Police
Division |
| North American Name: Ghost in the Shell |
| Version(s) Seen: English
Dubbed |
| Category / Genre: Cyborg,
Police, Sci-Fi, Conspiracy |
| Year: 1995 (Japan) / 1996 (US) |
| Based on the Manga By: Masamune Shirow |
| Age Suitability: 16+ (Violence, Profanity, Brief
Gore, Brief Nudity) |
| Date Reviewed: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
Overview: (VHS
Back)
In a world
caught in the grip of information overload, where artificial intelligence
is more than the real thing and cyborg cops spend their lives surfing on
an electronic sea of living data, only the Ghost - the indefinable element
of human consciousness - exists to determine who is alive and who is purely
a creation of the net.
Major Motoko
Kusanagi is an elite officer in the Section 9 security force: a cybernetic
agent so heavily modified that little more than her Ghost remains. Along
with fellow cyborg Bateau and the mostly human Togusa, Kusanagi is set
on the trail of a computer-criminal known as the Puppet Master, a data
thief skilled enough to hack into the very minds of his victims. His human
marionettes live out existences that are nothing more than computer generated
fantasy, unwittingly committing their master's crimes while the Ghost-hacker
hides in the darkness.
But as
Kusanagi digs deeper into the walls of secrecy surrounding the case, it
appears that the Puppet Master has a special interest in her alone. And
when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shadowy Section 6, enter the scene,
Kusanagi becomes tangled in a web of plot and counterplot, and realizes
the true identity of her invisible assailant lies at the center of a vast
and lethal political conspiracy... |
Review:
Woah,
WHAT A MOVIE.
This movie
is a treat of the senses and challenges the mind. A must see. This
movie set the standard for such films as Armitage III. I had put
off watching this for a long time (mainly due to the box art). This
movie is proof that you can't always tell an anime by it's box art.
I wish I had seen this sooner.
A great
showing of a future where cyborgs and cyberenchaned humans replace many
people, but it also shows that like anything else thay can be hacked.
Often with very intersting results. The cast is very likeable and
everthing is done so well and very dark and somber styling |
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