Ghost in the Shell 2.0

2008

1h 23m

Action

Crime

Drama

Anime

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100%

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8 Reviews

82%

Audience Score

250+ Ratings

Kusanagi, the leader of an unofficial cyborg unit formed to fight against increasingly intelligent and ferocious crimes, goes into the mission to remove the Puppet Master, an unidentified hacker.

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David Jenkins

Time Out

It remains an emotive, sensuous and visually arresting work despite the unnecessary tinkering.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 4, 2009

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Andrew Pulver

Guardian

It looks great, for sure: demonic cityscapes, lysergic mind-trips and aestheticised military hardware. And it's admirably grown-up in its aspiration too.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 4, 2009

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

Mamoru Oshii's digitally tweaked, colour- corrected and otherwise "enhanced" version of his 1995 anime classic remains as visually ravishing and bafflingly opaque as ever.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 4, 2009

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

... an odd hybrid of the original film and the slick 3D computer animation scenes, which is great for the cyber-imagery but looks more plastic and has less personality when it is used on the characters...

Apr 8, 2023

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Brian Costello

Common Sense Media

Classic noir sci-fi anime has violence, profanity, nudity.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 17, 2015

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Daniel Etherington

Film4

A considerably better re-tooling than certain other 'reimagined' sci-fi films we could mention. A classic given extra class.

Rated: 4.5/5

Oct 4, 2009

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Tom F

Very impressive animation, but the appeal of anime for me is more along the magical and natural depictions, and stories about robots and technology don’t always click for me.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

04/26/24

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Audience Member

Incredibly boring and hard to follow at times, I pretty much zoned out for most of the 2nd half.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Julian K

Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (KÃ´kaku kidÃ´tai 2.0): 7 out of 10: The original Ghost in the Shell is an easy 9 out of 10 and is one of the best animes ever made. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 isn't a sequel to that original anime but a rerelease with some scenes redone in CGI instead of the original style. Not the entire movie mind you, that would be a conversation worth the candle Instead it is just a few select scenes. Does the new CGI look better? Um, not particularly as it consistently clashes with the other art style still present and, as a result, the CGI insertions bring the focus out of the story and instead to the constantly changing animation. What is strange is the CGI itself really isn't even that good. Not for today as of this writing of course but it really isn't that good for the time either. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within this is not. The CGI simply doesn't blend in with the rest of the movie as you might have seen in Beauty and the Beast for example. Instead, it acts as if the film is changing its aspect ration at random. (I have suffered through the later in a few films and that is a nightmare.) In a way, this should be like remastering a videogame. One would think there is no way to lose on that front after all the graphics are better and the game plays smoother. Alas, it should come as no surprise that the videogame industry is chock full of remasters that screwed up the original. From the cheap and sloppy removal of fog in the Silent Hill 2 remaster to the simply foolish decision to replace running and gunning with a lame quick time event in the climactic battle of Lara vs. the T. Rex in the Tomb Raider remaster. Doing a remaster (okay partial half-assed remaster) like this is different than simply cleaning up a print. You are in danger of ruining the original for people. The good news is that the original Ghost in the Shell is available completely unmolested unlike those poor victims of Lucas. Bottom line skip this and see the original it is both the exact same movie and it is a much better experience.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/28/19

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Alexander Z

Man this remaster blows. Not worth it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/05/18

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Wirkola F

Un grandioso visionado del cyberpunk que debe verse sí o sí. Pero la calidad 2.0 es relativamente buena pero no la mejor.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/27/15

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Robert B

As someone who has not seen the original GITS in years and generally dislikes the way CG is done, I still rate GITS 2.0 five stars. The negative reviews have a point but I hardly find the film to lose /that/ much (one star?). I also disliked many of the changes to the original Star Wars but still rate the re-release version five stars also. The original animation from GITS has a lot of "soul" in it and this is a classic anime. Definitely recommended to fans of cyberpunk, Blade Runner.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/01/15

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Mamoru Oshii

Director

Atsuko Tanaka

Motoko Kusanagi

Akio Ôtsuka

Batou

Koichi Yamadera

Togusa

Tessho Genda

Nakamura

Masato Yamanouchi

Foreign Minister

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Synopsis

Kusanagi, the leader of an unofficial cyborg unit formed to fight against increasingly intelligent and ferocious crimes, goes into the mission to remove the Puppet Master, an unidentified hacker.

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Producer: Andy Frain, Teruo Miyahara, Shigeru Watanabe
Screenwriter: Kazunori Ito
Production Co: Bandai Visual Company, Production I.G., Manga Entertainment
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Anime
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 21, 2019
Runtime: 1h 23m