Ghost in the Shell (dir. Rupert Sanders).

Sander’s big budget American adaption […] remains visually arresting with an impressive pan-Asian production design from Jan Roelfs but is hopelessly emotionally hollow. It never overcomes the oblivious oddness of its white western cultural sensibilities grafted onto a uniquely Japanese product. It feels soulless despite a slick and shiny sheen. Thematically, it’s only a  shell of any greater ideas where its original material fully embraced a ghost of an identity.

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