Originally Posted by
DemonGeminiX
Ghost in the Shell
Not as bad as reviews are making it out to be. The story is ok. Nothing groundbreaking in the cyberpunk genera. But that's what you get when you help define a genera and don't come out with a live action film until after everything you influenced has taken center stage and upped the ante 20 some odd years after you originally came out in a different format. It's not exactly like the original Anime or the Manga. It's a different storyline. Some of the iconic scenes from the original Anime made it into the film. The action and the visual fx were actually pretty good. It seemed to me that they cut some stuff out that made character interactions a little weird, jumbled, in the beginning. If they put an extended director's cut out on Bluray or DVD, I wouldn't be surprised. It seemed to me that there are some things that could be fleshed out a little better.
You can wait to see it, but you should at least give it a shot when you've got nothing else in the queue that you absolutely must see.