Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Limite 1: Dor Fantasma

For fans of the original film and the 2004 follow-up Innocence, this will be both impressive and disappointing. It seems to be intended as the first part of a TV series rather than a film, so it feels abrupt and under-developed. I may be biased as someone who deeply appreciates robot sci-fi stories but also has high expectations for them.

For first time viewers of any Ghost in the Shell animation, this may be as mind-opening and impressive as the other 2, although the animation style reverts to the original and may seem a little old to people used to more recent animation/cartoon advances. The essence of the science-fiction story remains, with some more modern realism thrown in to keep the story relevant.

The makers should either rebuild and expand this into a proper film or follow-up with another short film that fills in the gaps and then combine the 2. It would be sad to see a great film series like this turn into half-developed TV melodrama.

Positive:

• action
• Logicoma is cute & weird
• interesting plot: effects of technology (hacking, cyber terrorism)

Negative:

• confusing (storywise no prior knowledge required, but also no introduction to the Ghost in the Shell Universe)
• characters are neglected
• unnecessarily complex story
• visually very reduced / poorly detailed and somewhat cheap
• meaningless music
• playing time / substance of the story (could have been reduced to half the time)

Characters are completely destroyed for the purpose (I guess) to introduce this brand to "new generation" viewers and the plot line is recycled from previous GITS incarnations. Nope.

This was some bull crap. This movie was almost nothing like the original ghost in the shell. For what ever reason there is an unexplained conflict between two characters that is in no way explained what so ever.this was so bland that I found my self falling asleep. The entire plot is freaking confusing. I don't even why some of the stuff in the film is happening. There is so many freaking cliff hanger that I lost count. This was a very poor attempt to revive ghost in the shell. Watch this crap if your curious. The animation was new but the constant cameos of Microsoft tablets were annoying considering this is a Prequel and that the original ghost in the shell did not have smartphones or tablets because during that era, they did not exist

It is a nice movie, not to bad but also no enough good. Every topic and every character it is pretty nice and also charistamic, especially Kusanagi. Seeing it with nowadays eyes the main problem about AI and mind control, also brain hackers, It's truly a recent problem or even a future problem, seems not to be a big deal but think just that this movie was release 10 years ago, or even before if we put on table the manga. All the world construction it is also pretty nice and well achieved I like the way the movie uses cyberpunk estetic but not just with hyper technology or tipical cliche high technology and low live quality. The main problem it is more technical, I mean the animation is lovely and it is 3D so that's amazing but. Espcially in fights I ain't feel the movement or the hit impact, it doesn't really look like a live or death fight. The last thing is Motoko Kusanagi it is a really nice character, I mean she have carisma an also an interesting background and history (and also her presentation it's just perfect) but the movie don't tell too much about the past or the background, you will only know the nescesary, that isn't bad but I think they lost the oportunity to create an even more insteresting and memorable character. Especially cause she is the 90% of the movie.