So preoccupied with the shell, it forgot to bring enough ghost. But if you're a longstanding fan of this genre, then the original’s deep, abiding influence on Hollywood (beyond The Matrix there's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Avatar, hell, even HBO’s Westworld) makes its remake feel derivative of so many movies other than its source material. Or that the Major's psychic tussle to recover the truth of her life before she became a hard-bodied, crime-fighting, walking weapon is just another version of Murphy's struggle in RoboCop. That it took over 20 years for Hollywood to reskin it for live action isn’t that surprising after all, weren’t there already enough science-fiction pictures out there that shared its neon-tinged hardwiring? Perhaps it's been long enough for an audience to glide over the advertisement-dominated, skyscraperscape of the 2017 Ghost In The Shell and not feel like it's just Blade Runner re-scanned.
Ghost In The Shell was a deserved crossover phenomenon, earning its comparisons with the likes of Blade Runner and paving the way for The Matrix ("We wanna do that for real," was the Wachowskis’ pitch). In 1995, Japanese director Mamoru Oshii released a manga-adapting anime which asked searching questions about what makes us human while serving up astonishingly slick and inventive hi-tech action sequences.
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