Well, the movie was not great, but not because of Johansson. She actually did a good job here. As did the others, nothing against the cast, it’s just that it starts slowly and it goes on slowly as if it was a detective-mystery or something, a cop-movie, while it’s not.
Sometimes I think they rely too much on special effects. What I mean is, they’re great and really entertaining when done well, but sometimes people give them to much time all to themselves, like some scenes are done only for that, to marvel the audience with special effects… but it takes from the story. They should incorporate the effects into the story, is what they should do.
So, they spend half the movie to tell us that Major Mira Killian has survived, is mostly synthetic and doesn’t feel well, she feels out of it all and doesn’t know who she is other than the job she does.
Not just half the movie, but at least two third of it are for that. When we finally get to something interesting, it ends in no time.
I also think that sometimes movies concentrate too much on the protagonist. Yes, I understand the story is about her, but she’s not in a glass ball by herself.
I don’t know how to explain what was missing, but there was something missing.
Or maybe I know. It should have shown the major’s understanding step by step, starting earlier in the movie. Like, she’s robot-like at first, then starts doubting, then knowing, then feeling… maybe something like that.
I liked Kitano’s character but he had too little a role, you should get the best of characters/actors like that. I liked how Johansson played her character, moving like a videogame because after all the body was not real, not human.
To the plot:
Human can “enhance themselves with cybernetic parts”. Hanka company goes further: “by transplanting a human brain into a fully synthetic body, they will combine the strongest attributes of human and robot”.
They do that to Major Mira Killian.
When she died, they made her a synthetic shell, but with her brain.
She can make her body disappear like a ghost. A hacker has used bots to kill many senior figures of Hanka company. Mira connects her mind to the geisha-bot she stopped and sees where she can find him, but it’s a trap and there’s an explosion.
They repair her body and Batou’s eyes, he has them enhanced.
She feeds his stray dogs.
All the dead people were involved in the same project, 2571. Dr Dahlin protected this information when the hacker Kuze went to kill her. Major Mira finds it and can save Ouelet.
Through that action, she can find Kuze. He tells her she was not the first attempt they made. They tried many times, killed many people: Kuze, they left him to die.
She asks Ouelet and learns that there were 98 failed experiments before her, the success.
All the things she remembers (not much, really) are false memories given to her as an incentive to fight terrorists.
Mira stops taking her ‘medicine’ like Kuze told her.
Hanka security brings her in. Ouelet is ordered to terminate her and build a new one. Ouelet deleted her mind many times before, now she should kill her. Mira thinks she’s wiping out her memories and refuses to give her consent, and Ouelet tells her they never really needed her consent.
Now, since Ouelet grew fond of Mira like a daughter, instead of killing her she gives her something to get her memories back and helps her escape.
The guy Cutter kills Ouelet for this, then he tells Mira’s team that she killed her.
Mira goes to the place that is her only clue and finds a woman and her story. Her daughter Motoko wrote manifestos against technology, until she was arrested with her friends. They told Motoko’s mother that she ran away and killed herself.
Mira speaks telepathically to her unit’s boss Aramaki, tells him she never was in a terrorist attack, that there were others like her, runaways considered disposable.
Mira wants help in finding Kuze again, but Cutter was listening and he sends people to kill Aramaki but the old fox survives. He sends a telepathic “we are burned” so the rest of the unit is ready and fights back.
Kuze was Hideo once, Motoko’s friend in their group of runaways. While they talk, Cutter blows up the place with a “spider tank” in remote control.
She breaks herself to destroy it, but Cutter has snipers ready. They shoot Kuze (was he dead already? or did he transfer his mind into his network or something? what happened to him? His eyes went blank before he was shot)
Saito of her unit stops the sniper before he can shoot her, then Batou finds her.
Aramaki goes to Cutter after talking to the Prime Minister - he says - and charges Cutter with “murder and crimes against the state”. Cutter tries to shoot him so Aramaki kills him.
Mira/Motoko is whole again - don’t know who repaired her with Ouelet dead). She keeps working for Aramaki, after visiting here grave and hugging her mother.
Major - Scarlett Johansson
Aramaki - Takeshi Kitano
Ouelet - Juliette Binoche
Kuze - Michael Carmen Pitt
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