The spirit of William Gibson and those heady early days of cyberpunk live on in this bold attempt to bring the manga/anime classic stories into live action. What emerges is a curiously old-fashioned-feeling movie that tells a now very-familiar story with a pleasing hi-tech CGI gloss, some decent action sequences but filmically at times it comes across as a bit more Johnny Mnemonic than The Matrix. The whitewashing issue does jar more obviously beyond the Johansson casting (although she is fine in the role): why would an Asian company put Asian 'ghosts' into Western 'shells'? The underperforming box-office probably at least delays even further the proposed live-action Akira, although a couple of later shots in this movie are a convincing steal from that classic.
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