Distracted by Ghost's beauty

Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, made a decade ago, was a successful and influential animé film.

Its successor is wondrously beautiful at times but almost as incomprehensible. Batou, a cyborg anti-terrorist operative, wanders a futuristic cityscape looking for a robot that has malfunctioned.

There is much tuppeny-halfpenny philosophising, but the visuals are brilliant enough to forgive it almost everything, if only one knew what on earth was going on.

Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence
Cert: 15

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