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The animation is lovely, but the plot is complex to the point of inscrutability, leaving Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence both original and numbing.
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Mamoru Oshii's 2004 follow-up to his 1995 anime noir is that rare sequel that surpasses the original. Apr 18, 2007 | Full Review…
Mamoru Oshii's 2004 follow-up to his 1995 anime noir is that rare sequel that surpasses the original.
Andrea Gronvall
The elegance, attention to detail, the invention and expertise all ensure that the movie's never less than visually breathtaking. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
The elegance, attention to detail, the invention and expertise all ensure that the movie's never less than visually breathtaking.
Geoff Andrew
If you can get past the weighty aphorisms that pass for dialogue, the film has an obscure beauty and rich, melancholy tone. Jan 17, 2006 | Full Review…
If you can get past the weighty aphorisms that pass for dialogue, the film has an obscure beauty and rich, melancholy tone.
Paul Byrnes
Muddled up with philosophising about the relationship between mind and the material world. Dec 6, 2005 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Muddled up with philosophising about the relationship between mind and the material world.
Occasional passages of shell-cracking egghead overload aside, there's no getting past Innocence's astounding visual power. Oct 29, 2004 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Occasional passages of shell-cracking egghead overload aside, there's no getting past Innocence's astounding visual power.
Geoff Pevere
The effect of so much pretension and so many lovely images eventually becomes soporific. Oct 29, 2004 | Rating: 2.5/4
The effect of so much pretension and so many lovely images eventually becomes soporific.
Liam Lacey
This long-overdue follow-up goes the way of most sequels, delivering a visually impressive but far more simplistic -- and thus unsatisfying -- story. Nov 7, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
This long-overdue follow-up goes the way of most sequels, delivering a visually impressive but far more simplistic -- and thus unsatisfying -- story.
Luke Goodsell
With its themes of human arrogance, wastefulness, creativity, and the definitions and limits of life and the mind, Innocence is pretty heavy. It's also visually stunning. Jul 16, 2010 | Full Review…
With its themes of human arrogance, wastefulness, creativity, and the definitions and limits of life and the mind, Innocence is pretty heavy. It's also visually stunning.
Film4 Staff
Much like Akira in the 1980s, this is the film that sets the standard by which all others of its kind are judged - and usually found wanting. Jul 4, 2008 | Full Review…
Much like Akira in the 1980s, this is the film that sets the standard by which all others of its kind are judged - and usually found wanting.
Steve Biodrowski
the mind-blowing story and its reality-bending aesthetic form a sublime continuum, where the medium becomes part of the message...this is animation at its most acute and enthralling. Jul 6, 2007 | Full Review…
the mind-blowing story and its reality-bending aesthetic form a sublime continuum, where the medium becomes part of the message...this is animation at its most acute and enthralling.
Anton Bitel
Gone is much of the bombast of the original... Jun 21, 2007 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Gone is much of the bombast of the original...
Jason Gorber
Too talky and philosophical for kids, and dabbling in lavish imagery that lacks enough narrative coherence to hook adults, this is an animated feature that, well, needed to get a little more animated. Mar 31, 2007
Too talky and philosophical for kids, and dabbling in lavish imagery that lacks enough narrative coherence to hook adults, this is an animated feature that, well, needed to get a little more animated.
Prairie Miller
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