Gabe F

It's the best thing I've seen in a while.

Banking on nostalgia and going meta was honestly not the best choice. The plot lacked fluidity. It could be possible that audiences have witnessed the polished and seamless fight sequences big budget hero movies have put out for the past 10 years and coming back to this falls flat. The original series, although aggressively borrowing many concepts from Ghost In the Shell and whitewashing and adapting them for the big screen, was groundbreaking in the sense of its use of slow motion. Today, it's everywhere. She should have brought something new to the table instead of wasting time with endless callbacks to the original trilogy. Instead of coming across as a resurrection of a beloved franchise, it felt like a Meta Star Crossed Love Story. I signed up for a continuation of an action film, not a romance novella with fight scenes.

The cinematography was what saved me whilst watching this. I could not take Stewart as Diana seriously in any moment. She sounded like an English William Shatner. Serious moments of her dialogue had me in tears, from laughter.