Ghost In The Shell 2 : Innocence (2004) 7/10

Starring : Richard Epcar, Crispin Freeman, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Joey D’Auria
Director : Mamoru Oshii
Running Time : 96 mins

With Major Motoko Kusanagi (McGlynn) missing an presumed dead, her cyborg ex-partner Batou (Epcar) is assigned a new partner, Togusa (Freeman), and they are put on a case involving sex robots, or Gynoids, that have acted out and murdered some of their owners. As the investigation continues, Batou and Togusa find that the reason behind the robot attacks is far more sinister than even they could have imagined.

Despite not being as interesting or engrossing as the 1995 original, this is still a spectacular anime which takes all the best parts of animation and combines them to make an effective and clearly very detailed movie that can be enjoyed by fans of sci-fi, anime, and film noir alike. There are some great set pieces, particularly the deja vu moments two thirds of the way through, but sadly this falls short of its impressive predecessor.

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