In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
In the near future, human organs are enhanced by the cybernetics technology developed by the powerful Hanka Robotics Corporation owned by Cutter. Dr. Ouelet is responsible for the development of the secret project 2571 of a full mechanical body to be connected to a human brain. She uses the brain of a young woman that lost her parents in a cyber attack as subject of a prototype. One year later, the woman is ranked Major and has joined Section 9, an anti-terrorist division commanded by Chief Daisuke Aramaki, working with agents Batou and Togusa. She needs to use a medicine to help the integration of her brain with the mechanical body and has no recollections of her previous life. When Section 9 hunts down the terrorist Kuze, Major learns the secrets about Hanka Robotics and the experiment she was subjected. Now she faces her ultimate enemy: Kuze, a criminal who has managed to hack into the brains of androids and control them.Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The shelling sequence that opens the film was, with the exception of the CGI and green screen background, done with nothing but practical effects. Scarlett Johansson's body was used as a model for the cybernetic shell for the sake of authenticity. Weta Workshop, who designed the shell, carefully studied the human anatomy to accurately create the model, and the whole process of constructing the shell took five months. The white liquid that the shell rises through was an actual plastic solution. A gel mold for the skin of the shell was made entirely of ballistic gel. See more »
Goofs
When Major meets Motoko's mother for the first time, she puts the kettle on the stove to make tea and it whistles. However, the kettle on the stove is not the whistling kind, which has a distinctive spout. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Dr. Ouelet:
Oxygen levels are dropping... Brain function normal... Cerebral salvage ready to proceed... Robotic skeleton prepared and waiting for brain insertion... Initiate Project 2571...
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Crazy Credits
The title appears on screen twice. Once during the creation of the Major and again at the end of the opening credits. See more »
Alternate Versions
Middle Eastern releases of the film have the Major's thermal optic camouflage suit recolored black. See more »
Clearly, the design team are talented and this film is indeed a visual spectacle, but the director clearly doesn't understand why the anime was special. This barely touches on the core themes of the original, it is hollow, beautiful, but hollow.
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Clearly, the design team are talented and this film is indeed a visual spectacle, but the director clearly doesn't understand why the anime was special. This barely touches on the core themes of the original, it is hollow, beautiful, but hollow.