What I liked:
futuristic Japan, Scarlett Johansson
What I didn't like
Pretty much everything else, the lack of any real plot, predictable ending, pretty mindless violence on the whole.
Mz Johanssons character is supposed to be of a Japanese girl, unlucky enough to have been an unwilling brain donor for transplant.
Why did they create a body of western Caucasian ? She was 'made' to act as a counter terrorism 'robocop' in futuristic Japan.
A strange 'white wash' presumably just to accommodate Ms Johansson rather than a lesser known but more plausible Asian actress.
Summary: I did wonder why the trailer showed Mz Johansson apparently naked. I realise that it is just to entice the unwary into the cinema by adding a little titillation. The plot certainly offers nothing in the way of titillation. Spoiler alert - you don't see anything, its a sort of plastic robo skin suit
Whats puzzling, is why she strips off down to her skin suit, every time she has to dive off a building or kill someone ?
I digress, the plot in summary
In the future cybernetics have advanced so much that they can put a human brain into a manufactured (but lifelike) body. Our heroine is the first of these. Apparently her family were killed by terrorists and she so badly wounded, they could only save her brain. So they transplanted it into a manufactured robot body, which looks amazingly like Scarlett Johansson !
She's becomes part of a counter terrorism unit (doesn't really explain much about this) to kill bad guys. Why a few westerners are in futuristic anti terror forces in Japan is also a bit of a puzzle. Shades of oriental female robocop.
There is a big high tech corporation, (like in robocop). Some arch baddie is murdering top corporation scientists & management and extracting secret data about the corporation. The unit is sent to find out who it is and track them down.
Turns out Mz Johansson wasn't the first guinea pig for a brain op, There were many others who did not survive. But one did and he's out for revenge. The corporation took his life and body away from him and then botched a brain transplant.
She finds him, and discovers not only she wasn't the first there were some 98 killed for experimentation. Oh and her memories were implanted and fake.
She discovers she was a runaway girl, they abducted as brain transplant fodder. She has a pretty boring meeting with her actual mother all though neither seems aware of the relationship.
The other guinea pig causing all the trouble was her boyfriend. He was abducted with her and was an earlier brain transplant experiment gone wrong.
The big corporation owner, realises Ms Johansson may be a problem (because she has discovered the truth) and sets out to have her 'eliminated'. Bit like in Robocop
Mz Johansson triumphs, the big corporation owner receives his just deserts, and that's it. She just strips off into her plastic naked suit anytime she needs to dive off a building etc.
Basically this films a vehicle for Ms Johansson, acting like agent romanoff, (killing people)
However, now in robocop mode and stripping down to her plastic suit 'naked' suit every so often to kill people.
Looks good but is rather boring and unsatisfying. Watch once and never again. 6/10
futuristic Japan, Scarlett Johansson
What I didn't like
Pretty much everything else, the lack of any real plot, predictable ending, pretty mindless violence on the whole.
Mz Johanssons character is supposed to be of a Japanese girl, unlucky enough to have been an unwilling brain donor for transplant.
Why did they create a body of western Caucasian ? She was 'made' to act as a counter terrorism 'robocop' in futuristic Japan.
A strange 'white wash' presumably just to accommodate Ms Johansson rather than a lesser known but more plausible Asian actress.
Summary: I did wonder why the trailer showed Mz Johansson apparently naked. I realise that it is just to entice the unwary into the cinema by adding a little titillation. The plot certainly offers nothing in the way of titillation. Spoiler alert - you don't see anything, its a sort of plastic robo skin suit
Whats puzzling, is why she strips off down to her skin suit, every time she has to dive off a building or kill someone ?
I digress, the plot in summary
In the future cybernetics have advanced so much that they can put a human brain into a manufactured (but lifelike) body. Our heroine is the first of these. Apparently her family were killed by terrorists and she so badly wounded, they could only save her brain. So they transplanted it into a manufactured robot body, which looks amazingly like Scarlett Johansson !
She's becomes part of a counter terrorism unit (doesn't really explain much about this) to kill bad guys. Why a few westerners are in futuristic anti terror forces in Japan is also a bit of a puzzle. Shades of oriental female robocop.
There is a big high tech corporation, (like in robocop). Some arch baddie is murdering top corporation scientists & management and extracting secret data about the corporation. The unit is sent to find out who it is and track them down.
Turns out Mz Johansson wasn't the first guinea pig for a brain op, There were many others who did not survive. But one did and he's out for revenge. The corporation took his life and body away from him and then botched a brain transplant.
She finds him, and discovers not only she wasn't the first there were some 98 killed for experimentation. Oh and her memories were implanted and fake.
She discovers she was a runaway girl, they abducted as brain transplant fodder. She has a pretty boring meeting with her actual mother all though neither seems aware of the relationship.
The other guinea pig causing all the trouble was her boyfriend. He was abducted with her and was an earlier brain transplant experiment gone wrong.
The big corporation owner, realises Ms Johansson may be a problem (because she has discovered the truth) and sets out to have her 'eliminated'. Bit like in Robocop
Mz Johansson triumphs, the big corporation owner receives his just deserts, and that's it. She just strips off into her plastic naked suit anytime she needs to dive off a building etc.
Basically this films a vehicle for Ms Johansson, acting like agent romanoff, (killing people)
However, now in robocop mode and stripping down to her plastic suit 'naked' suit every so often to kill people.
Looks good but is rather boring and unsatisfying. Watch once and never again. 6/10