The Reel Review
This live action remake of the 1996 Japanese animé (itself based on a very popular Japanese manga), stars Scarlett Johansson as a futuristic, first-of-her-kind, crime fighting human/robot hybrid, who ends up battling her creators after uncovering the awful secret about how she came to be. While the visual effects are truly impressive, that is all this boring film has going for it. Both the Jason Bourne knockoff story and Johansson’s performance are bland, tedious and lifeless.