“Ghost In The Shell” (**1/2 out of four) was an elegant but empty adaptation of the Japanese manga series set in the future in which the line between robots and humans has become blurred and one woman (Scarlett Johannson) has become cybernetically enhanced to become a perfect soldier but years to learn of her past and how she became this way. Spectacular-looking film has stunning cinematography and usual plethora of futuristic “Blade Runner” like sets but the story isn’t very compelling or original. By now, we’ve seen too many movies about artificial intelligence and robots (“A.I.”, “Minority Report”, “The Matrix”) for this to have the impact it did when it was first released as a manga series. Johannson is good but her character too is familiar and is virtually the same as Black Widow.

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