Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg agent in Section 9, and her partner, Batô, track a hacker known as The Puppet Master who can control not only machines, but humans. A prime example of Cyberpunk, Ghost in the Shell takes place in the near future, and includes robots, cyborgs, computers, huge corporations, untrustworthy governments, and hacking. It is
Several years after Major Motoko Kusanagi (voice: Atsuko Tanaka) vanished into the computer network, the highly cybornetic Batô (voice: Akio Ôtsuka), with his new partner Togusa (Kôichi Yamadera), are assigned to investigate a string of murders committed by “gynoids” upon their masters. Clues suggest that the huge Locus Lolus corporation is somehow responsible. But more than
A group of teen hackers, including ‘Crash Override’ (Jonny Lee Miller), who had been arrested as a child for breaking into government computers, ‘Acid Burn’ (Angelina Jolie), a girl with a chip on her shoulder, and ‘Cereal Killer’ (Matthew Lillard), the class clown, must band together to stop a corporate computer criminal (Fisher Stevens) who
In the near future, weapon maker Spencer Olham (Gary Sinise) is accused of being an alien android with an implanted bomb. The oppressive government has no conclusive test to determine if he is an android, as he wouldn’t know himself, so orders him executed. Olham escapes to prove who he really is. Based on a
Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a mnemonic smuggler, with an illegal implant in his brain that allows him to store computer data. On his last job, things go terribly wrong and he finds himself hunted by the Yakuza. Worse, he only has twenty-four hours to remove the overload of information from his head before it kills
A megalomaniac corporate chairman has Jobe (Matt Frewer), miraculously surviving his apparent demise in the first film, solving the last problems with the powerful Chiron chip so that he can take over the world. But Jobe is actually working for himself so that he can become a new messiah. It is left to the creator
Neo (Keanu Reeves), Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) continue to fight the machines. Now, with the machines staging a final assault on Zion, the last human city, Neo visits The Oracle (Gloria Foster) and learns he must return to “the source” to end the war. To do so, he will have to deal
With the machines attacking Zion, Captain Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), must rush back to the city with the last functional EMP weapon. Neo (Keanu Reeves), and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) head for the machine city where Neo will discover his destiny. And the Agent Smith clones have taken over The Matrix. The
Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a high priced computer engineer who takes questionable jobs and then has his memory erased. After one such job, with three years of memories gone, he finds that he signed away his paycheck and sent himself nineteen worthless objects. Also, he is wanted by the police. Something went terribly wrong
To test a secret government anti-terrorist cloning program, scientists make a “replicant” of The Torch (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a serial killer. Recently retired police detective, Jack Riley (Michael Rooker), who worked on The Torch case, is hired to try out the clone and hunt down the killer. Some movies would benefit from never pretending to
In a near-future, crime-ridden Detroit, policeman Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is murdered by a local gang. This is perfect timing for an unprincipled, wiz-kid moving up the corporate ladder at the corrupt Omni Consumer Products Corporation, which manages the police department. He turns Murphy’s dead body into a cyborg, RoboCop. A prime example of cinematic Cyberpunk, RoboCop
Since the events in the first film, the situation in Detroit has gotten even worse. The police are on strike, crime is everywhere, half the city is addicted to a new drug called nuke, Detroit is in default and will be taken over by OCP corporation, children beat up storeowners, and RoboCop is a scab. In