The First 5 Minutes of 'Ghost in the Shell' Are Unreal

The American Ghost in the Shell movie will arrive next Friday, March 31, when its creators will finally find out whether it was worth playing in the whitewashing sandbox. (Many superfans will be scrutinizing was worth adapting at all.)

Today, the first five minutes of Ghost in the Shell available to begin the pre-judging. It jumps straight into the action, giving Dark Knight and Mission: Impossible vibes.

"73 percent of this world has woken up to the age of cyber-enhancement," says this one robotics-biz corporate douche at a power-dinner. "Do you really wanna be left behind?" This leads to a discussion of organic humanism vs. artificially enhanced existences, of spirit vs. machine.