Eps 9-10 of Alternative Architecture are the non-duplicate arc sequel to this movie continuing the series while eps 1-8 are shortened duplicates of the Arise movies. Despite starting off mostly fine, this movie quickly becomes the worst of the Arise series in all aspects. The plot within the movie is an egregiously strung together series of dumb events which tries to similarly string together the prior movies' nonplots under a cringe puppet master 'all according to keikaku' cliche. The plot itself is moronic, and would've been far more competently achieved by simply making any targets die in accidents/assassinations of any actual method because there are no actual obstacleswith this god power hacking plot device. All this idiotic nonplot did was put its puppet master at risk of exposure while also risking failure (and in all realistic likelihood they did fail to achieve their goals if not for the inevitable shit writing excuses of 'all according to keikaku' they'll probably once again fall back on to pretend like it makes sense).

The little prior attempts at setting groundwork, such as hamfistedly introducing the girl in the prior movie were pointless, terribly done sequel-bait that spoiled this movie before it even began.

The entire movie is just a bunch of dumb action sequences intercut by dumb dialogue dumps to get to boring plot set pieces (we pointlessly made it to the water, yay, more directorial vomit and pointless emotionless scenes please).

The dialogue is the most egregiously boring garbage exposition dumps of the series, masterfully laid on top of a bunch of idiotically identical face shot Gifs of the girl soundlessly moving her lips to try to distract the characters and audience as much as possible to miss everything the cast is saying as they emotionlessly dialogue vomit the boring nonplot of nonsense out with as much dumb jargon as possible.

The Wizard of Oz references were as subtle as a brick to the face over and over again, not to mention egregiously dumb and entirely pointless for the common thread of the eponymous character Oz being a man behind the curtain (little joke of a) puppet master this series earnestly plays straight and wants you to take seriously. All the other constant name dropping and iconography and ripped character aspects were pointless and excessively on-the-nose while being constantly called out in cringe dialogue/visuals.
There was no actual reason to reference The Wizard of Oz. None of the characters actually gained anything from the journey of this movie (let alone a heart/brain/courage/family): The narrative has been constantly trying to push a 'come back home to section 404 not found' all series with mastertits having almost no other dialogue for Majordysfunction, apparently solely for this reference of 'Dorothy's not in Kansas anymore, and should come home' ending with her choosing to stay where she is with her equally nonfamily of morally deficient hired mercenaries as nothing of consequence ever changed for her in this movie let alone from start to finish of the series as she switched from 1 identical post to another and labored over the nonchoice between these 2 new identical post options where she either has no agency as a soldier under the government or has no agency as a mercenary-soldier under the government while pretending that she does. Wow Dorothy. Pointless and tenuously forced in there at best. The plot device noncharacters all went nowhere: The heartless tin-girl and the brainless scarecrow body-snatcher noncharacters did nothing (because the preplanned virus did everything of consequence on its own with or without them) and went into the great beyond anyone's ability to care about them like a nostalgia pandering brick of the 1st GitS movie. The courageous defiant investigator (who I was under the impression was supposed to be a regular human for contrast but turned out to be just another cyborg) got hacked into The Cowardly Lion... a generic mindless pointless nonplot device chauffer who is then unhacked... deep. Alice in Wonderland would be more fitting for this dumb nonsense slop but I guess the writers are too pretentious to acknowledge that.

There's even egregious nostalgia pandering by having Major do the roof dive with camo whether it makes sense or not (did they leave the high security room's window open for her?)

Major is back to hating the spiderbot mascot character for no reason despite having last been suddenly super friendly to it in a prior movie.

2/10 (where 5/10 is average)