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I thought the 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie was alright. It had a story that (eventually) made sense. People talked to each other in a way that could reasonably be considered realistic. The music had some variety. The visuals were pretty consistently decent looking.

Innocence has none of this. The story is terrible. What you read in the synopsis is the whole story. The answer to the question is given in the span of 30 seconds at the end of the movie. It was not interesting or exciting. The story is mostly delivered through long stretches of exposition where they drop 3+ names and 5 ... philosophy quotes. Something like:
"This crime family killed this guy who killed this guy who saw this guy but then this other guy got killed by these people for this corporation. let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in the forest. Then years ago this guy was good at this and there was this corporation that made things. Death, robots, uh, AI, and souls or something. Yeah, we're really smart."

The biggest issue, worse than the crappy story is the dialogue. Imagine if every single line in Bladerunner or your favorite mystery movie was replaced with loosely related philosophy quotes. Regardless of what is being discussed, there has to be a philosophy quote. It seems that as part of getting a cyber-brain you get a complimentary download of a library of philosophy quotes. The dialogue was so painfully uninteresting.

The music consists of the theme or snippets of it being played every 20 minutes or less. It was alright the first time, but the only music I even remember anymore is the theme song.

The visuals are a weird hodgepodge of 2D animation, 3D animation that's close to 2D animation, and really out of place 3D animation that is sometimes given light cel shading. The inconsistency is jarring. It lacks the style and charm of the original movie. There were some neat set-pieces but most of them didn't matter.