It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The Three Acts:The initial tableaux: This animated feature is set in the year 2400 AD. In the past, great destructive actions destroyed much of surface-based human civilization. Since then, humanity has rebuilt itself as digital entities that exist on server networks that are located in orbit around Earth. This cyber universe is called DEVA.There is an unexpected hack into the computers of DEVA. The hack is instigated by a surfaced based person, 'Frontier Setter.' Third Security Officer Angela Balzac is sent to the surface to deal with the problem. She is sent in a material body supported by a powered exoskeleton with high speed computer links to DEVO in orbit. Computers monitor her health and keep her in good shape. Her ground contact is Dingo.Dingo and Angela take an immediate dislike of one another. To compound this, huge sand worms attack early on, and the communications link Angela depends on for health and information retrieval is broken. What to do? Complete the mission.Delineation of conflicts: The hacker has secrets that they wish to keep secret. Angela and Dingo are tasked with ferreting this out, and correcting the situation. This is trickier with Angela's links cut. Once Dingo and Angela find the hacker, everything changes, and the pair have new challenges to deal with.Resolution: Perhaps the next in human evolution was not a step forward.

Honestly it was great fun. The setup was good, the plot was clear and the three main characters were all very likable.Plot: When a hacker called "Frontier Setter" hacks into an ideal virtual world where most of remaining humanity resides, the Officials of the system dispatch "Angela Balzac" to Earth where she'll not only have to cope with the harsh conditions of wasteland Earth but with her guide "Dingo" and her new body. The unlikely duo track down "Frontier Setter" and discovers a shocking truth that will lead to an unexpected battle against time.Of course there's philosophical talk. "What makes a person... human? Can robot have consciousness of its own?" It's a familiar theme, almost a standard in big budget Japanese theatrical anime. But it wasn't over-done and the message was straight-forward. Of course the female lead is impossibly hot (even in her "under-developed" "16 year old" body). It's textbook stuff, mate. There will be flashes of her naked body. She will wear clothes that show off her amazing physique and nobody in the film will bat an eye. And of course there will be big showdown involving missiles, lasers, machine-guns, robots, booby-traps, sniper rifles and giant swords.It is also predictably amazing in its visual aesthetics. Every frame is filled with detail and the sheer clarity of it all makes current CGI animation doodles on photo-shop. Lively camera work also adds to the action taking place while never losing focus on its characters. But you know all of this when you're even searching on IMDb for this film.This is not a game changer for mainstream anime. Nor is it a must-watch for newbies to get a taste of what an anime genre can offer. What it is that it's a pure entertainment that combines what's best in the industry and jam-packed into 100 minutes of rollicking ride. Your eyes shall water, your mind shall think and it will leave you satisfied. Nothing more, nothing less.My only wish for improvement is with plot in DEVA. It's a fantastic premise (although yes, it does sound like Matrix) and well deserves its own action sequence within. The possibility of it is endless and yet we are only given teases of it. However it's just a thought that comes way later after losing yourself in the film's world and its attractive characters. Oh and stay in for the credits. You'd be missing out otherwise.

just finished this Anime film tonight called Expelled from Paradise and I thought it was good. When I saw a trailer for it, I thought it would be good for Toonami, and it could be, but since I watched it already, lets see if it will interest you guys . The plot takes place in a time where people have been digitized and are in a new world in a space computer. But someone/something is trying to hack into their world, so a woman by the name Angela Balzac, goes down to earth (where humans now have a hard time living in this apocalyptic world). She comes down to find the hacker and to rendezvous with a man named Dingo. When they meet, well, the first thing is trouble - and that's where the story starts. It later has a twist where you think the bad isn't bad sort of thing. But after it was over I had this feeling where I wish there was more to their journey and I would have liked to see what they were doing even after the film fully ended. There are few clips in the middle of the credits, and at the very end of the credits, just a two or three second thing and that's it; the last clip was very short. I thought Steve Blum (Dingo) and Wendee Lee (Angela) did a great job as well as Johnny Yong Bosch (Frontier Setter). I enjoyed watching it all the way until the end. I don't know how many people would watch it and like it, but I guess you could watch it to find out for yourself. The animation was good - it had that 3D-ish type of feeling and a mixture of anime. It also had a Matrix feel to it because of the world that Angela comes from, and also a wild west feel to it in some scenes. Overall, a good film.

For the rulers (such as the central council in Deva), it would never be allowed to tolerate any existence that could threat the stability in the world. In Rakuen Tsuiho, that means Frontier Settle, who owns the technology that could ruin the whole Paradise, could never coexistent. It is a similar story that Transcendence(2014) had told.However, as for public or individuals, the safety is no longer the first priority. Some may say, freedom does. that was represent by Dingo in the movie. He could have very luxury life based on his ability, if he abandon his body and accept the offer from Deva. But he choose to live like a human. What a good mentor for Angela! And no doubts that there are always some people conflicting with government in this case.Some may say, honor does, that represent by Angela, who lived a life pursuing higher social ranking in Deva. After returning earth, meeting Dingo and Frontier Settle, she found herself living a life like a program. Even give up your body, humans still fight for living space, to avoid being zipped.To sum up, what do you really want for your life? Are you pursuing something causing a lot of lost? BTW, the third angle is 11010110 10110111, for the angle of Frontier Settle. Lol.PS. for why one star less, since Angela wearing that hot, how could the people in slum never notice this, even the three bad guys were really gentle towards her.