Rakuen tsuiho: Expelled from Paradise
Directed by:
Seiji MizushimaScreenplay:
Gen UrobuchiCinematography:
Kôjirô HayashiComposer:
NARASAKICast:
Rie Kugimiya, Shin'ichirō Miki, Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Hayashibara, Hiroshi Kamiya, Minami Takayama, Yukiko Morishita, Noriko Uemura, Minoru Inaba (more)Plots(1)
Seiji Mizushima directs this sci-fi anime feature. Set in the year 2400, Earth has been abandoned with humans now living digitally on the cyber space station DEVA. The film follows agent Angela Balzac (voice of Rie Kugimiya) as she tries to track down the hacker known as Frontier Setter. In her quest, she is sent to Earth to look for the elusive hacker and meet up with agent Dingo (Shinichiro Miki). Will the pair be able to find Frontier Setter amongst the monsters that have infested the desolate planet? (Anime Ltd)
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There are a few action scenes, a bit of mecha, and some philosophizing... Unfortunately, the animation was all too obviously done on a computer. Fortunately, the characters were likable (Dingo even exceptionally so), and I found all the musings on topics like "what it means to be human" and "what is the essence of human freedom" actually quite entertaining. Of course, the execution and answers are nothing too shocking for someone who has seen The Matrix and perhaps Short Circuit (I was reminded of both those movies), but why not... 5,5/10.
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