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.

The only reason I even bothered to check out this movie was because the name Urobuchi was slapped on. Who needs more reasons than that, right? I mean, OK, the trailer looked luring enough by showing a girl with long twin tails and super revealing clothes riding a robot and blowing stuff up. Clear evidence that it has to be a super mature and thought provoking title, like everything else Urobutcher was part of. The movie begins by making sure that the audience will view the heroine as a sex object, rather than a character with modesty and respect. Here she is, in bikini on some beach, where a guy that is meant to be us, self-inserting our desires on him, is trying to seduce her.Out of nowhere some virus pops up and she goes after it… completely naked. Yeah, who needs clothes to chase something in the virtual world, of course and it makes sense that she would be naked. Just don't bother to ask why she needs to have a body at all and not to simply be sprites. Whoops, you shouldn't have realized that, so here are some uncensored boobies with nipples to make sure it never crosses your mind.She fails to stop the virus thing so she goes to her superiors, by wearing her battle uniform. Because she totally needs clothes all of a sudden. Said uniform is equally revealing as her bikini from before, so basically she doesn't hide a damn thing. Might as well be naked. So, her superiors look like Gods from various religions. Owww, such depth and maturity to just slap on theological imagery that has absolutely nothing to do with religion. This is totally no excuse to be pretentious by throwing in mambo jumbo terminology and make it look important because RELIGIONS MAAAAN.She decides to get a physical body and go investigate this virus thing. Because so far she was just ethereal or something, living in a virtual world. Again, don't ask why she needs a body, much less one that is barely dressed that goes totally commando when chasing viruses. To make sure such a thing will never cross your mind once again, feast your eyes on her new body, a Lolita one, with super extra long twin tails that would completely hinder all her movements if the movie gave a damn about physics. She is again naked, with uncensored nipples. Any reason for why it looks like a walking arousing excuse and not as a modestly dressed male agent or something like that? Kachin! Yes, this virtual wife can take the shape of any fetish you desire, go buy her merchandise.So after she lands on the psychical realm and proving what a complete klutz that you would love to protect she is, an encounter with desert monsters takes place. She gets into her robot, and flies into action! As usual, the CGI looks nice during battle scenes but the whole thing is completely ruined by the simple fact that the robot is a ball with small legs and arms popping up around it. Jeez, this is a shape you give to small comical robot mascots, not to the titular robot. And it's really hard to be excited about the action when the camera gives us gratuitous butt shots of a twin tail Lolita.After the completely bogus battle, we get to see Rie Kugimiya doing her usual thing by voicing a stereotypical neurotic girl, constantly angry at a cool guy who clearly knows far more than her, but she is too much of a bitch to admit it. She would make a fine harem girl in any run of the mill school comedy. Just like any other identical role Rie Kugimiya did.What follows after that is boring and almost plot less. The movie literally wastes over half of its duration on crap that would make you fall asleep. No interesting action, no deep themes explored, not even butt shots to prevent the anime fans from playing with their smart phones for the next hour. Something about the physical world being a fun place and how the digital one is not, and the superiors being douche bags for simply having authority. I don't care movie; you zoomed on the twin tailed Lolita's ass, remember? Eventually we get another flashy action scene, with that ridiculous robotic balloon fighting other robotic balloons. Just like before, there is no reason to care about a stereotypical neurotic girl in a lame robot fighting generic enemies. After that, the movie ends in a completely anti-climactic way. What a waste of 2 hours that was.TL;DR: This movie is awful, even as a brain-dead action flick. It doesn't even feel like it had anything related to what Urobutcher is notorious about. All the characters, past the main two, you see in the poster and the action scenes of the trailer don't get more than a few minutes of screen time, and even then fail completely to be memorable or interesting. The theme of reality being better to fiction is as superficial as it gets, since the protagonist is a generic neurotic girl Lolita and the villains are stereotypically evil because AUTHORITY MAAAAN!

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.

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.