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Chappie

Name: Chappie
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Genre: Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller, Action, Crime/detective
Released: 2015
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Cast: Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver

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Adventure
Sci-fi

2015
Neill Blomkamp
115 mins
15

Summary

Sci-fi thriller starring Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman and Dev Patel. In a future South Africa, robots are used by the police to cope with the rising crime rate. Hoping to improve their performance and make them more human, engineer Deon implants a droid destined for the scrapheap with his new artificial intelligence system. But it's not long before this experimental model falls into the wrong hands.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Karen Krizanovich

If RoboCop and WALL-E had a baby it would be Chappie, a decommissioned law enforcement android secretly hardwired with consciousness. Forbidden by his corporate boss (Sigourney Weaver) to experiment with the damaged droid, IT designer Dev Patel gives Chappie artificial intelligence so that he learns like a human child. When Chappie is kidnapped by decorative criminals (among them South African hip-hop artists Ninja and Yo-Landi Visser), his endearing naivety makes him a nimble mimic but an awkward "gangsta" and soon he's torn between good and evil. This is a return to director Neill Blomkamp's old stomping grounds - the dusty South African oppression of District 9. While Hugh Jackman's appearance as a mullet-wearing bad guy is largely forgettable, there is something fresh in the drone's expressive facial grid, mime-like gestures and nervy chatter (voiced by Blomkamp regular Sharlto Copley) with a single orange antennae telegraphing his moods. Shot on location, this futuristic thriller is pacey and perky, and the punkish production design looks very Mad Max.

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6.8/10