Actors: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Jose Pablo
Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman, Watkin Tudor Jones, Yolandi Visser
Rating: 6 out of 10, I liked this a
lot better the second time through. I’ve been a big fan of South African
director Neill Blomkamp since I saw District 9. He explores the well tread
territory of a self-aware robot but the transition he chooses is so flawed as
to defy adequate condemnation. The film includes his usual breathtaking special
effects and gore spattered fire fights which are the only things making this
watchable, well that and Dev Patel. Patel plays the inevitable brilliant
scientist who creates Chappie only to run afoul of dastardly Hugh Jackman in
one of his rare bad guy turns. Chappie’s education falls into the hands of what
might be the two most annoying characters in cinema history. I guess they’re
rock musicians trying to be actors and I truly hope their band is successful
because they had no business being in this movie. Their turn as a pair of
gangsters and the huge amount of time Blomkamp stays with them really sunk the
movie for me. I know this is science fiction but the plot has to make some kind
of sense and I could have looked beyond the gaping plot holes if not for the
soul grating presence of Ninja and Yolandi.
MVP:
Patel as the brains behind Chappie
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