Chappie (2015)
Genre: Scifi / Action
Duration: 120 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Neill Blomkamp
Stars: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel and Hugh Jackman
IMDb score:
6,8 (282.882)
Releasedate: 4 March 2015
Chappie plot
"I am consciousness. I am alive. I am Chappie."
In the near future, crime is fought with the help of robots by a brutal police force. But the people are fighting back. One of these robots is stolen and reprogrammed, making him the first robot that can think and have feelings for itself. When this android named Chappie is kidnapped by criminals, he quickly becomes a threat to the police state. All means are used to destroy him and prevent multiple similar androids from being produced.
Actors and actresses
Chappie
Deon Wilson
Vincent Moore
Ninja
Yo-Landi
Michelle Bradley
Journalist
Anderson Cooper
Yankie (Amerika)
Hippo
Reviews & comments
Demeter
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- 262 messages
- 1671 votes
After the slightly lesser Elysium, another one hell of a Blomkamp film. An intelligent, original and intriguing story about artificial intelligence delivered very strongly, again set in South Africa that does a fine job as a science fiction setting. Chappie credibly evolves into an android with his own real motivations. The brutal action and good music make it complete.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4431 messages
- 3111 votes
Mediocre.
Neill Blomkamp has, in my humble opinion, everything to present really good science-fiction. That's evident in District 9, Elysium and this Chappie too. However, the end product is somewhat disappointing. Somewhere the machine falters and after Elysium it delivers another film that does not live up to its potential.
The biggest flaw with this film seems to me to be the script, which starts out interesting but gets worse by the minute. The infantile rap duo gets so much attention - incomprehensible, they are really a mockery -, but Hugh Jackman also deserves some more nuance in the role he plays. It all makes Chappie not very consistent in tone. It fluctuates somewhat between genres and feelings.
It is a waste of the originality that Blomkamp and his team put into designs and creations. Anyway, the film looks fresh - the special effects are also of a high standard. The action scenes also show that they can do something with it - although slow motion has no added value for me in action-packed finals.
So I keep hoping for another District 9.
2.5
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blurp194
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- 5543 messages
- 4226 votes
Nicely smooth and raw, and the African accent is something different from the usual slick Hollywood junk. On the other hand, it is also sometimes a bit too much of an amateurish mess, editing and direction drop several stitches, the big names among the actors occasionally act as lousy as Ninja and Yo-Landi from Die Antwoord, and the Hugh Jackman's mat is too greasy to look at. And that the idea is more than a little bit stolen from Robocop, well let's not get into that.
That would be explainable if it had been a low budget film, but it is not. Then it's a bit hard to swallow that Weaver has such a disappointing role, just to name a few. Or that everyone is behaving so completely inconsistently - with Ninja and Hippo leading the way. And the music is bloody irritating, but that probably came with the cast for free.
All just a bit too much form over content. Blomkamp has shown with District 9 that he can do better.
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