I apologize for the lack of reviews lately, but I have two reasons as to why this happened. One: there were not that many interesting movies released in the past few weeks, and two: world of warcraft has been dominating my life lately. But luckily I managed to pull myself away from that long enough to go see the next movie review, Chappie. Made by Neill Blomkamp who did District 9, does his third film fly or flop? Wow, that was lame, to make up for that, the review.
Plot Summary - It is the year 2016, and South Africa is being controlled by an army of police droids known as Scouts. When the scouts creator Deon (Dev Patel) manages to make a robotic consciousness, he ends up having to steal a damaged police scout for a test subject, but gets kidnapped by a group of thugs including Ninja and Yolandi (of Die Antwoord fame) who plan to use the robot to pull off a heist. When Deon loads the program up, the robot is given the name of Chappie (Sharlto Copley), and ends up being raised by the thugs while they try and keep Deon away.
Pros - Sharlto is very good as the child like Chappie, doing both the voice and motion capture. Although I know nothing of Die Antwoord both Ninja and Yolandi are pretty solid in the film as well, with Yolandi playing the loving mother to Chappie and Ninja who just uses Chappie at first but ends up coming around to Chappie’s side. Dev Patel is good, I just sort of wish he had more to do. The look and story of the film hold up as well for the most part too.
Cons - Hugh Jackman is also in the film as a rival to Deon, and while he is good and he does get some good scenes, he really doesn’t do anything until the third act and even then he only serves as a plot point. Also, the story sort of takes this weird turn in the third act when Chappie realizes his damaged battery will run out soon and that he will die unless he can get a new body. I won’t spoil it, but it left me kind of befuddled at the idea of it.
Final Score - 8/10
I sort of compare this to Kingsman in the sense that Kingsman had more minor flaws, Chappie has a few “major” flaws that don’t really tank the rest of the film. While Kingsman was the better film, I don’t think either of them will be on the best list, they will likely get honourable mentions.
*Sighs* I might end up having to go see Cinderella if I can’t think of anything else to see. I’m not looking forward to it. Until next time (and yes I will try to get back into updating this more often) I’ll see you folks at the movies.
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