I can't believe all these 7-10 star reviews! Do they work for Blomkamp or something? Chappie started off pretty good. But it didn't take long for it to fall apart. Plot holes, disbelievable characters, and illogical decisions made by those characters abound. There are just too many to forgive.
The list goes on and on. This movie is terrible. How did the same guy who made District 9 make this jumbled disaster? 3 stars for the action scenes and FX. If you want to see a MUCH better movie about the problems, questions, risks and mysteries of humanity and Artificial Intelligence, check out Ex Machina.
- The gang's behavior is completely irrational...even for mindless thugs. They let Deon come and go to and from their hideout more than once when he could've easily ratted them out, especially if he'd been busted by his company. They just leaves Chappie alone in an unknown part of town to "toughen him up." In a logical world, he'd have wandered off, been picked up by authorities, Deon, or the company. And they'd have lost their great advantage in their upcoming "heist". No one's that stupid. For most of the movie, Daddy's character is a desperate souless, self-centered, mindless thug. But at the end, he's portrayed as a selfless loving, sensitive hero. So he's one of the good guys now??? Give me a break...
- This all-powerful Guard Key - I get that Deon couldn't retrieve it when Chappie was first activated, but he came back and could EASILY have retrieved it then. Also, if it's so one-of-a-kind, vital-to-company- operations and all-powerful, how on Earth is it not missed and under better guard???
- The riotous behavior of the public after the robots go down is totally unrealistic. Does Blomkamp want us to believe that without the police keeping us all in line, we human beings are nothing but a bunch of maniacs?
- And what's with Jackman (I don't remember his uninteresting character's name) and Daddy's characters making the sign of the cross before going into battle? Give me a break...
- Chappie is 100% uneducated. He believes that knife stabbings only induces sleep, he's only read one children's book. But somehow he has the technical expertise to operate, interface and use a neural helmet to upload a consciousness into computer hardware...which, I must ask, arrived at the gang's hideout HOW??? Give me yet another break.
- But the worst thing about this movie is that none of the characters are very likable, most of them not in the slightest. Even the "good guys", Chappie and Deon, are so inconsistent and disbelievable that it's difficult to root for them.
The list goes on and on. This movie is terrible. How did the same guy who made District 9 make this jumbled disaster? 3 stars for the action scenes and FX. If you want to see a MUCH better movie about the problems, questions, risks and mysteries of humanity and Artificial Intelligence, check out Ex Machina.