Review of Chappie (2015) by Beladrim — 06 Mar 2015

Beautiful to look at and interesting main character.

Sadly, the movie overall doesn't live to its potential.

If you have watched other movies from Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium), than you will find nothing new about Chappie otherBeautiful to look at and interesting main character.

Sadly, the movie overall doesn't live to its potential.

If you have watched other movies from Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium), than you will find nothing new about Chappie other than the main character. Blomkamp has an obsession on portraying the lack of equality and fairness and in a sci-fi uthopia setting. While it was fresh with disctrict 9, it is really getting annoying at this point.

Great Blomkamp, the formula worked in discrit 9... You don't have to use it for EVERY single movie you make! Considering, that Blomkamp is working on a new "alien" movie, I am starting to fear that he will try to shoe horn his moral values in this one aswell (Maybe the aliens are actually misunderstood creatures bullied by humans? Please... don't Blomkamp!).

While Chappie is likable, his "parents"... Are not... You get that Blomkamp is going for the missunderstood minority and oppressed group. But honestly... I never felt any empathy for these people. They are scum. They manipulate and abuse chappie because he has the mind of a child. Just because they are the "oppressed", doesn't mean that we are suppose to care for them. These are bad people and you will want them to die, so that Chappie can break free from their influence.

Blomkamp knows how to shoot good action scenes and make breath taking sci-fi worlds. It is a shame that the South African director feels the need to create an analogy to the apartheid in all the movies he makes.

Blomkamp is on his way to become the next M night shyamalan. He needs to let the all "oppressed" in a sci-fi setting go, and show us that he can make something new and refreshing.