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Nov 03, 2016ManMachine rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
So, f-f-f-folks - I'm seriously asking myself - What, exactly, was former Vancouver Film School student, Neill Blomkamp trying to tell me here with his latest Sci-Fi offering - Chappie? Was he trying to tell me that even in South Africa it was the whites, not the blacks, who were the nastiest, most ruthless (and most laughably tattooed and hair-doed) criminals of all? And, was he also trying to tell me that he was (in the incarnation of Chappie) desperately looking for a surrogate "mommy" (whether she was of flesh and blood, or not)? Anyway - I'd say that this brain-dead, Sci-Fi clunker about a robot who was part neurotic child (duh!), part bad-ass crack-head (double duh!), and part "WTF!?" idiot (triple duh!), literally, scraped the absolute bottom of the barrel when it came to its totally tiresome and truly predictable storytelling. This poorly-conceived, $50 million production was so obviously geared to a juvenile mindset (even though it was restricted) that I was actually surprised to find out that Disney Studios didn't have their grubby, story-ruining fingers in this messy, little Chappie-pie.