2015 · crime · action · sci-fi
Chappie
Directed by Neill Blomkamp2h 0m2015
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
Our read: Chappie (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive crime · action · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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“You want a childlike robot learning humanity amid Johannesburg chaos.”
Skip it tonight — Tonally messy sci-fi violence will frustrate more than move you.
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