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Mar 20, 2015

CHAPPiE Movie Review

Neill Blomkamp will have to think it differently and move out from this Robotic genre next time he thinks about making a movie. Seriously, its getting repetitive from the director of District 9 and Elysium as his third film CHAPPiE does not give much excitement except may be the final half hour of the film. Other than this portion, rest of the film is a disappointment that mostly run on borrowed ideas and stuffs seen many times in many other robotic movies.
The film is set in South Africa, Johannesburg to be specific where Robotic Police Unit is patrolling the city and looking after their security needs. Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) is the man who is behind these artificially created Intelligence and crime prevention robotic units.
Deon is trying his best to create a robot which is more humane in nature but he can't execute his plans due to some restrictions from the Technology company he works for. At the same a group of gangsters unable to run their business threaten Deon to create something similar for them to take advantage of this. This leads to the creation of CHAPPiE from a damaged robot, a robot that can think and act like a human being. In summary CHAPPiE is a robot more with human personality. Events that unfold in Johannesburg after the creation of CHAPPiE is what rest of the film showcase.
The writing seems a bit dragging especially in the middle portion and since the concept is a worn out one, there is nothing much to excite and keeps you engaged till the end. Some of the characters are also half baked especially the one played by Hugh Jackman. Occasional fun and action is there but in totality the film with all its cliches runs out of steam to end on a high.
On screen, Dev Patel enacted his role of the Intelligent Deon working in the technology company with ease while Hugh Jackman seems to be a wasted character in the antagonist role. The guys and one lady from the gangsters group of three was okay with rest of the supporting actors. Technically, i would say the visual effects were packaged well and camera work and edits were also fine but that doesn't make any big deal to lift the film overall and give a life to CHAPPie the movie.
I didn't find this movie anything close in the range of an average one and for an entertaining robotic experience, there are better Robotic movies that you can watch again and again. The rating is a disappointing two out of five for Neill Blomkamp's third movie that is more of a childish stuff in a bigger canvas.
Rating - 2 / 5

1 comment:

  1. I went into this movie expecting it to be a sort of cross between Short Circuit and Robocop. And, to a large degree, that’s what I got.

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