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Chappie

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Chappie is a science fiction film from director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium), based on his short film Tetra Vaal. The cast stars longtime Blomkamp collaborator Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Watkin Tudor Jones (aka NINJA) and Yolandi Visser from music group Die Antwoord, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, and Hugh Jackman.

In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.  As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind.

“The idea was to take something as unhuman as a robot – especially a police robot – and give him complete human characteristics, to the point that he becomes more emotional than the human characters,” says Blomkamp. “That’s the backbone of the irony of the movie – a police droid becomes sentient, and begins to display characteristics that are more moral, ethical, and conscientious than human beings tend to.”

Chappie is rated 14A. Read our review here.

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