Chappie

Cast: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Watkin Tudor Jones(Ninja), Yolandi Visser(Yolandi) and Jose Pablo Cantillo(Amerika)
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Crime, Action



I expected it be a movie more for adults than kids, its the other way around! This one is a disappointing watch! If you can sit through the first half, you may as well like the second half!



You may look forward to:

• Chappie, the Robot is very convincingly sweet. He feels so real that you tend to forget its cinematic only. Robots really look like the near future, and a thinking robot like Chappie can add a whole new dimension to the world we know, for good or for bad :) Chappie, nevertheless impresses mostly in the second half where he takes over the movie to himself :) Appreciate the job done by Sharlto Copley in lending Chappie his voice!
• Dev Patel got a pretty role in here, he is more or less the hero of the movie in its first half. Though the movie keeps doing rounds around Chappie, but he holds the next significant best role here
• Watkin Tudor Jones,Yolandi Visser and Jose Pablo Cantillo are funny, less of gangster and more for entertainment factor. They try their best entertaining you, provided you can accept their weird knack of caressing the Baby Chappie as respective 'Daddy' and 'Mommy' :P
• Post interval, the movie picks up with Chappie emerging out as the lead. The second half has enough contents to keep you at your seat and to keep you hoping for something to come and salvage your time and money from first half

What you can sleep over:

Oh Boy! Hugh Jackman wasted so so so so bad. Its very disheartening for me to write that i hated his role and him in this movie. I have no idea what made him sign a movie with as much idiotic role as this!! He just has no significant screen presence, nor a decent role of an antagonist. You cant help but relate him with 'Real Steel' and that is such a let down. But he is yet Hugh Jackman :) So i cant just count him in negatives, Sigh!!

The dampeners you should be aware of:

• When you watch a Sci-Fi movie, you wish to draw some sense out of what is shown. Yes, a lot of aspects just didn't seem to be making enough sense. The most unforgiving one of all being this that Chappie with a metal body, minus any additional hardware, just with the help of a software chip can not only feel emotions, can as well feel and distinguish the touch! What was the Director thinking?
• The script of the movie is the major dampener. First half is unbearable. There is just no good direction to where the story is headed to! Even worse as you see the gangsters nurturing the robot, becoming soft hearted suddenly and being friendly with it, telling it bedtime stories and what not! Utter rubbish! This movie raises a big question to me- If this flick can raise this much of moolah, what failed with our Bollywood Sci-Fi drama 'Love Story 2050' :D :D :D Food for thought! :)

My Rating: 2.5/5 (Only for the second half)