Director Neill Blomkamp’s latest sci-fi work, “Chappie,” explores a futuristic world patrolled by a robotic police force. Blomkamp’s creative yet realistic cinematography and original storylines in ...

Intelligence, artificial or otherwise, is one of the major casualties of “Chappie,” a robot-themed action movie that winds up feeling as clunky and confused as the childlike droid with which it shares ...

Released in 2015 – before AI was an increasing encroachment on our day-to-day existence (for better or worse) – the film explores what it means to be alive through Chappie, a sentient, childlike ...

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From the director of District 9 and Elysium comes Chappie, starring Sharlto Copley, and Dev Patel with Sigourney Weaver and Hugh Jackman. Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none ...

After a promising start with District 9, it has been straight downhill for writer-director Neill Blomkamp. That 2009 film won four Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture. But his follow-up, ...

Didn't we just do this? Paul Verhoeven's 1987 futuristic satire RoboCop got a watery remake only a year ago. But if you took Chappie – the third trigger-happy dystopian sci-fi from Neill Blomkamp, the ...

Movie robots fall into one of three categories: the cutesy ones who do repairs (C3PO), the menacing bad guys designed to inflict pain (Mechagodzilla), and the child-like naifs who learn about the ...

"Chappie" has an identity crisis. The film tells a story better fit for PG-rated family fare, and then covers it in enough ugliness to garner a R-rating. In one scene, it's trying to make you laugh, ...

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Neill Blomkamp is full of good ideas. He’s a visionary. With three features now under his belt the South African filmmaker has quickly become one of the most recognized names working in the sci-fi ...