Stars - Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver
Story - In Johannesburg there is a new robotic police force that is doing a bang up job. The company that provides the robots it celebrating their success and an order for 100 more robots. Deon is the man who invented the robots an its trying to create a sentient robot, and wants more for the robots than just taking orders and following protocol. Vincent, a former soldier, created a big bulky robot called the MOOSE that is controlled by a human, and is antiquated before it even came to fruition.
We also meet a small gang of thugs, that for unknown reason owe another thug millions of dollars for a botched heist of some unknown substance(it was some gross-ish back of a van). With that the group of thugs decided they need a remote to turn off the robots and kidnap Deon so they can do some big heist. No remote but he says he has a program that he can put in an empty robot and then they can teach him to do anything
They teach him to be hood, but Deon comes back and teaches him to be truthful and honest and to be good. They teach him to steal cars, and then fool him into hurting people so they can rob an armored truck to get the money they need to pay the other thug off. There is also some drama between Deon and Vincent, and by the way CHAPPiE only has 5 days worth of battery.
What Did I think - It was a bit of a disappointment. It wasn't horrible, but I think it needed a little bit of cleaning up plot-wise. The best part of the movie was Hugh in his tight Khakis. #ILoveBigBUTTS!
I was really looking forward to this movie as I really like Neil Blomkamp and it looked like it would be kind of like the Short Circuit of its time. The movie looked great and the technology was amazing. It was funny in places, a bit touching, and full of action.
Hugh, Dev and Sharlto were great in it, but Yolandi and Ninja(yes those are the characters names and their real name) were kind of annoying and a bit too much. Sigourney was way under used, but she could read a phone book and I would be happy.
This is one that you can take it or leave it, go see it and tell me what you think.
Snack & Bevies - Smarties, Fritos and a BOS Apple Ice tea
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