The next movie to be reviewed will be "Chappie" movie. I will be listing some good and bad things about the movie while kind of giving it a summary of what happens. There is a lot of ****SPOILERS **** in this review so if you haven't seen the movie yet I wouldn't read this further until after watching it.
The movie starts off with a lot of police droids monitoring the city and maintaining law. These droids, which are lightweight and have structures like humans, were created by a guy in the movie named Deon Wilson -- played by Dev Patel. His creations are the perfect police droids but there is an opposition in the movie. Because Vincent Moore -- played by Hugh Jackman -- is trying to get his huge robot droid approved for use but is nowhere near good as Deon Wilson's droids. I actually like the setup in the movie because it allows for a good conflict in the movie. Without this conflict the movie concept would have been flat.
Deon Wilson though is seen through the movie struggling to create a program that will give a robot the ability to have feelings and think like a human. This leads Deon Wilson to steal a droid that was almost destroyed in a previous gun battle against a gang of criminals. Deon is able to upload a chip that is able to give the robot the ability to learn stuff like a human. This is a good setup for the movie because it allows the robot to learn stuff and keep the movie interesting. In addition it adds a lot of comedic elements to the movie that keeps the audience entertained so it was a welcomed addition.
Before this droid being hurt in a battle with criminals another gang leader known as Ninja played by "Watkin Tudor Jones" is trying to pay off a debt to those criminals from the beginning of the movie. NInja has a squad of people under his belt including his love interest Yolandi Visser. Together they need to pay back millions of dollars to a major criminal mastermind in order to avoid death. Ninja and his crew decide to kidnap Deon Wilson to try and get him to turn off all the robots he has created. Although Deon states that he is unable to do so but the robot he has with him named "Chappie" by Yolandi is to be used by them. Deon sets conditions that he wants to come by and teach the robot how to do art and learn other types of stuff. This part of the movie confused me because they had chappie acting like a kid while learning new stuff. I think this brought about the wrong sense of the movie because a robot can learn to do stuff without acting like a child. The main premise of the movie was that the robot starts off as a child and then learns to do stuff like humans.
Ninja teaches the robot to do gang stuff like steal cars, and commit crime. On the other hand Deon wants to teach the robot how to be a human and do good deeds. Throughout the movie Chappie becomes attached to Yolandi, who defends him a lot from Ninja. I think that this part of the movie was pretty dull they could have spiced up this part of the script slightly by adding a few other things. Maybe they could have had Chappie go out with Yolandi into the city and get reactions from the townsfolk -- the movie just needed something different.
During this time Vincent is plotting to shutdown all the police droids in the city so that Sigourney Weaver's character -- plays a company CEO that decides about what robots are used for police use -- can approve Vincent's big robots. Towards the end of the movie Chappie is approved for death by the company CEO and Hugh Jackman goes to kill Chappie with his big clunky operated droid robot. At this time the main mastermind criminal from the beginning of the movie goes after Ninja and his crew. Deon goes to save his robot Chappie, and Chappie attempts to protect all the people he is attached too. Chappie is able to take out Vincents big droid and then later on Vincent ends up being crushed by Chappie. This part of the movie adds a lot of action so it is a good part of the movie. The only problem is that this action comes at the end of the movie only. To make the movie better the director should have had more action throughout the movie not just the beginning and end.
In the end of the movie Deon Wilson is hurt but chappie finds a way to transfer his consciousness to another robot body like his. This allows Deon to live as a droid like chappie at the end of the movie. In addition Yolandi dies but chappie saved his "mother" -- Yolandi -- by putting her mind on a hard drive stick. The movie ends with Chappie and his creator Deon living together with Ninja and then activating Yolandi. I think the end part of the movie is pretty good so I have no argument there. The movie overall was pretty good for watching some action and comedic elements. There were some points in the movie that could have been touched up slightly to keep the audience a little more engaged. The script could have used some fine tuning as well. Overall it was a good movie and should get a decent amount of sales but it is not a blockbuster type movie.
The movie starts off with a lot of police droids monitoring the city and maintaining law. These droids, which are lightweight and have structures like humans, were created by a guy in the movie named Deon Wilson -- played by Dev Patel. His creations are the perfect police droids but there is an opposition in the movie. Because Vincent Moore -- played by Hugh Jackman -- is trying to get his huge robot droid approved for use but is nowhere near good as Deon Wilson's droids. I actually like the setup in the movie because it allows for a good conflict in the movie. Without this conflict the movie concept would have been flat.
Deon Wilson though is seen through the movie struggling to create a program that will give a robot the ability to have feelings and think like a human. This leads Deon Wilson to steal a droid that was almost destroyed in a previous gun battle against a gang of criminals. Deon is able to upload a chip that is able to give the robot the ability to learn stuff like a human. This is a good setup for the movie because it allows the robot to learn stuff and keep the movie interesting. In addition it adds a lot of comedic elements to the movie that keeps the audience entertained so it was a welcomed addition.
Before this droid being hurt in a battle with criminals another gang leader known as Ninja played by "Watkin Tudor Jones" is trying to pay off a debt to those criminals from the beginning of the movie. NInja has a squad of people under his belt including his love interest Yolandi Visser. Together they need to pay back millions of dollars to a major criminal mastermind in order to avoid death. Ninja and his crew decide to kidnap Deon Wilson to try and get him to turn off all the robots he has created. Although Deon states that he is unable to do so but the robot he has with him named "Chappie" by Yolandi is to be used by them. Deon sets conditions that he wants to come by and teach the robot how to do art and learn other types of stuff. This part of the movie confused me because they had chappie acting like a kid while learning new stuff. I think this brought about the wrong sense of the movie because a robot can learn to do stuff without acting like a child. The main premise of the movie was that the robot starts off as a child and then learns to do stuff like humans.
Ninja teaches the robot to do gang stuff like steal cars, and commit crime. On the other hand Deon wants to teach the robot how to be a human and do good deeds. Throughout the movie Chappie becomes attached to Yolandi, who defends him a lot from Ninja. I think that this part of the movie was pretty dull they could have spiced up this part of the script slightly by adding a few other things. Maybe they could have had Chappie go out with Yolandi into the city and get reactions from the townsfolk -- the movie just needed something different.
During this time Vincent is plotting to shutdown all the police droids in the city so that Sigourney Weaver's character -- plays a company CEO that decides about what robots are used for police use -- can approve Vincent's big robots. Towards the end of the movie Chappie is approved for death by the company CEO and Hugh Jackman goes to kill Chappie with his big clunky operated droid robot. At this time the main mastermind criminal from the beginning of the movie goes after Ninja and his crew. Deon goes to save his robot Chappie, and Chappie attempts to protect all the people he is attached too. Chappie is able to take out Vincents big droid and then later on Vincent ends up being crushed by Chappie. This part of the movie adds a lot of action so it is a good part of the movie. The only problem is that this action comes at the end of the movie only. To make the movie better the director should have had more action throughout the movie not just the beginning and end.
In the end of the movie Deon Wilson is hurt but chappie finds a way to transfer his consciousness to another robot body like his. This allows Deon to live as a droid like chappie at the end of the movie. In addition Yolandi dies but chappie saved his "mother" -- Yolandi -- by putting her mind on a hard drive stick. The movie ends with Chappie and his creator Deon living together with Ninja and then activating Yolandi. I think the end part of the movie is pretty good so I have no argument there. The movie overall was pretty good for watching some action and comedic elements. There were some points in the movie that could have been touched up slightly to keep the audience a little more engaged. The script could have used some fine tuning as well. Overall it was a good movie and should get a decent amount of sales but it is not a blockbuster type movie.
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