Chappie
2015 · Movie · R · 120 min · ★ 6.8 · 37% critics
In a near-future city, a promising AI project leads to the creation of a robot who experiences life like a child. Influenced by good and bad surroundings, it searches for its own identity while a tense conflict over robots and control escalates around it.
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Details
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-03-04
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 37/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (8,487 votes)
- Box office
- $102,069,268
- Budget
- $49,000,000
About
If you want an emotional robot coming-of-age story with sci-fi morality themes and plenty of momentum, you’ll likely enjoy Chappie; Not for you if you dislike mixed tones or trope-heavy AI plots like Elysium or District 9.
Pros: standout robot emotions; big sci-fi ideas; often entertaining | Cons: derivative tropes; messy pacing; uneven story
Themes
- future
- android
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- dystopia
- johannesburg, south africa
- robot
- robot cop
- cyber thriller
Cast & crew
Sharlto Copley
as Chappie
Dev Patel
as Deon Wilson
Hugh Jackman
as Vincent Moore
Ninja
as Ninja
Yo-Landi Visser
as Yo-Landi
Sigourney Weaver
as Michelle Bradley
Chris Shields
as Journalist
Anderson Cooper
as Anderson Cooper
Jose Pablo Cantillo
as Yankie (Amerika)
Brandon Auret
as Hippo
Directed by Neill Blomkamp