Chappie - 6/10
I don't quite know what rating to give it, since I'm still not very sure how I feel about it. Not that it was a movie that leaves you with much to think about, but I need to dwell on it before I can decide whether or not I even liked it. It certainly wasn't a great movie, for sure. It was overly cheesy, and the morals are very on the surface.
When you're dealing with a movie made by a husband/wife team that graduated from Vancouver Film School, I want to give them more leeway, but the script and the directing came off as very amateurish. Outside of the high level production values, sublime FX, and the big actors, you could have fooled me into thinking it was a film students grad project.
There were a lot of moments that leaped in logic, or where people stopped acting like people. I don't get why the CEO of a multi billion dollar robotics company would have zero interest in the worlds first conscious AI. Nor do I get why Hugh Jackman's super military mech was only shopped to the local police force like it could serve no other function.
I did like the actual Chappie character though, at least before the ending. when the aforementioned cheesiness gets taken to another level.
After watching this, I do think Blomkamp needs to step away from the whole postapocalyptic war motif. I don't know what that means in regards to his rumoured Alien 5 production though. (On a side note, thank god he said he'd like to just avoid the third and fourth movies and pretend they never happened)