At
least in terms of its themes, if Pinocchio, Oliver Twist,
Robocop, and Short
Circuit ever got bored and
decided to start fucking then Chappie
would be the spunky mess that gets left on the bed sheets. Set in the
near future, Johannesburg has become so shitty that the South African
government has had to invest in a squadron of attack robots to try
and stem the flow of crime. These cyborgs have pinpoint accuracy,
armour plating, and are as ruthlessly efficient at stopping
wrong-doers as the American police are with little, unarmed, black
children. Meanwhile the robots creator Dev Patel has just figured
out how to make his products a little less murdery and a little more
thinky which he celebrates by having Chappie, his prototype, promptly
stolen from him by a couple of criminals. By coincidence, it's also
worth noting that the two kidnappers are two of the biggest
fuck-nuggets I've ever seen... more on them later I suppose.
Essentially Chappie
tells the story of the worlds first, completely sentient robot, and
how it's forced to choose its morality whilst simultaneously learning
the hard facts about how shite our species really is.
