Director Neill Blomkamp’s latest sci-fi work, “Chappie,” explores a futuristic world patrolled by a robotic police force. Blomkamp’s creative yet realistic cinematography and original storylines in ...
Intelligence, artificial or otherwise, is one of the major casualties of “Chappie,” a robot-themed action movie that winds up feeling as clunky and confused as the childlike droid with which it shares ...
In the sun-drenched landscape of a dystopian Johannesburg, Chappie unfolds not as a typical hi-tech thriller, but a modern-day fable about artificial intelligence (AI) – and emotional intelligence.
NEW YORK - What happens when artificial intelligence thinks for itself? That's the basis of Chappie, a film set in the near future in Johannesburg South Africa, where robotic police droids are keeping ...
After a promising start with District 9, it has been straight downhill for writer-director Neill Blomkamp. That 2009 film won four Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture. But his follow-up, ...
Didn't we just do this? Paul Verhoeven's 1987 futuristic satire RoboCop got a watery remake only a year ago. But if you took Chappie – the third trigger-happy dystopian sci-fi from Neill Blomkamp, the ...
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Neill Blomkamp is full of good ideas. He’s a visionary. With three features now under his belt the South African filmmaker has quickly become one of the most recognized names working in the sci-fi ...