Review by Bob Ignizio
While it is by no means the first film
to concern itself with a robot possessing human-like emotions,
CHAPPIE is one of the best.
In the not too distant future, writer/director Neil Blomkamp imagines
that the police force in Johannesburg, South Africa, has been heavily
augmented by near indestructible robots designed by scientist Deon
Wilson (Dev Patel, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE).
While
these law enforcement machines are quite effective, they lack true
artificial intelligence, something their creator is actively working
on despite being told not to by his boss (Sigoruney Weaver). Deon
tries his experimental consciousness software out on a damaged unit,
but before he can get the bot up and running he's kidnapped by a gang
of small time crooks – Ninja (Ninja), Yolandi (Yolandi Visser), and
Amerika (Jose Pablo Cantillo).
