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Neil Blomkamp loves robots and aliens more than human beings and maybe that’s why all his stories so far have had something to do with the man versus machine concept. After making his smashing debut in 2009 blockbuster ‘District 9,’ Neil became a much sought after filmmaker. But the overnight success didn’t last long as his big budget sci-fi drama ‘Elysium,’ his second film turned out to be a disaster. And his latest outing ‘Chappie’ feels like it’s been made from nuts and bolts of his earlier films and the pieces don’t fit the way they should.
In ‘Chappie,’ he envisions a world where robots aid police force in bringing down the crime rate. They don’t just aid, but even risk their lives to save their human counterparts. In one such operation, a droid gets severely broken beyond repair.
Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) is the chief designer of the robots that have been successfully assisting the Johannesburg police department in fighting crime and his organization is proud of his work. But Deon has been secretly working on a programme that will allow robots to have a mind of their own, behave and feel like humans with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). When he pitches the idea, his boss doesn’t approve, forcing him to illegally test it on the broken droid.
Deon’s ambitious plan goes for a toss when he is kidnapped by a group of gangsters, who plan to use him to programme a robot to help them pull off a big heist. Deon reprogrammes the broken droid with AI, and Chappie is born.
Neil Blomkamp loves robots and aliens more than human beings and maybe that’s why all his stories so far have had something to do with the man versus machine concept. After making his smashing debut in 2009 blockbuster ‘District 9,’ Neil became a much sought after filmmaker. But the overnight success didn’t last long as his big budget sci-fi drama ‘Elysium,’ his second film turned out to be a disaster. And his latest outing ‘Chappie’ feels like it’s been made from nuts and bolts of his earlier films and the pieces don’t fit the way they should.
In ‘Chappie,’ he envisions a world where robots aid police force in bringing down the crime rate. They don’t just aid, but even risk their lives to save their human counterparts. In one such operation, a droid gets severely broken beyond repair.
Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) is the chief designer of the robots that have been successfully assisting the Johannesburg police department in fighting crime and his organization is proud of his work. But Deon has been secretly working on a programme that will allow robots to have a mind of their own, behave and feel like humans with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). When he pitches the idea, his boss doesn’t approve, forcing him to illegally test it on the broken droid.
Deon’s ambitious plan goes for a toss when he is kidnapped by a group of gangsters, who plan to use him to programme a robot to help them pull off a big heist. Deon reprogrammes the broken droid with AI, and Chappie is born.
