Chappie
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 6, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
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Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
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8
Mixed:
20
Negative:
11
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38
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 5, 2015
Blomkamp and his wife and co-writer, Terri Tatchell, stack the deck. Instead of awe, we get "E.T." - aww. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 5, 2015
Despite Blomkamp’s efforts to make some kind of commentary about the human soul, which the auteur bolsters with his trademark social consciousness — a tone of preachiness that, after three films, has worn out its welcome — the movie exhibits precious little humanity. Read full review
30
SalonAndrew O'HehirMar 6, 2015
It’s not just that Chappie is a mishmash of familiar ingredients whose story quickly slides off the rails into a swamp of action-movie clichés, or another misbegotten project from the Land of Intriguing Premises. It doesn’t have an intriguing premise in the first place. It’s cluttered, goofy and incoherent from beginning to end, and much too long. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMar 4, 2015
With unappealing one-note characters, retread concepts and implausible motivations, Chappie is a further downward step for director Neill Blomkamp. Read full review
30
VarietyJustin ChangMar 4, 2015
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 its name. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiMar 6, 2015
An exhausting slog through overly familiar cliches that is nowhere near as profound or touching as it clearly thinks it is and is utterly lacking in the kind of intelligence and artistry that it so often pays lip service to in the dialogue. Read full review
25
New York PostLou LumenickMar 5, 2015
“Short Circuit” meets “RoboCop” — with asides to “WALL-E,” “E.T.,” “The Road Warrior” and many other better movies — in Chappie, an interminable, violent, incoherent and wearying R-rated sci-fi action comedy. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChris CabinMar 5, 2015
The film's exasperating atonality washes out any legitimate idea about identity, education, nature versus nurture, or artificial intelligence that Neill Blomkamp hoped to evince. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 4, 2015
Wrongheaded in conception, eye-rolling in execution, Chappie is a childish blend of the cute robot goofiness of “Short Circuit,” and the bloody-minded mayhem of “Robocop.” Neill Blomkamp, the director of “District 9,” has utterly exhausted his supply of South African sci-fi ideas with this disaster, an excruciating two hours of your life you will fear, quite rightly, ever getting back. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMar 5, 2015
Chappie is a movie about the evolution of artificial intelligence that's as dumb as a post. It also marks the continuing devolution of the work of director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 5, 2015
A misjudgment from metallic head to titanium toe. Read full review
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