Chappie Movie Reviews
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Tom Huddleston | Time Out London
This hugely entertaining oddity could never be mistaken for the work of any other filmmaker.Read full review3.5
Amy Nicholson | Village Voice
There's something fearlessly uncool about the film, which suffers mostly from being made 30 years too late.Read full review3.4
Marc Mohan | Portland Oregonian
With a titanium body and a child's mind, Chappie is a fascinating figure, vividly rendered, enough so that you wish there was a better movie around him.Read full review3.2
Claudia Puig | USA Today
Chappie is meant to inspire questions about what it means to be human, and at times it does. However, director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp doesn't explore its intriguing premise deeply enough.Read full review3.0
Manohla Dargis | The New York Times
Even at his shakiest, Mr. Blomkamp holds your attention with stories about characters banding together to emerge from a hell not of their own making, a liberation journey that just isn’t the same old, same old when a director was born in South Africa.Read full review2.5
Bill Goodykoontz | Arizona Republic
Blomkamp regular Sharlto Copley is quite good — as Chappie, in a motion-capture performance. (He also provides the voice of the robot.) If this were somehow a commentary on man's increasing lack of humanity or something, that would be fine. Instead, it's just good work buried inside a movie made up of intriguing ideas that never really go anywhere.Read full review2.5
Drew McWeeny | HitFix
Chappie feels like Blomkamp and his co-writer Terri Tatchell had three or four different films they wanted to make, and instead of figuring out which one actually worked, they just made them all at the same time.Read full review2.1
Steve Persall | Tampa Bay Times
The movie's glaring problem is the design and execution of Chappie, whose look is unremarkable except for a pair of polymer rabbit ears ready for meme posterity.Read full review2.0
James Rocchi | TheWrap
It’s too bad that neither the philosophy nor the pyrotechnics on-screen in Chappie can distract you from your own sinking feeling that you’ve seen almost all of this before.Read full review2.0
All this publication's reviews | New York Daily News
Chappie is as subtle as a sledgehammer. The latest sci-fi action spectacle from “District 9” and “Elysium” director Neill Blomkamp is also sprawling, bombastic, deafening, ugly and ultra-violent.Read full reviewNR
Michael Phillips | Chicago Tribune
A misjudgment from metallic head to titanium toe.Read full review
