Saw
Chappie today. I really liked it.
Yes, Hugh Jackman was not used to full potential. Give the role to anyone else, and it won't even make a bit of difference. But the movie itself was quite entertaining.
The robot Chappie was quite humorous and provided such laughs throughout the movie that few Sci Fi movie does. Yes, the movie did include lot of aspects from other sci fi movies, and it did so without coming under the pressure of "explaining" things. What I mean probably is that the movie tried to bring forth what happens next, and didn't spent much on "how" it's done, and in the technicalities of AI.
I was initially reluctant for Dev Patel, but his performance was good. He did came out to be high on testosterone throughout the movie and which specially suited the scenes where he got high on Red Bull while coding.
One interesting fact is that the character of Yolandi, was performed by little known actress whose actual name was Yolandi ("Yo-Landi Visser"). I found the performance of her as a moral support for Chappie quite good. Her interactions with Chappie was very humorous many times. Lots of laughter bursts from the audience throughout the movie.
A thing which I didn't really understand was why they were using what it seemed like DOS based interface if the story is somewhat futuristic with Robots and all. But they did were using Linux as evident from the scenes. Quite some bunch of geek coders. File names were very conveniently named as CONSCIOUSNESS.DAT files. Nice.
Definitely worth the watch in theater.