Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie is a passably entertaining, if crass and bombastic, sci-fi action film … if you’ve never seen Robocop. Or Short Circuit. Or Terminator 2. Or Bicentennial Man.
Will «Chappie» even surpass «District 9»? With Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, Sharlto Copley's voice and South Africa's electro duo Die Antwoord, it surely can't go wrong. Chappie is a robot. The ...