After the disappointment of 2013’s ‘Elysium’ – Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to his superb 2009 debut ‘District 9’ – our expectations were low for the 35-year-old South African filmmaker’s latest effort, the cybernetic action comedy ‘Chappie’. So imagine our surprise when ‘Chappie’ turned out to be every bit as mad, messy and ideas-packed as ‘District 9’, featuring one of the most lovable heroes in recent movie memory. Here's what we love about it.
Ten things we love about ‘Chappie’
Here’s why we’re seriously impressed by ‘District 9’ writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s third sci-fi film
2. The special effects
3. Hugh Jackman’s mullet
4. The accents
5. Die Antwoord
6. Johannesburg
7. The ideas
8. The violence
9. The weirdness
10. It gets us seriously excited for ‘Alien 5’
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With its stunning urban landscapes, trash-talking titanium hero and mulleted, God-bothering bad guy (Hugh Jackman, never better), this hugely entertaining oddity could never be mistaken for the work of any other filmmaker.
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