I'll begin by saying I'm a fan of District 9, it's one of my favourite sci-fi movies of this century so you can imagine how excited I was when I heard there was another movie out by the same director. I'll admit, perhaps my high expectations have somewhat clouded my opinion of Chappie because District 9 set the bar so high. However, that doesn't change the fact that I had to watch Chappie in bits and pieces over the course of 2 weeks because every time I decided to give it another chance, within a few minutes there was a scene which was so implausible, or badly written, or poorly acted that I was forced to hit the stop button again.
That pattern continued for the first 1 hour 30 minutes, playing a few minutes, stopping, then resuming a few days later. The first three quarters are just littered with problems, including mediocre acting, implausible scenarios, poor scripting and questionable casting. The robot CGI is excellent though from start to finish.
But I was relieved to find that there came a point when the movie actually improved significantly. The last 30 minutes we have a pick up of pace and the show closes very well indeed so overall it was worth persisting and finally reaching the end (although I did ask myself several times whether I would ever get there).
Worth watching for the excellent grand finale, just don't expect a movie on the level of District 9.
That pattern continued for the first 1 hour 30 minutes, playing a few minutes, stopping, then resuming a few days later. The first three quarters are just littered with problems, including mediocre acting, implausible scenarios, poor scripting and questionable casting. The robot CGI is excellent though from start to finish.
But I was relieved to find that there came a point when the movie actually improved significantly. The last 30 minutes we have a pick up of pace and the show closes very well indeed so overall it was worth persisting and finally reaching the end (although I did ask myself several times whether I would ever get there).
Worth watching for the excellent grand finale, just don't expect a movie on the level of District 9.
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