Rotten Tomatoes: 31% Someone needs to tell Neill Blomkamp that he can stop making District 9 now. Perhaps he's just too attached to what is undoubtedly a great idea to not keep replaying it through different filters? As with too much of Blomkamp's work, Chappie is a case of a great idea fatally interpreted. The director clearly has an agenda to say something important, but he's just not entirely equipped to do it, and the result is a sloppy mess that doesn't know whether it wants to be more like Short Circuit or something more grown up and angry. It's not entirely unwatchable, but it's so familiar that it does feel at times like it's a cribsheet for older, better sci-fis that explore the same ground, and while "not terrible" is often used as an indication of value, shouldn't we all be aspiring to something more? By far the worst decision was casting Die Antwoord's Ninja and Yolandi as well as soundtracking the film with their bloody awful musical bilge.
