Ranking March 2015’s Movies From Worst To Best

12. Chappie

RottenTomatoes Score: 30% (4.9/10 average) Box Office: Produced for $49 million (a relatively modest amount given the effects-heavy nature of the film), Chappie has made $71.9 million worldwide to date. Though the movie took the #1 spot in its opening weekend, it was a particularly soft week for releases, and the film just hasn't shown the legs necessary to make it a significant financial success on the level of Neil Blomkamp's previous works, District 9 ($210.8 million) and Elysium ($286.1 million). The Verdict: Easily Blomkamp's weakest work to date, Chappie has an intriguing premise yet, once again, it's the director's screenplay which fails to come up trumps. The visual effects help bring the titular character to life adequately, but not enough of interest is done with him, and too many of the film's major beats feel shamelessly stolen from vastly superior films. Most criminally, despite featuring a protagonist audiences are supposed to bond with, Chappie feels emotionally neutered, and nothing else in the film can possibly compensate for that. It doesn't do enough with its great cast (including Sigourney Weaver, Dev Patel and Hugh Jackman), and it just gets far too silly by the end.