Artificial intelligent premise has been done so many times, the recent Transcendence and Automata come to mind. Most of them fail to utilize this classic futuristic formula. Now a lot of hope rests on Neill Blomkamp's shoulders to put unique twist, and although Chappie has some decent visual effects, it is excruciatingly bland, juvenile and overly quirky to establish any sort of emotional connection. It worked slick as hell in District 9, failed a bit flat in Elysium. But in Chappie, there really is no end to the logical flaws, extremely underdeveloped characters, rushed, fairytale of an excuse of a storyline to push events in the movie forward etc.
