The 10 Dumbest Things In Chappie

The 10 Dumbest Things in Chappie

Chappie, the latest film from the once-promising Neill Blomkamp, is one of the most ineptly written films of the last few years. In this post, I take a look at the movie's ten dumbest moments. An obvious SPOILER WARNING but, given that this is a pretty terrible movie, who actually cares?

1. Chappie beats  up a character whilst screaming “No more violence!”. Go figure
2.  The film subtitles a perfectly comprehensible English-speaking character in only one of his scenes for no reason
3. At the end of a scene in which Ninja and Amerika are negotiating with fellow criminals, Ninja randomly says he wants the roughly 20 PS4s in the room. He then proceeds to never use them again, because product placement
4. Chappie uses a neural transmitter to upload his conciousness, despite the fact that he's a robot, so doesn't have neurons
5. When he discovers Hugh Jackman's plan, Dev Patel yells "Everyone will know", before proceeding to tell absolutely no-one. It later transpires that this was to allow for a final act
6. The complete lack of security for a multi-national corporation that manages not to notice: the coding key being stolen, Chappie being stolen, Hugh Jackman sabotaging the entire police force, Dev Patel's conciousness being transferred to a robot and a brand new robot (with a completely different Yolandi-alike design) being built after the project was discontinued
7. The main antagonist's entire motivation being "is religious", which is signified by him doing the cross symbol every two minutes and half of his dialogue being "What in the name of the lord?"
8. Jackman pulls a gun on Patel in the middle of an office and absolutely no-one even bats an eyelid
9. Tetravaal still have the machinery needed to create new machines (despite having discontinued the manufacture of any new robots) to allow for a sequel. Bastards.
10. The entire presence of Die Antwoord. Just...no.

Have you seen Chappie? Did you enjoy it? Did you notice any issues not mentioned here? What other films would you like me to completely over-think? Let me know in the comments below!