'Chappie' is 10 years old, and Blomkamp's flawed humanist take on robots and AI is more relevant than ever

There are films that end up in oblivion and others that, like a good wine, improve with time. I may be biased, because I love Neil Blomkamp, but for me Humandroid (the international title is “Chappie”) definitely belongs to the second category, even if no one would have imagined it ten years ago. I remember well the release of this third film by the Canadian-South African director: I had sky-high expectations after the success of District 9. I l…

'Chappie' is 10 years old, and Blomkamp's flawed humanist take on robots and AI is more relevant than ever

Neill Blomkamp's Johannesburg-set riff on Short Circuit and RoboCop wasn't a winner by any means, but it's far from soulless.