'chappie' Review: A Loud And Unpleasant Robot Rehash

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Fri, 03/06/2015 - 6:47am

The South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp gave Hollywood a jolt of creative electricity with his 2009 debut, "District 9," an inventive and wickedly funny parable about space-alien apartheid on planet Earth. His disappointing follow-up, "Elysium," tackled two not-so-sexy issues -- immigration and health-care reform -- with such simplistic thinking and contrived storytelling that it seemed to come from a different director.

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'chappie' Review: A Loud And Unpleasant Robot Rehash

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