Hear me out: why Chappie isn’t a bad movie

The latest in our series of writers sticking up for maligned films is a defence of Neill Blomkamp’s unusual robot adventureThe Irish Times published one of the most aggrieved reviews of Neill Blomkamp’s 2015 film Chappie, dismissing it with a single star rating and calling it “chaotic, discordant, sentimental and downright ugly”.

Well: yes, yes, yes and yes! Correct! It is absolutely all of those things.

Wonderfully so.Related: Hear me out: why Dirty Grandpa isn’t a bad movie

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