The latest in our series of writers sticking up for maligned films is a defence of Neill Blomkamp’s unusual
Robot adventure
The
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.
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