This year the whole world is waiting for a new attempt to revive the old Arnie franchise defunct 24 years ago. But it looks like it’s time to forget about the struggle of family Connor with machines “Skynet”. The world rushes theaters young and promising director Neill Blomkamp of South Africa with its own history of robots, so fresh and original, as it is possible for meynstrimovogo cinema in 2015.
In the near future, the South African company “Tetravaal” engaged in the production of “smart weapons” under the leadership of the Iron Lady Michelle Bradley (Sigourney Weaver, “Alien”), is a sensational novelty. “Scouts”, anthropomorphic machines equipped with advanced artificial intelligence, cheap, unpretentious and easy to use, reliable and obedient, in general, a miracle of technology. The police party buys such robots and use them to destroy the accelerated pace of urban crime Johannesburg.
The inventor, a genius programmer Dion Wilson (Dev Patel, “Slumdog Millionaire”) basks in the glory, but in my heart cherishes another dream – to create the perfect mind, the ability to learn and work. For this purpose, he steals written off to the scrap “scout” who during his lifetime too neglected third law of robotics, and with the help of Red Bull and mounting it finally manages to carry out his plan.
However, not having even been born mechanical child falls into the hands of bandits caricature-dunce by popular hipster circles ensemble Die Antwoord, who intend to use Chappy their criminal purposes. At the same time, another employee “Tetravaala” Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman, “Real Steel”), resentful evil warrior, dreams revenge on his rival. In addition, he has his own creation – a bipedal tank flying named “Moose”, not controlled by computer programs, and man, and able to shoot down nuclear warheads and turn entire neighborhoods in the concrete chips. And Moore strongly disagree with the fact that such a curious thing has remained unclaimed.
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Surprisingly, all this jumble of characters and storylines not only compact fits in the first half hour of screen time, but continues to roll on rails famously script until the very end, which, unfortunately or fortunately, clearly hinting at a future sequel. Neil Blomkamp was able to invest in film and drama about growing up and the problem of fathers and children, and armor-piercing action, not forgetting to give due attention to important issues of science fiction as an opportunity to transfer human consciousness into a digital format, or the definition of the boundaries between human and robot.
The local ensemble cast acts out his role at one hundred percent. Mad villain, a talented inventor and father of a difficult child in one person, as well as a female chief with an unbending will – all the images in the film and bulk solid and credible characters and live. And even if at first want to find fault with the gangster antics of the guys from Die Antwoord, playing most of ourselves, by the end of the picture is the desire to somehow evaporates. There are no claims to the picture: it is bright, juicy and colorful landscapes of the South African metropolis give it freshness. The dynamics of the story further emphasizes the soundtrack: the composition of the master Hans Zimmer cleverly contrasted with cheerful songs aforementioned Die Antwoord. Stroke is undoubtedly a bold and non-obvious.
Of course, without all sorts of references and allusions not done. So, Johannesburg occasionally pretends to Detroit from the saga of Robocop, local army robopolitseyskih portrays Alex Murphy, and the protagonist copies of drawing Sunny, the character of the film “I, Robot” and it is only a few examples of the many.
Sadly, today’s film fans have to live in the difficult time of sequels and remakes, as any more or less original work is perceived as an event. All the more gratifying that the “robot named Chappy” – is not just another popkornovy blockbuster, but really not boring tape with neizbity plot and idea. Azimov “Bicentennial Man” needed to die to become a man. Chappy was enough for five days to prove that death – it’s just the beginning, and it does not matter in this case, what you’re made: of flesh from the blood or from titanium and chips.
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