A different way of telling a story

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

I watched this movie three month after his reléase in teathers, i liked the movie although has strong language And too violent, but i can't understand why critcs and other audience hates too much. Having only 30 up 100 in rotten tomatoes and 6.8 here is really worth seeing because has a good message, and is too different compared with others sci Fi movies, i think this movie would ve remember like a cult movie.

After watching Elysium and Chappie, two garbage movies by Blomkamp, the main question is: who made the brilliant movie District 9?!!!! Why his movies getting worse, time by time? Peter Jackson was the main factor for his first huge success in making District 9?!!! I wish District 9 was his first and final movie.

I know the Short Circuit franchise was before many modern young people were even able to see it. But Johnny 5 was also a lethal robot designed for the military, not the police force. And he also dealt with evil people\bad situations too.Chappie is a good movie for youngsters maybe, but I just wasn't feeling it too much. Die Antwoord(Ninja & Yolandi) overacted IMO too.

The basic storyline should have been OK - gangsters steal a police robot that happens to be an AI prototype, and reprograms/trains it to act for them - helped by the AI expert. However it is nonsense that the AI expert having been kidnapped, beaten up and then released by the gangsters, keeps returning to them and his robot again and again, effectively assisting the gangsters. He does this out of of love for his AI prototype (which has a ridulously cute personality) and his wish to teach it art and poetry. It does not occur to him to inform the police of the theft and the gangsters whereabouts, nor to the gangsters that he might do so. SInce the stolen robot is physically a standard model, and the AI program looks like it is on an SD card, you wonder why the AI expert could not have continued his experiments with another robot another time. Did he fail to keep a copy of the AI software?