Bejasa, Sheena Gae

Cuevas, Junix Jgenvo A

Dinglasan, Karl Anthony A.

Falogme, Anthony M.

ME5-3

Chappie Film Review

The movie starts with police robots that fight bad people and crimes until the
robot 22 got damaged. And the maker creates a code for the robot to have its
consciousness and behave like a real person. A skyrocketing crime rate leads the city of
Johannesburg to buy a squadron of scouts state of the armour plated attack robots from
weapons manufacturer Tetravaal. These autonomous androids are developed by British
scientist Deon Wilson and largely supplant the overwhelmed human police force. A
competing project within the company is the remotely controlled MOOSE, developed by
Australian soldier-turned-engineer Vincent Moore. Deon is praised for Tetravaal's
success but Vincent grows envious when the police are unwilling to give his heavy
weapons platform equal attention. Because his works too expensive and big for the
army. At home, Deon creates a prototype artificial intelligence that mimics a human
mind to the point of feeling emotions and having opinions, but his boss Michelle refuses
to let him test the A.I. on a police robot. Until Deon made a decision to steal a recently
damaged robot before it is destroyed and puts it in his van. On his way home, he is
kidnapped by three criminals, Ninja, Yolandi, and Amerika, who threaten to kill him
unless he reprograms a police robot to help them steal. Deon installs the new software
into the damaged robot, which responds like a child. Deon and Yolandi calm the robot,
teaching it words and naming it "Chappie". Despite Deon wanting to stay with the robot
but Ninja forces him out in their hideout. Ninja's gang only has a few days to pay a debt
of 20 million rand. Yolandi sees Chappie as a child and wants to mother him, but Ninja
grows impatient with his development due to both the impending deadline for the debt
and Chappie's irreplaceable battery running out, giving him days to live. Ninja tries to
train Chappie to be a gangster by leaving him in a dangerous neighborhood to fend for
himself. After being wounded by thugs, he is followed by Vincent, who plans to
deactivate all Tetravaal scouts except for MOOSE. Vincent successfully extracts the
guard key for his own use, but the traumatized Chappie escapes and returns to the
hideout. Yolandi scolds Ninja for this mistreatment, but he manages to earn Chappie's
forgiveness by training him in martial arts and weapon handling. Ninja and Amerika trick
Chappie into stealing cars for them, and lie about needing the money to replace his
dying body. At Tetravaal, Vincent uses the guard key to upload a virus, thus sabotaging
and disabling all scouts including Chappie. Johannesburg's criminals immediately run
rampant in the streets, and Deon brings Chappie to the Tetravaal factory to fix him.
After being restarted, Chappie notices a helmet used to control MOOSE. At the hideout,
he re-engineers it to allow him to transfer his consciousness into a computer, so he can
change bodies when his current one dies. Ninja's gang uses Chappie to rob an armored
car, an act which is caught on the news, prompting Tetravaal to pursue him. When
Chappie learns that Ninja's plan to acquire the body was a lie, he prepares to kill Ninja
for betrayal. However, Deon arrives to warn them that Michelle has ordered that
Chappie be destroyed. At that moment, the MOOSE robot (controlled remotely by
Vincent) is launched to assassinate Deon and Chappie at the hideout, at the same time
that Hippo arrives to collect his debt. Amerika and Hippo are killed in the ensuing battle,
while Deon is mortally wounded. When Ninja is about to be killed, Yolandi sacrifices
herself to save him and Chappie destroys MOOSE by detonating a bomb.

Enraged by Yolandi's death, Chappie drives Deon to the factory, storms into an office,
and fiercely beats Vincent close to death. He then transfers the dying Deon's
consciousness into a spare robot through the modified MOOSE helmet. In return, the
now-robotic Deon wirelessly transfers Chappie's consciousness into one of the nearby
disabled scouts. Deon and Chappie go into hiding as the police discontinue their
contract with Tetravaal. While burning memorabilia of Yolandi, the grieving Ninja finds a
box containing a doll copy of her and a flash drive marked "Mommy's Consciousness
Test Backup" which contains a copy of Yolandi's consciousness that Chappie took while
testing the device on her. Chappie hacks into Tetravaal's manufacturing facility, builds a
robot resembling Yolandi, and uploads the drive's contents.

Upon viewing the movie, it is a great movie and it is cool. Especially the last part
that Chappie save his maker by saving his consciousness and transferring it to a robot.
Until he also wants his mother’s go back so he save her mother consciousness. The
problem here in the movie is that Deon steals the robot and made his own code that the
company didn’t allow until the gang kidnaps him and it causes more problems and
troubles, Chappie became their child. They treat Chappie as their child but Ninja lied to
him about making crimes, Chappie doesn’t want to make crimes so Ninja and Amerika
fools him. Chappie didn’t want to commit a crime because he promises his maker. Also
robotics has three laws, first is robots may not injure a human being or allowing a
human being to come to harm. Second is that a robot must obey the orders given it by
human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law. Third is robot
must protects its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first
and second laws. And in this movie the three laws have been violated. So it causes
more and more conflicts and problems. They use Chappie in crimes. Until Vincent’s
creation fights for the crimes but it is also violating the laws of robotics. Until Deon got
hurt and Chappie saves him by saving his consciousness and transferring it to the
robot. Our insights about this human like robot is that we shouldn’t give him a
consciousness like people because it would ruin’s people everyday living. We should
use robots in legal purposes like in the start of the movie. They are just using it as a
help to the police, it would be a great help if we should just code it for its function. And
we shouldn’t break the three laws of robotics.