'Chappie' Review Roundup: Big Questions On How Humans Should Use Technology

With Chappie, director Neill Blomkamp returns to a futuristic South African setting of Johannesburg, just like with his hugely successful debut movie, District 9. This time the country's law and order is upheld by a police force of robots with artificial intelligence, called Scouts.

The artificial intelligence engineer of the Scouts, Deon Wilson (played by Dev Patel), makes an announcement that one of his robots has crossed over the line that separates robotic intelligence and human. Chappie, the almost human AI robot, wants to learn all there is about becoming human.