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'Chappie' is 10 years old, and Blomkamp's flawed humanist take on robots and AI is more relevant than ever


Neill Blomkamp's Johannesburg-set riff on Short Circuit and RoboCop wasn't a winner by any means, but it's far from soulless.

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