Bland, aimless badness has its virtues; you can watch, process, assess and move on from such movies with as little mental muss or fuss as their filmmakers put forth. That bad is easy, and it’s far preferable to the painful coulda-woulda-shoulda bad of “Chappie,” writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s latest average-denting trip to the plate.
Chappie
Chappie
Chappie
Bland, aimless badness has its virtues; you can watch, process, assess and move on from such movies with as little mental muss or fuss as their filmmakers put forth. That bad is easy, and it’s far preferable to the painful coulda-woulda-shoulda bad of “Chappie,” writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s latest average-denting trip to the plate.