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Chappie, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Ninja, Yo-Landi Visser, Hugh Jackman, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, Brandon Auret, Johnny Selema, Anderson Cooper, Maurice Carpede, Jason Cope, Kevin Otto, Chris Shields, Robert Hobbs, Eugene Khumbanyiwa.

There are many ways to exercise demons, especially when it has been an unfathomable monster such as the political system in South Africa which denied basic rights to the overwhelming majority in a country that has thankfully started to reap the seeds sown by Nelson Mandela.  It is how you represent those demons in a modern context that makes a film shine.