<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Chappie-FilmMar15.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2500 size-thumbnail" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Chappie-FilmMar15-200x122.jpg" alt="Chappie-Film(Mar15)" width="200" height="122" /></a>On Thursday after attending the U3A meeting where I gathered together my new Social Media group for a briefing we travelled down to London to see Jane's mum. The visit was good because for the first time in many months she was out of bed and sitting in the TV room. All of the activity around her had obviously worn her out and so she was quite tired and a little incoherent. We stayed for an hour and after checking into the Days Inn Hotel at South Mimms we headed to the Odeon in Barnet to see Chappie (there's nothing else to do in Barnet).

And so onto the film. I love robot films having been a keen reader of all the Asimov robot books in my youth (yes I did eventually learn to read) and of course the <a title="3 Laws of Robotics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics" target="_blank">3, and then 4 laws of robotics</a>. Chappie was a robot that was transformed from a police robot that took orders into a sentient robot which had to learn everything including a moral code. Obviously the developer had never read Asimov because giving a robot the ability to decide on whether it would harm humans is crazy. If you think artificial intelligence is evil and robots are a bad thing then this film support your point of view but I don't subscribe to this narrow thinking.

The film rolls along with plenty of plot holes but generally entertaining if a little too violent in places. The robot was excellent but the story line was thin and could have been developed into something that had greater meaning so it was a disappointing. If you haven't seen it then wait for it to arrive on your TV in a few years time.