In an effort to reduce the notoriously high crime rate in Johannesburg, the South African government purchase a new, cutting-edge series...
In an effort to reduce the notoriously high crime rate in Johannesburg, the South African government purchase a new, cutting-edge series of armour-plated, semi-A.I. operated attack robots from weapons manufacturer Tetravaal. They prove to be an instant success. At the company's Johannesburg plant, the robot's designer, Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) , attracts the ire of Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman), an Australian engineer whose own design, MOOSE, is derided. Deon has just created a new Artificial Intelligence software that mimics human intelligence to the point of being able to feel emotions and have opinions. However, he is refused permission to test it on one of the robots by his boss, Michelle Bradley (Sigourney Weaver). Undeterred, he steals a recently damaged robot before it is destroyed and loads it into his van, along with the necessary driver to update the robot's software. On his way home, however, he is kidnapped by a group of gangsters, consisting of Ninja(Watkin Tudor Jones), Yolandi(Yolandi Visser), and Yankie (Amerika)(Jose Pablo Cantillo), who wants to force him to reprogram one of his robots to assist them in a heist in order to pay off their debt. At gunpoint, he installs his new software into the damaged robot, which responds with child-like terror upon powering up. Deon and Yolandi coax it out, and it soon begins to speak, identifying Deon as its "maker" and Yolandi as its "mommy". Yolandi, in turn, names it "CHAPPiE" (after the Commonwealth colloquialism "Happy Chappie"). Despite his desire to stay with the robot, Deon is forced to leave by Ninja.
Although Yolandi wants to mother Chappie, Ninja becomes impatient with Chappie's progress – since he only has days to pay a debt of 20 million rand to Hippo [Bradnon Auret], a powerful gangster, and Chappie's damaged battery means that he only has days of life left – and drops him off in a dangerous neighbourhood to force him to toughen up. However, Chappie is seized by Vincent, who had followed Deon on one of his visits, and realised where the update driver is. Vincent removes Chappie's arm to prevent him from fighting back, but an agitated Chappie manages to overpower him and escapes. Upon his return, Yankie attaches a new arm from Deon's supplies, while Yolandi and Ninja fall out. Ninja trains Chappie in martial arts and weapons' handling, and soon manages to persuade him to turn to crime, first by insisting that he is defending his "mommy and daddy" and then that he needs money to buy a new body – to replace the one that is about to die.
With the driver in hand, Vincent installs a new software into all the attack robots, causing a city-wide shutdown – including Chappie – and provoking chaos in the Johannesburg slums. His attempt to delete the software is stopped by Deon, who has brought Chappie to the factory to restart him. While there, Chappie discovers a helmet which allows him to transfer his consciousness into a computer, which will allow him to change bodies when his current one dies. He returns to the gang's hideout, and, after showing the machine to Yolandi, agrees to participate in the heist. The heist - which is caught on the news - goes off without a hitch, but on the drive home, Ninja confesses there is no body to replace Chappie and he had been lying. Enraged, Chappie attacks him and, when they arrive home, prepares to kill him. At that moment, Vincent's MOOSE robot arrives and attacks, as does Deon and Hippo, the gangster to whom Ninja owes money. Yankie is then killed by MOOSE, and Deon is wounded by a bullet to the stomach. In the midst of the battle, Hippo is killed by Ninja. Wanting to make up for what he's done, Ninja offers to distract MOOSE while Chappie and Yolandi take Deon to the factory to transfer his consciousness to a robot. As Chappie is driving off, Yolandi leaps out of the vehicle, grabs Chappie's gun and shoots MOOSE before it can kill Ninja. The robot turns it's gatling gun on her and fires, killing Yolandi. Chappie leaps in front of her and detonates a bomb he'd jammed in MOOSE's side, destroying the robot.
Filled with rage, Chappie drives Deon to the Tetravaal factory, storms in and attacks Vincent. The fight ends in the main office, where Chappie leaves Vincent on the verge of death, telling him "now I forgive you." He returns to Deon, attaches him to Vincent's machine and transfers his consciousness into a prototype robot. Realising that there are many deactivated robots in the vicinity, the now robotic Deon transfers Chappie's consciousness into one just outside the facility, and escapes through an air duct. The two reunite outside, and make their way back to the hideout. There, as Ninja is burning Yolandi's personal effects, he finds a flash drive marked "Mommy's Consciousness" – revealing that Chappie had used the device on Yolandi earlier, and now has her consciousness available for transfer. They hack into Tetravaal's computer, design a female robotic body and transfer Yolandi's consciousness into it, resurrecting her in robot form.
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