Chappie (2015)

Most people think so. 77% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 36%, but audiences disagreed.

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot. Wikipedia ↗

Chappie is a 2015 South African-American science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp. In a near-future Johannesburg where robot police officers maintain law and order, engineer Deon Wilson, played by Dev Patel, creates true artificial consciousness and installs it in a damaged robot that is adopted by a gang of criminals who name him Chappie. As Chappie learns about the world with childlike innocence while being taught both compassion by Deon and criminal behavior by the gang, a rival weapons designer played by Hugh Jackman seeks to destroy all scout robots to promote his own military mech.

Neill Blomkamp continued exploring his recurring themes of artificial intelligence, South African social inequality, and the military-industrial complex. Die Antwoord members Ninja and Yolandi Visser played fictionalized versions of themselves as Chappie's criminal adoptive parents. The film earned $102 million worldwide on a $49 million budget.