Like a pretty good episode of Twilight Zone with explosions

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 2015)

This director is very much the descendant of Rod Serling. He takes people and dumps them in a wild situation and has them continue to act more or less normally. Some people knock on this movie that the characters are under stated, but people are understated, and this makes the movie better, especially in how little chemistry there is between the main characters which may be a spoiler.
Like Serling, he always works in some maudlin content, but in this one it is so tied in to current events that it isn't as saccharine as the pathos in District 9 or Chappie. I did think the criticism that no society would get like this was pretty funny, considering how far down this road we already are. Unlike Chappie, the plot line is so simple that it doesn't bite off more than it can chew. The humor is humorous, the story line relevant and the explosions are beautiful. We watched this because we liked Chappie and District 9 so much, but I think this is actually the best of the three.