Neil Bloomkamp is becoming one of my more favorite directors. District 9 was awesome. Elysium was great. I had high expectations for this movie and tried to not get too excited out of fear of it ruining the movie for me. But it still delivered. The story was great and managed put a lot of heart into an action/sci-fi movie and there were a ton of laughs. One could break it down and say this was an updated version of Short Circuit and that is somewhat accurate, but this is nowhere near as kid friendly.
I would definitely recommend people checking this out. It's a fun ride and a well developed story. Only complaint is the level of weirdness with everyone's hair. What is that all about?