“There is nothing more human than the will to survive.”

The writer of 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd makes his directing debut with this Science fiction thriller Ex_Machina (pronounced mack-in-ah).

When young Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a 24 Year Old computer coder working for internet giant Blue Book wins a competition to spend a week with the company CEO Nathan (Oscar Isaac) at his mountain retreat. Upon arriving, Caleb joins Nathan in a world changing experiment.

I’ll start out by saying that this film is not an action film. If you were expecting something in the ilk of Terminator or I.Robot, you may be slightly disappointed. If anything, this film has a more psychological thriller feel to it. So, I can imagine this film may not be for everyone and that’s fine. But if you like a film that questions the very idea of the human psyche and becomes deeply…