From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller that “soars on the imagination of its creators” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed. . . only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.
A provocative science fiction drama, District 9 boasts an original story that gets a little lost in blow-’em-up mayhem. Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, District 9 begins as a mock documentary about the imminent eviction of extraterrestrials from a pathetic shantytown (called District 9). The creatures, it turns out, have been on Earth for years, having arrived sickly and starving. Initially received by humans with compassion and care, the aliens are now mired in blighted conditions typical of long-term refugee camps unwanted by a hostile, host society. With the creatures’ care contracted out to a for-profit corporation, the shantytown has become a violent slum.
The aliens sift through massive piles of junk while their minders secretly research weapons technology that arrived on the visitors’ spacecraft. Against this backdrop is a more personal story about a bureaucrat named Wikus (Sharlto Copley) who is accidentally exposed to a DNA-altering substance. As he begins metamorphosing into one of the creatures, Wikus goes on the run from scientists who want to harvest his evolving, new parts and aliens who see him as a threat. When he pairs up with an extraterrestrial secretly planning an escape from Earth, however, what should be a fascinating relationship story becomes a series of firefights and explosions. Nuance is lost to numbing violence, and the more interesting potential of the film is obscured. Yet, for a while District 9 is a powerful movie with a unique tale to tell. Seamless special effects alone are worth seeing: the (often brutal) exchanges between alien and human are breathtaking. –Tom Keogh District 9 downloadables (Click for pdf file)
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this is the worst movie i have ever seen, the special effects are cheap, and the story is stupid. i threw the cd out the window.
Rating: 1 / 5
This movie should be at least in the top 5 worst movies of all time if not the worst. Awful, horrendous, boring, stupid or ridiculous could all be used to describe this movie. The point where you think, it has to get better, trust me it never does. I didn’t know garbage gets rated 5 stars and I didnt want to give this 1 star. It was a painful struggle to finish this movie, 0 enjoyment. I will NEVER watch this pathetic movie again. The people that rated this movie 5 stars must have seen a different movie. As bad of a movie as Torque or Alone in the Dark were, they are drastically ahead of this one.
Rating: 1 / 5
i dont see how anyone can like this.
15 min of this and i turned it off.
and when i say its bad its bad.
its not easy to get just 1 star from me. O. o
if you dont trust me rent it first please!
Rating: 1 / 5
This movie is nothing more than a really bad remake of Alien Nation. Do yourself a favor, miss out on District 9.
Rating: 1 / 5
They had the potential to make a pretty good movie here and completely blew it. If they had spent even a tenth of the time trying to make it good as they spent trying to make it gross it might have been an OK movie. Had I not been with other people at the theater when I saw it I would have simply gotten up and left – something I’ve done only one time in my life.
Rating: 1 / 5