Wasted opportunity

Rating: 1/10 (18 August 2009)

Don't bother with this one.
It is trite and formulaic. It was shot via handy cam, and looks like it was edited on handy cams. Shot in a type of first person, home movie style, with occasional security cameras thrown in for  effect? ... (I hesitate because the "effect" was lost on me.)
The story had potential,but it fails to deliver the goods. It substitutes cheap special effects, gratuitous violence and gore in place of intelligent writing. It substitutes faux home movie/cheap documentary "styling" for actual cinematography.
And it fails to wrap up the story, leaving no doubt that there will be a "District 10", even if it were to go direct to home video (which it won't, but it should no it should be scrapped and District 9 should be recalled and placed in the hands of capable writers and directors, in a perfect world!).
The dialog consists mostly of an expletive repeated ad infinitum. Perhaps the writers are shooting for the record on the number of times the f-bomb has been dropped in a movie? There was a man snoring in the theater. He at least got a good nap out of this stinker, which is more than anyone else got.