Entertainment and Action

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2009)

If you like interesting ideas wrapped up in a fast, clever & quick flick, if you like action, it's here. If you like gore & gushing geysers of gook, they are all here. District 9 is great, and will definitely become a classic sci-fi movie.
Other reviewers covered the comparisons to Blade Runner - I'd agree, but would give BL more points. But this is more FUN. Other reviewers went into the intellectual part of this - but this is more FUN.
It's well-crafted, fast, has great editing, decent character development, and most of all, we viewers find ourselves shifting our POVs and allegiances naturally - the other becomes us. A well done trick, adroit and effortless.
There's other stuff, like how easy it is for the powers that be to devise an interpretation of events/people that has nothing to do with reality, but which yet becomes the dominant reality. This is not labored over in the film, just a comment I'm making by the wayside, the one that's littered with prawns.
The CGI is phenomenal, the acting is good, the pseudo-documentary feel tells us there is someone in the future looking back at this time, who still doesn't know all of the aftermath. Sequel?