The concept of this movie could have been so much better.

Rating: 1/10 (19 August 2009)

The concept of this movie could have been so much better.
The fact that the aliens had all those weapons but didn't use them to gain food or better living conditions makes no sense. It says in the movie that they have no concept of property ownership. The writers should have made it so all the weapons were confiscated from the mother ship which would make more sense as to why the aliens would be subjected to a shanty town and such abuse.
Second the movie would have been much more interesting if the topic of integrating the aliens into society vs. moving them to district 10 has been addressed more prevalently. They showed protesters with signs saying 'I love PRawns' etc which would have been a good opening to expand on this topic. I could see a parallel that could be drawn with that to the apartheid government of South Africa which would make the setting of Johannesburg more prevalent.
What about the competition between governments for control of the alien technology.. China, NATO, Iran ..etc ??? couldn't the aliens negotiate for more then cat food? or are we to believe there South Africa is the only one to be in control or that there was a combined effort by all humanity represented by the MNU except for a small Nigerian gang to manipulate and try to gain an upper hand in acquiring alien technology.
Flaws...
There is no way any government would have not had an impossible amount of security at a HQ dealing with the kind of experiments they were doing. Simply running out of the building by taking a person hostage would not have been possible. IF we are led to believe that the MNU top officials are ruthless enough to kill Vikas to harvest his body certainly they would kill a hostage or anyone else for that matter to stop him from leaving. If he had escaped it should have been through a more ingenious way like stealing alien weapons to blast his way out and using his knowledge of the building. Once out of the building couldn't they track his frequent cell phone calls? Containing the aliens would have been more logical if there was a major multinational military presence outside district 9 with more then a small fence severing as a border fence. We should have seen tons of tanks and military hardware not just a small group of mercenaries and helicopters. Where was the UN or the United States? The mother-ship would be the real technology that people should have been interested in. Come on it's fcking huge!.. it can travel outside of our solar system.. possessed some kind of anti gravity technology.. etc etc. Were there MNU agents in the ship working to obtain the technology it possessed. I can't imagine that it would be just sitting there for 20+ years empty so that when the aliens flew up to the ship that they could just leave and no people would be on it. I mean they made a big deal of finding alien technology in the camp but look how much was floating over the city.
I could go on but i guess when the alien comes back we will have a new movie DIstrict 10 in a year or so.