ridiculous

Rating: 3/10 (27 March 2020)

Everyone just ranted and raved over what a great movie this was! What I saw, from my perspective, is a film just under two hours, that could have easily have been wrapped up in 1 hour tops. An hour movie! That's all this needed to be. Who's going to go to the theater and watch an hour long movie back in 2009? So let's just add an hour of filler, thirty minutes of commentary in the beginning, and we'll stretch out the other half hour into long drawn out action sequences towards the end. I am just in utter shock that people don't want to say how they really feel. This is not a 10 star movie like some reviewers want you to think. It's not even a 9 or 8 star movie. If you really wanted my opinion, its barely even a movie from my way of looking at things. It sure doesn't behave like one. A movie has likable characters, at least a few here and there. The story is so paper thin, that if I told you what it was about, I would pretty much be telling you the whole damned movie. A spaceship gets stranded over South Africa, and the aliens that were in it are now on earth. Quarantined off in a section called District 9, they are free to live and have the same human rights as us. Even though they aren't human. Fast forward an approximate 20 years. Times have changed, and now the aliens are no longer welcome, and the military wants to take District 9 back. These aliens are actually pretty peaceful. That is, until you piss them off, and then they are quite ruthless. One of the guys can actually speak and understand the alien language, you know, because there's nothing you can't pull past an audience these days. If they're stupid enough to give this a 10 star review, then they'll be dumb enough to believe a man can speak the extraterrestrial tongue. In the meantime, his hand is developing like an aliens, because if he can speak the language, he may as well be just like them right? He's told it can take up to three years to develop a human hand back. Too bad a story cant be developed here. The action doesn't really start picking up until the last half hour, and by that time, its too late to reprise my respect or like for you POS film. District 9 is a bust, and I think people just don't want to admit it, so they praise it. That's all here. If you like science fiction movies, the best ones were made in the 50's. I can't recommend District 9.