Wow!

Rating: 8/10 (4 January 2010)

Just saw it on DVD. Wow, outstanding low budget flick! Good story reinforced with top notch effects. I could do with less "documentary" style movie making, however this movie starts as documentary and moves to cinematic. Aliens and weapon effect animations are outstanding.
The story is about aliens who arrive on earth, their space ship ends up hovering over Johannesburg, South Africa. After 20 years, as second class citizens and because the "prawns" don't do well mixing with humans, they are relegated to a slum. The government decides to move all of them farther out of town to a new camp. This is when the hero of the story is exposed to an unknown substance that has a profound effect on his life and in the process reveals an alien plot. I think I'm going to watch it a second time! ;)
Be warned: every other word starts with "f" and graphic violence as in dismemberment and people being splattered by alien weapons.
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Some have complained about holes in the plot. If you are picky, those critiques could be valid. They did not bother me. Such as why did they come to Earth? An answer is not really required. They like cat food? Alien quirk. They are all morons? No they are not as the plot proves. Some of it can be attributed to inter-species differences and incompatibilities. Why would an unknown substance act as fuel and alter DNA? Their Alien tech merges technology with biology.