District 9 Falls Apart at the End

Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2010)

Like all good science fiction District 9 gleans real-world implications from the allegory on screen. If the conflict captured verite between aliens and humans seems reminiscent of the apartheid director Neill Blomkamp witnessed as a child it is no small coincidence.
District 9 is unusual, in its approach of siding with the aliens. Sure E.T. was also pro-alien, but not to the extent that you actively rooted for the destruction of man.
Sharlto Copley plays Wikus van der Merwe, who contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Fighting for his life, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Very quickly we discover that in the quest for gaining unimaginable sources of wealth from selling the "prawns" technology that we have become less human than the beings we are trying to exterminate. It's too bad that Blomkamp didn't continue along the lines of this and instead ventured into Bay territory with Pig shooting robots.