Slovenian ' film – makers ', learn from this ( fat chance ! )

Rating: 7/10 (18 September 2009)

A South-African Sci-Fi with photo realistic effects made by perhaps the second best effect company – Weta f/x , a film that was a financial and visual surprise of the year , a film that has infused the genre with new stylistic approach ( i.e. –just watch the first thirty minutes made as a sort of documentary ( in sci-fi genre , no less ! ) , where the whole story with the arrival of a gigantic space ship with more than a million creatures ,who look like a hybrid between a cockroach and a shrimp ,emaciated and having been eating on each other in order to survive, is explained ,as the huge human clean-up operation to relocate the very same 'shrimps' away from the encircled area near Jo-burg ( and that's another beauty of the film , namely ,forget about aliens razing downtown Washington , New York or , in a few cases Paris , it's the South Africa's turn now !) , is about to commence ,as the residents have soon become fed up , sorry , hostile towards the new arrivals , who have not done anything wrong , except that they look 'ugly ', i.e. too non –human , and are eating all the time ,and ,presto facto, the bustling trade with the Nigerian gang members selling ,mind this , the aliens' favorite food – cat meat, and , another original creations , namely an interspecies prostitution is also taken care of and in full swing !! But as is to be expected , the whole day bureaucratic stroll turns out a bit differently ,and the whole truth about the alien race and human desire to relocate - decimate – incarcerate – get hold of their weapons is slowly revealed with the surprising twist at the end !A psycho-social study of humans , racial tensions , lies ,greed ,domination ,unsolved historical black spots still painfully lurking in the background ( concentration camps – aliens'holding ground if you prefer - were first built in South Africa ), exploitation smack in your face ! A debut of highest quality for Mr. N. Blomkamp !