Yayyyyy Aliens!

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2009)

At first the shaky camera thing seemed dismaying. Gigantic alien ship hovering over Africa for months then we humans forcing our way in to find 1000's of "worker" bee aliens. OK, so the leaders had died is the explanation. So we build a slum tenement for them then treat them like bugs and call them Prawns because they look like humanoid shrimp. Your heart goes out immediately for them. Even the "nice" guy that interfaces with them for the eviction is a prick, at least until he understand their predicament from experience. The intelligent alien and his son are VERY endearing and capture much more sorrow from me than any human in the movie. Heck, the aliens even have greedy pawn brokers preying on them. One sad scene is when the military industrial complex is testing one of their weapons on a Prawn and the poor thing is looking around with fear. Pretty funny that the Prawn love eating cat food. Effects in this are stunning, action is compelling, though this is a rooster film and the chicks will enjoy it less. Pretty violent and gooey. It really captures and holds on to your interest. Particularly tantalizing is when you realize (from visuals) that these "dumb" alien bugs are actually far advanced over humans in their technology. This will obviously have a sequel. Can't wait.