A metaphor of our society that represents the immorality of humans.

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 2009)

This movie is a metaphor of our society that represents the immorality of humans with their prejudice, racism, concentration camps & inhumane experiments. Since the film has no stars, it's based entirely in South Africa, it contains a huge amount of graphic violence and it's shot in a documentary style; I find only a very selective audience will actually enjoy this movie.
The visual effects were mind-boggling with its seamless interactions between the aliens & humans. The movie has some similarities to the 1986's film "The Fly" and your generic plot line of that specific lone humanistic alien that the audiences are rooting for. His son adds the sympathetic role so that we can easily relate to them.
This film has parts that are unique & brilliant, but within a metaphorical story that we're all too familiar with; which at sometimes, runs as being unoriginal. The 2nd half of the movie is flooded with action sequences, where the visuals are very similar to watching a live-action video game; that at times, becomes a little too disoriented and messy.
Even though I enjoyed this film and I was in awe in specific scenes, I don't find myself eager to be watching this movie again on home video. "District 9" is one of those films that has forms of being an artistic masterpiece, but it falls a little short and it can be very disturbing for some people.