If you watch one film before Christmas - make it this one!

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2009)

I read the views which were all pretty good, but that didn't prepare me for what really was an 'excellent' film. It's a very political film. It is set in Jo'burg, South Africa and draws on apartheid and its form of 'separate development' with its black townships et al. Neill Blomkamp, the director, made a short (6 minutes), called 'Alive in Joburg' (2005) which I have yet to see, but I have a feeling that this film may be a sequel or at least on the same theme as that one, as it concerns an alien spaceship appearing over Jo'burg and the racist reception the aliens are given. In 'District 9' the storyline is good, the opening and closing docu-drama direction style is very effective, special effects are amazing, the acting is top drawer. See this film!