Sci Fi is dead.

Rating: 2/10 (12 September 2009)

The only interesting bit of the film was the fact that it took place after 'first contact' and 20 years on.
The characters weren't appealing, I didn't care what happened to any of them. I don't like talking heads and documentary style scenes in films either. News reports too.
24 hours eviction notice, over 1 million signatures. wtf?
The language the aliens used was supposed to be understandable by humans yet sounded completely inaudible to me, I tried to listen out for familiar 'words' or sounds when they did speak but couldn't catch a thing.
Other things I couldn't get my head around....selling a suit of armor for 100 tins of cat food, when you could, well, have just put on the armor and over powered the humans and nicked it. The 'prawns' being able to kick and kill a human to death in the blink of an eye but are completely over powered by 20 Nigerian outlaws with a few guns.
Far too many questionable gaps in the plot for me, i didn't care about what happened and couldn't wait for it to finish.
Overall, if you take films seriously, over the age of 25 and want real quality when you pay to go watch a movie...don't watch district 9.
I'm sure it will do well with kids though.