Average summer sci-fi action movie.

Rating: 1/10 (3 September 2009)

I wanted to like this movie a lot. So I relaxed and paid close attention. As the story went further, I realized that I didn't care much for what was happening. I did want to see the end, and it was easy to get there because the film is a pleasant watch.
Part of the reason the film gets you to stay with it the whole way through has to be that there is seemingly a lot of mystery about it all. But when it was all over all I was left with was questions--and not in the good 'life changing' way. I was never immersed into the movie and never given a real reason to care about what was going on. I have to say that the story ended up being rather like Swiss cheese.
District 9 ends up being a giant hole that you could walk through to the other side. Then at the other side is an empty room. You yell 'Hey, where's the story?!' No one answers. 20-minute action sequence, roll credits. Masterpiece?