Big Let Down

Rating: 4/10 (25 August 2009)

Maybe I was a bit put off by all the hype, but I found myself very disappointed in D9. I enjoyed the effects, and parts of the movie, but overall found it a big let down. There are way too many plot holes for me to ignore SPOILERS such as the fact that these aliens didn't land in some super-power nation and still were so easily contained and controlled, especially with all their superior weaponry. How??? Wikus and that other Alien very easily broke into a heavily guarded facility with a few of those weapons, but that same heavily guarded facility was able to police over 1.5 million of these creatures all with access to the same weapons? And I have a hard time believing they were on earth for 20 years and other countries from around the world hadn't become actively involved with them. But more importantly, these aliens would clearly do anything for that cat food and were totally persuadable, and yet the humans who are only concerned with using the alien's weapons and nothing else, haven't over the course of the last 20 years figured out a way to get a group of these aliens to act as soldiers in their interest? How about offering them some...cat food. The whole thing with Wikus changing slowly into an alien off of alien fuel seemed pretty far-fetched...especially since he was sprayed in the face but began to transform at his arm...why? And truthfully, the acting in the earlier non-alien scenes was fairly bad and the whole relationship thing at the end felt totally thrown in. Overall, a real let down.