Needs to be seen at least twice....

Rating: 7/10 (16 August 2009)

As a previous reviewer commented, the first half of the movie is quite rushed and disjointed, leaving the viewer to make presumptions about the current action based on an insufficient amount of setup.
If the intent of the director was to give the impression that this was unedited, breaking-news tape, then he should at least have given the viewer some assistance in making sense of what was happening so spontaneously and explosively in the eyepiece of the camera.
He should also have spent more time developing the leading character.
The troops who tried to get aliens' signatures on those eviction orders were less than believable, and almost Pythonesque; are we supposed to believe 3 armed troops and one bureaucrat would march up to each and every shanty (that wasn't burning) and politely knock on the door for a signature while the whole encampment was breaking out in gunfire all around them? The second half of the movie moved more smoothly, although the sometimes unintelligible dialog was comprised mostly of the word "foock!" But at least the plot and characters developed at a more comprehensible rate. Unfortunately, by that time, two-thirds of the audience were so tired from input overload, they were totally lost 75 minutes into the film.