Awesome, awesome, awesome.

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2013)

How great is District 9? Too good for words my friend, too good. So here's the basic idea; in 1982 a huge space ship appeared over Johannesburg, and from it came 'Prawns' an alien race. Now many years later the government wants to evict the Prawns and move them to District 10. From those few sentences, this film sounds pretty stupid right? Wrong. Well, things don't go as planned, and it's lots of fun to watch the Prawns angrily react. Along the way our main army guy accidentally inhales some alien liquid/gas which causes him to turn into a Prawn himself, along the way he meets a Prawn who he makes a deal with, (The liquid he got hit with is actually an alien gas necessary for the Prawns to power a ship so they can get back to the mother ship and get away from earth and back to their planet.) So they break into the base, cause a massive shoot out/slaughter and manage to retrieve the liquid. Now the army comes to forcefully move the Prawns and get the Half-Prawn guy back, because he is the only one who can get the Prawn's weapons to work. After an intense fight (and an awesome mech suit shoot out) the Prawns leave the guy who was changing but promise to return to change him back. The only problem is that it's going to take three years. As the film ends we get one last shot of the guy who was changing. Now a full Prawn.
The acting was good but the special effects are where this movie really shines! Weather it be the make-up on the Prawns, the explosions, the huge mech-suit that appears at the end. Of the gallons of gore that flies everywhere (even on the camera) it is all really good, the music and lighting are fine as well.
So when it comes right down to it, District 9 is an extremely well done movie. I can easily recommend to sci-fi fans, or fans of action movies or even people who just like lots of gore. District 9 is amazing and I hope they make a sequel (even though the chances are really, really, small of that happening.)