Electrifying, Powerful and Original

Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2019)

This will always be one of my favourite Science Fiction movies of all time, With such and incredible concept and brilliant story, this movie will have you hooked from start to finish. Starting out shot like a documentary, we follow the character of Wikus who is a groundkeeper of the Slums of District 9. Tension builds when he is exposed to an alien chemical which begins to slowly alter his DNA and transform him into an alien. Things get really scary really quickly for Wikus as he is captured by the MNU and is begun to be experimented upon, he escapes and returns to District 9 in hiding from the MNU. He begins to fit in with the alien creatures and feel for and understand them in ways he didn't before.
This is an incredibly tense and realistically shot movie with some very harrowing sequences as well as some slick alien weapons that Wikus gets to try out in the end of the movie. The score is great aswell which really makes you feel the state of the ordeal that Wikus goes through in the film. It's just an incredible piece of Science Fiction and is one of the best of the noughties