Total Disappointment carried on the back of a slug

Rating: 2/10 (28 August 2009)

From the previews, I expected District 9 to be a dark, suspenseful movie that would shock and frighten me. I was wholly disappointed.
From the beginning I did not find any of the movie believable, from the way the aliens acted (For instance, in one of the scenes with the gangs: how could an alien be so foolish to stop by for a second to have their head blown off, and worse yet, why didn't any of his companions stop and try to gain some measure of vengeance?) to the pseudo-government/paramilitary organization (which didn't have any intervention from other nations, as far as I could tell), I couldn't find this movie believable despite the decent SFX and camera work.
This might be forgivable if the movie had picked up the pace. Yet, for a movie that spans less than a week (in movie time), it seemed three times as long as that and it crawled at a slug's pace, and it was just as boring (not that I want to put down slugs), most of the time.
Finally, the end of the movie is far too anti-climatic to be satisfying and screams that there will be a sequel in tow, but I can't bother to care the least bit. If the story takes more than a movie's length to gain momentum, then I'm rather sure the sequel won't be worth watching.