Awful is insufficient to describe District 9

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2009)

CONTAINS SPOILERS District 9 has been such a waste of time that I am going to attempt to express the severe let down that District 9. I had heard that District 9 was to be what the Matrix was in 2000. Let me be the first to tell you that this movie does not so much as scratch the big toe of the Matrix (and I doubt any modern-day sci-fi movie ever will). Wikus, or whatever his name is, is portrayed as a weak, frail man who runs away at problems and cries at calamity. Wikus could use some severe training sessions with Indiana Jones.
The dialogue in this movie is a joke. The characters are all personalities I have experienced in other movies at greater calibers which produced greater results. Such as that soldier guy who is killed last. If he does not remind you of Arnold Scharzenegger in Predator or Terminator, than I don't know.
Wikus's wife betrayed him, but we never learn how, why, or if that was purposefully done. As I read in a review before mine, how can an alien race fly millions of miles through the galaxy topping warp speeds to even reach Earth and then "run out of gas"? Like you would think they would have highly sensitive metal plated boards that suck up gamma rays or something of the sort from the sun.
All in all, this movie is torture, a waste of time, and should be avoided. While watching this movie, I was hoping something meaningful and intuitive or catchy would happen and I was left in dire disappointment. Considering watching something entertaining? Then please continue searching, this is NOT the movie for entertainment loving persons.
EDIT: rewatched this movie as a 29 year old guy. The writing isn't as bad as I said when I was younger and wrote the above review. However, the quite white supremacy that I now see in this movie as opposed to when I was a kid is overplayed and tiresome. That idea has gotten old and better stories need to be told. Would not recommend.