I wasn't expecting this...

Rating: 9/10 (4 October 2009)

Well Im a big fan of sci-fi so I had high hopes for this one...but I deliberately didn't read much about it and didn't see any previews or look it up on the net (learnt the hard way there in the past).
One word sums it up...wow! The start of the film shook me a bit because I was thinking...oh no not another Cloverfield clone (and I liked Cloverfield don't get me wrong). The Peter Jackson and Halo the game influences are there for all to see - the prawns bear a striking resemblance to the Arbiter and there are little nods to Bad Taste there if you look. I really wasn't expecting the CGI to be so good, I had trouble accepting that there couldn't be humans in the Prawn suits! (yes the CGI was that good). There's a big nod to Robocop near the end too which all Robocop fans will appreciate ha ha! This is a must-buy for me on Blu-ray at the end of the year - when it will look even better than my local (very old) cinema. I can only imagine how good the Halo film might have been - you can tell that hes adapted parts of Halo to this. Its a bit of a shame Halo never got made but District 9 more than makes up for it!
Best film this year. Best sci-fi film for a long old while. Go and see it!