District 9: total disappointment!

Rating: 2/10 (27 August 2009)

All these weeks, viral videos made me eager to watch District 9. It seemed so interesting and different but after watching the whole movie my comments are just these: another boring flat film with HUGE plot holes and no point at all. It just SUCKS! The best feature is the CG aliens' video tracking and composing with the other elements in the film. I must admit the special effects department did a magnificent job. However, this doesn't save the movie at all.
The first part of the movie does seem interesting and it's a nice touch to see the main character being affected by the "liquid". After that, the whole movie turns into a ridiculous Resident evil 5 video game with awful camera shaking (I think it's time to stop this 2000's camera trend anymore), constant bombings and silly plot.
There's no logic in the plot: advanced aliens with fantastic weapons abused by humans? And they manage to get a can with black liquid after twenty years, which is powerful enough to activate a spaceship but turns humans to aliens? What about the huge mother ship? Just standing there? All these don't make sense and the overall approach is very shallow, I would expect more depth.
Another annoying fact was the character's ability to do anything he wants like being a "super-hero". He assaults military headquarters, gets away from any difficult situation easily, he even avoids bullets, rockets, missiles.There are so many clichés here that make the movie the worst anticipated movie - like Kevin Kostner's Water World.
This is not a sci-fi film, this is a video game with an awfully-fake documentary camera shake. It seems many modern films have a serious lack of solid plot and scenario.
A waste of time, no doubt.