Mediocre

Rating: 6/10 (4 March 2010)

Well another film that had much advertisement and just did not deliver. First off the acting was very good and so was the directing, but other than that not much that can be recognizable. When I began to see commercials for this I began to believe it would be a sort of sci-fi documentary, but my was I wrong. One of the biggest issues that I had with this film is that it only surrounds around one character. I believe that they could have centralized the film on ethnic issues or political issues. I believe they could have expanded on the problems that the communities around district 9 were having. At the beginning it seemed like that was going to be the main topic with this film unfortunately it was taken in a whole different direction. So much is going on surrounding the events of district 9 yet they only demonstrate the effects of one character in the whole film. The film becomes very cliché towards the end, they added slow motion to shooting scenes and just ruined the tempo they had created for this film, and of course they had that last heroic event which saved the day. Up until the end they had done a nice job, they hadn't brought any real villains in the film most of the reactions the characters had in the film were just basic survival instincts which made the film a bit more realistic. The characters emotions and attitude did not ad up with his actions, one minute he's destroying the alien race, the next he's saving it just did not make sense. The film is enjoyable but not great I believe the story crumbled towards the end and just did not deliver.