not bad

Rating: 6/10 (16 August 2009)

firstly this movie does not deserve it 9+ marks out of 10. It started off bad. it was boring, I was cringing through the whole first 35 mins. he parallels to racial apartheid aren't exactly subtle, the acting was bad too, esp the lead actor. it uses this faux documentary style that is so cliché. It was just disappointing, shame really. wait to see it on cable or DVD.
It's mainly a compost of other sci-fi movies, as old as "RoboCop," "Aliens" and "The Fly" and as recent as "Cloverfield" and "Transformers." It's a bad joke that "District 9" will be hailed for its "originality." The movie's main fun comes from wondering what coin of the pop realm Blomkamp will pluck out from his memory bank next.