At the surface, looks great...

Rating: 1/10 (5 September 2009)

This is the type of movie that makes you want to say that it's great, but when you try to identify why, you don't manage to find an answer.
The thing is, it's made to look like a great movie but it's not quite like that.
The only interesting thing in this movie is the idea of managing an alien population on earth, but I think that if an alien ship like that would come to earth, the events from that point on would not have anything in common with this movie. The difference in this movie is that the aliens don't come to kill us, and that they are a lot of them. The movie tries to manage this issue in an almost civilized manner. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it fails..
--Start of spoilers--
Why ? Here goes..: - they waited 3 months to get into the ship. that's highly unlikely.. in real life after few weeks it would probably have been open.

a module from the ship falls on the ground under the ship and it's videotaped, but they cannot seem to find it. i think in real life they would search the area inch by inch until they find it. the thing was buried 1 meter underground. by the way.. metal detector?

the aliens are allowed to leave their ship with their weapons, that later on they sell to buy cat food? no comment..

after 28 years of studying the alien technology, they could not figure out how it works.

poor management of the "reservation". no police. some helicopters. not much ground forces. no administration. come on, 1 million aliens come to your planet and you let them live in Africa eating tires and cat food ???

almost zero interaction with the aliens. if they can talk with the aliens you would think they would have found out everything about them in 28 years, but noo..

they say that there are many secrets in district 9, but they didn't uncover any of them. the aliens look so primal that I can't imagine what secrets they could hold.

just two aliens wanted to refuel the ship and go home?

it's a huge operation but they only send 4 cars to make the aliens sign the moving papers. yes, that's right, to sign. how can they sign? there is no talk of a legislation for the aliens. are they treated like humans?

--End of spoilers--
I could go on and on.. Seems like nothing would go like this in real life.
The aliens were OK, the technology was OK, the ship was OK, but the actions of the authorities and other people were nonsense.
Interesting idea, poor execution. This movie is really overrated.