This movie is not sci-fi

Rating: 1/10 (25 August 2009)

My vision of sci-fi is that it's something that's fun, enjoyable and suitable for everybody. I mean I fully understood it had an R-rating, but what's with all the excessive blood and gore? I think it safe to say that if the blood and gore were toned down to a zero, people would not be praising this movie like they are now. What happened to the concept that less is more? District 9 is definitely light on story, and even when it has story, it takes elements from earlier science fiction movies and television. Basically, District 9 sends the very negative and nihilistic message that humanity is greedy, hateful and spiteful and we'll never, ever improve as a species. Bravo District 9, wonderful message you've got there.
A heavy focus of this movie is on the Alien weaponry, and the military needs someone with alien DNA to come along to use it. Ah-ha, so here comes the convenient plot device of guy-getting-infected-by-alien-weapon-so-he-is-on-the-run-now. Huh? Wait a minute... how exactly does Alien fuel turn a guy into an alien from outer space???? That's one of the biggest and most significant plot holes in the movie, and it really, really needed to be addressed at some point, but it wasn't.
Finally, when you expect some exciting story point to finally happen near the end, there's more grisly blood, guts and gore. In focusing too heavily on the blood, guts and gore, the movie ends up being very predictable in the end. It's kind of like going from point A to point B to point C without taking any detours or finding a better path.
A lot of the Science fiction from the 1950's was much better than this because not only was it meant for everyone, but it was purely story-driven. This movie was merely a cruel, visceral exercise in exploding body parts and wrapping up 20 or 30 pre-used ideas from other movies and Star Trek episodes and calling it a new film. I mean for God's sakes, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was more Sci-fi than this movie!
Honestly, answer me. If this movie was PG, would you have enjoyed it as much? Catering to the basic instinct of violence as entertainment and pompously calling it a work of art shows how low we've sunk as a species.