Are you serious??

Rating: 3/10 (16 August 2009)

How is District 9 getting such critical acclaim? Out of all the big science fiction movies to come out in the last 10 years this has the biggest plot holes, yet no one seems to care...
Let me first start off by saying that I had very high hopes for this movie and was one of the most anticipated films of the year for me.
Yes, the CG is great, the action is intense, but the story falls flat.
Going into this movie you must suspend all disbelief. Apparently I was one of the few people who wasn't able to accept the fact that the human race would allow an alien civilization to be treated so poorly....
20 years on this earth they spent in a slum with humanity's only interest being in their weapons. I find it a little hard to believe that, the aliens would be so compliant on giving up their weapons only be to treated like animals. Throughout the film they definitely show aggression, so they aren't entirely peaceful. Yet they don't start any uprising with their advanced technology. Why? Your guess is as good as mine as we're giving no clear insight on any previous background into the past 20 years of their containment.
When i mentioned you must suspend all disbelief I truly meant it. Here you have these incredibly intelligent aliens forming gangs... having sex with human prostitutes, craving cat food, and otherwise acting anything like you might expect an alien race to behave.
On to the meat and bones of the story.... We don't know why they landed here, we just know they've been here for 20 years and came to earth barely alive. The part that kills me is that in that 20 years they were able to extract enough "fluid" from their technology to fly a command vessel (which previously detached for no apparent reason) back into the Mother ship. Meanwhile the fuel that was extracted was apparently also enough to power the entire Mother ship up and then fly away. How the hell? Furthermore, if they were able to extract fuel from their own parts why didn't they do that in the first place before landing on earth? If all that was required was a small canister of black fluid, why wasn't this done prior to landing on this planet, when they could have just flown home.
None of the story makes any sense whatsoever. We're never told why they landed here, why they couldn't just fly home, why they never chose to fight back our oppression. The entire story was horrible. Which is a shame because this film had so much potential...