Alien Nation meets Outer Limits

Rating: 9/10 (15 August 2009)

Not entirely original, but sooo much better than the rest of the crap served up these days as science fiction, now dumbed down to 'Syfy'. For those of you who have seem the original Outer Limits TV show, the plot of District 9 may seem familiar. The 1964 episode starring Robert Duvall, The Chameleon (which may be viewed from a link on this website), features a very similar plot. Duvall's character is (voluntarily, in this case) surgically altered into an alien simulacrum to infiltrate an alleged invading group of aliens, but ends up 'going native'. The Alien Nation and Robocop influences are obvious and covered in detail elsewhere...
Forget the Transformers, GI Joe and all the other kiddie action flicks. Someone has finally once again made a film for adults that passes as science fiction to those of us who still read it in books.