Explosive, creative, and entertaining alien film.

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2010)

Very creative alien film that isn't another hand-me-down from the original alien invasion story. Creative story, awesome action, great characters, and an all together fun ride.
Shot as a documentary, the film at first explains how 20 years ago from 2002 an alien aircraft came out of nowhere and hovered over the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, where the military found aliens on board, more specifically named "prawn". It eventually leads to them creating a slum like location for them to stay on Earth called District 9. It then introduces the main character named Wikus Van De Merwe, who works for MNU to lead the aliens out of D9 and into a different location. During which, he becomes infected by a fluid that starts to turns him into a prawn. Eventually, he is pursued by MNU to obtain his organs to allow them to use the prawn weaponry that can only be used by prawn. He makes friends with a fellow prawn whose goal with the fluid over a period of 20 years was to use it to program a secret underground ship and use it to escape, which could also turn Wikus back into a human. They then team up to obtain the fluid.
As the story progresses, you feel more for the main character, and eventually, you even feel for the prawn, which is pretty impressive. Visuals are stunning as can be, with both the prawn, the explosions, and the ship. All put together is simply breathtaking. Though the action gets a tiny bit uncreative, there are definitely some very clever action moments, which just makes you get goosebumps.
Even though it would have been nice for Peter Jackson to do the Halo movie instead of this, this still turned out pretty decent.
Though I have to say, seeing it the first time is the best time. If you try to see it again, it may not be as good, but still, thats just for me. I saw it a bunch of other times, and it just wasn't as good. But for the movie in general, its a well balanced action film that knows what its doing.