Great ACTION sci-fi movie, yet boring and not-so thickening plot progression.

Rating: 7/10 (17 August 2009)

The movie was.. good in its illustration of outer-worldly humanoids that, instead of taking over the future earth and blasting Mount Rushmore with the mothership, for whatever reason just hovered above the damn thing for a good long time until well the humans found that they were their refugees. Now, it had everything transcending average movie elements other than a plot that wasn't so﻿ predictable. Annoying foreign man mistreats aliens like all other overly aggressive humans in the movie, suddenly discovers some alien green goo that changes his genes, hah, and then he saves the aliens by fighting the big bad humans! Instead of dying a horrible death that he should.
Is it an accurate representation of how humans would treat their outer-worldly friends? Probably not. We certainly wouldn't bring them from their ship to earth and wonder at what to do about them after tossing them in some landfill in south Africa. Also, why is the almighty omnipresent media able to enter dangerous combat zones in District 9 everywhere the scenes turn; mercenaries mindlessly shooting our smarter humanoid counterparts every waking moment does not seem strangely unproductive to the future world? Little smidges like that build up and leave me quite bored and unenthralled towards the end of the movie.
I suppose the movie is exceptional to the average unsuspecting populace who overrates dazzling action, sci-fi movies such as this.