Quite a story. Excellent

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2009)

Decades ago aliens came to Earth. The mother ship hovered over Johannesburg, South Africa, and an attack never came. The aliens became refugees and were sent to District 9. The aliens were docile but their living areas had become slums and they were becoming more aggressive, and the government needed to relocate them far away from the cities. By accident, Wikus (Copley) gets infected with alien DNA and the story starts.
When the government tries to relocate the aliens and needs them to sign eviction papers it's a sight to see. I can only liken it to trying to get hundreds of monkeys to understand English and what is happening and putting eviction papers in their faces for them to sign. Get the picture? Not a pretty sight.
The aliens are called Prawns because they look like shrimp with legs and they speak what sounds like insect utterances. Not sure how I know that. Both humans and aliens understand each other. The story didn't go into explaining how that came about unless I missed it. Actually, I really don't want to know.
This is quite a story and I didn't think there would be one considering how the movie opened with the eviction notices, and all the confusion. The CGI is some of the best I have ever seen.
The Alien leader of the mother ship never allowed himself to be identified. That would have been too easy and we wouldn't have a story. Why he never did that is not explained either.
But, the story focuses on Wikus and his troubles and the story is quite good. The acting by all is also very good, and again the CGI is just fantastic and not overdone.
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes.