Intense

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2009)

This is an intense documentary style drama with comic touches, not standard sci-fi.
It does have many violent action sequences.
I enjoyed it very much.
The documentary style draws you in. You watch in bemusement as the incompetent bureaucrat perpetrates governmental nonsense against the alien refugees. This is how things like the FEMA response to Katrina started. Your feet itch.
Then it happens. Everything falls apart. Violence ensues.
The documentary style is mixed in with gritty narrative as we are treated to the whole sordid mess.
The whole thing was believable. I didn't have to suspend disbelief to encounter the aliens. It was very natural.
Uniqueness raises this film to an 8.
(BTW: The film does bash Nigerians. Is it deserved?)