A belter

Rating: 8/10 (12 September 2011)

This has a similar feel to it to "The Host" a South Korean movie. If you liked that, watch this. If you like this, watch that.
It's a dark comic film with much ambiguity. Those looking for plot accountability are idiots - and have missed the point. It's not a staggeringly deep film, but it's a really good watch, with some very interesting points to make about long lasting prejudice, and our obsession with violence. It presents some potentially rather predictable set pieces with novelty and poses difficult moral questions in a tragicomic manner. See also: The Host, Four Lions.
The film constantly references the sci-fi genre, but never with the tired dreary one-upmanship of an action movie. This is a film which succeeds in inducing outrage, directed at whichever skinhead racist south African you feel is most vile. Nothing makes me happier than to see a racist xenophobe zapped with the most inconceivably vicious alien- artifact-weapon-thing. Does that make me a bad person?