Not what you expect!...but in a good way!

Rating: 10/10 (8 October 2009)

An extreme and original surprise, spilled out from you-wonder-where, that presents an explosive portrait of the human character of all times, in a context unexpectedly chosen and unexpectedly highlighted, with small pieces of today-reality particularly relevant to the African/ South African setting. Having as a plot the inhabitance of an alien species for 20 years, with the status of refugees, and victims of the environment and of intolerance, altogether with the more than current obsession of human beings for armed power development, and exploitation of all available resources, the film presents, in a documentary manner at first a very realistically build story of a human representative, common and apparently without anything of the extraordinary, at first a victim of the intersection of the 2 species as well as of the already mentioned obsession, which turns against those whom he called as being alike, finding support and friendship exactly in the middle of the so- called hostile, obtaining or rather spinning to the surface strength, courage and will to fight under the influence of his survival instinct, moments in the production that reminds me from time to time of the unfolding events from another favorite of mine - The Fly. The special effects are extremely well made, with all the horrific elements extremely realistic, and focusing on detail and movement. Eat this, Transformers!