Something else...

Rating: 3/10 (23 December 2010)

I liked the first Peter Jackson movies. They were low budget and terribly badly made - and that's what made them funny. I wasn't a big LOTR fan, but given the material he had to make movies from, he did a pretty damn good job. King Kong was just bad - who the hell takes a big ape back to USA when there are f*cking dinosaurs?
So Peter Jackson's movies got worse, but when I saw the trailers for District 9, I was excited. I was hoping for some action, some comedy, and by the looks of it, a portrait of our hostility towards foreigners - in this case aliens, which I saw as a metaphor. This movie delivers none of the above.
The movie starts as a documentary - a bit odd, but potential to be good. Special effects are great, we're all satisfied. The movie goes on and nothing at all happens. As I got impatient and wanted at least some plot, the main character starts turning into an alien and drops his camera. Until this point the movie was a documentary of how the aliens were living and how awfully they were treated. We only saw the aliens when the cameraman (main character) were filming them.
After this point, we still see the damn aliens - now with subtitles, and I've seen you-tube clips with subtitles on little stupid animals that had better dialog than this. The movie turns into an immature and meaningless flick where the main character, who is turning into an alien, tries to fit in with the aliens while fighting the government who wants to run tests on him while he is trying to escape the planet with some aliens. And problems keep on coming; he has a girlfriend who he wants to be with even though he's a f*cking alien - get a grip dude!
So to sum up, this is a documentary that turns into a... Uhm... Not a documentary when the cameraman loses his camera. It has no plot, no meaning, has no action (which is one of the three genres), and it only relates the aliens to foreigners in the beginning - that part goes bye bye with the camera.
I give it 3 stars: 1 for the pretty special effects. 1 for tossing 30 million dollars in the toilet (I wanna do that, and yes it was actually that expensive!) 1 for at least being better than all of Julia Robert's films.
Wanna watch a good sci-fi film with pretty effects? See Star Wars Episode 3 and don't waste time or money on this piece of garbage!