Good but not without issues.

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2009)

This was an excellent movie. Rather than focusing on a plot that involves extinction between species we see a plot about the coexistence of them. We see racism as well as many other aspects of a society that in my opinion would be dealt with in no better way than of what was depicted in this film. My only hang up with it, is that even after the great CGI, or the compelling and immersing story, This is a movie that you won't watch more than a few times a year. Unless you don't mind watching the movie over and over knowing the same points, there no underlying truth or hidden mystery left within. Sure, we don't really find out what happens to our government agent we love so much, nor do we find out what becomes of our favorite prawn, but I don't care and I don't think many viewers did either. Which leads me to my point. There was no intellectual backbone,We got no insight on how the prawn tech worked other than it required their DNA structure to work. I am more interested on how the blast from their weapon kills a person rather than how the technology is used. No movie is without it's flaws, and neither was this one, but the movie was so well done that my problems that I have are subtle at best. This is a must see if your an avid watcher of movies.