DISTRICT 9
4 out of 5 stars

MAN, this one was done in such a style i've NEVER seen BEFORE!!! really enjoyed this flick about alien segregation and the allusion to south african apartheid! :) (another south african movie to add to my SA/world cup theme these days...)


district 9's plot is ALL about how a global defense corporation called multi-national united is hired by the south african goverment to evict/relocate the aliens into a new concentration camp. this is because these "prawns" came to johannesburg 20 odd years ago in their ship, got stranded on earth, and the humans allowed them to take refuge on our planet... well, the humans today thought that it would be a good idea to evict them from their slum, and serve them illegal eviction notices for relocation. it's total illegal search&seizure, but what "rights" do these aliens have anyway, right? (well, that's exactly the way MNU thinks) so, a mild-mannered guy named witus who worked for MNU heads the eviction process, and things get CRAZY very quickly... riots start in the slum, aliens are shot in cold-blood, fires blaze, and witus makes the mistake of opening a mysterious can filled with weird brown liquid in his face... (i'll just stop @ that and make you watch this one to find out what happens...)

i think i really liked the way this was shot, esp. in a docu-action style because the movie starts off as a documentary with interviews about this situation in johannesburg, then transitions off into the traditional action movie style we're used to seeing. the storyline is quite intense and unpredictable, and i think the writers for this did a superb job with the momentum and allowing us to see the POVs of witus and his predictament (aka the transition), christopher the prawn and his predictament (aka going home), and the greedy/corrupt MNU who wants to develop the advanced alien weaponry for their own profit. this is another case of the "evil human" plot just like in avatar, but i think this is FAR better in style, plot, and acting. the only thing i would warn is that this movie is quite GRAPHIC... you'll see human body parts getting ripped off, body parts being blown up, and the like... VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED. (don't say i didn't warn you either...)

LOL the catfood obsession is totally random... but them prawns REALLY like to eat it... soooo bizarre! :P