Title: District 9
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: You should watch the name of the guy who directed this, and apparently the main star was also in the new A-Team movie. He played Murdock in it, which I thought was Bradley Cooper’s role, which just goes to show how much I actually paid attention to that movie.
Introduction: I pulled this movie off the shelf at the library.
Location: In Johannesburg, Africa. Yes, they had a budget, but more on that later.
Plot: Aliens have landed in Johannesburg and somewhat taken residence there as well. Many details of this mockumentary are skipped over, such as language translation, but we get right into the point instead where, basically, there has been enough crime and all these things being blamed on the aliens (called “prawns”, as somewhat of a racist term) and so they’re getting evicted without notice and without remorse. From there, the man in charge of this whole thing turns into a partial alien himself. This leads to the government wanting to know what he is capable of, which leads to him fleeing them and going on the run. It just turns into this epic sci-fi movie that will grip you from the beginning to the end. Quite honestly (and obviously) this movie is based on the apartheid in Africa. Looking at this movie and the natives treatment of the aliens, I mean, they don’t even have to be from another planet, they could have just been from another country or city. It’s kind of funny how racism and blind hatred transcend any limits even in space, but there you have it. This movie is the reason why we should all love each other and stop fighting already.
Acting: It’s good, I have no complaints.
Production: It looks like a big budget movie and it kind of is. Word is that the director was given thirty million dollars by Peter Jackson to make whatever he wanted when a movie based on Halo fell through. This is what we got, and I’m actually happier with this.
Sex/Nudity: No. They say that the man on the run had sex with the aliens, and they pictures which aren’t even that graphic. The most graphic content in this movie comes from the blood.
Special Effects: Toward the end, my man gets into a robot-like suit powered by his alien DNA and starts killing every human who tries to mess with him. It’s amazing that this isn’t an actual documentary because it looks so real.
Overall Verdict: This movie, aside from making me really happy for sci-fi, makes me excited for the next work of this director as well as a possible sequel eventually happening. I don’t ever say this, trust me you can go back and read the archives, but I honestly believe that this could be the single best sci-fi movie in the last thirty years. If not from the 1980’s/1990’s, it is definitely the best sci-fi movie since we entered the year 2000 without a doubt. This movie will one day top lists with The Day The Earth Stood Still and the like.
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