District 9 is a pretty interesting flick & I highly recommend it. It's not your typical Sci-Fi flick & the first half it just uses "not of this Earth" Aliens as "illegal Aliens". The second half starts to get a bit more Sci-Fi & goes from thought provoking to Iron-ET-Transformers. It also has it's gory moments ( Peter Jackson produced it & his early work was a bit different then his recent works).
In many ways it is highly original with it's own look & feel, while on the other hand it does use all the concepts you've seen in Sci-Fi before (this makes more sense once you're seen the movie) For the record it's not perfect & there were some aspects of the storyline where you had to throw logic to the wind...but overall a captivating movie that tells the story of a people put into a ghetto by others & given no rights & one man's fight to save himself body & soul. It does not paint a pretty picture of humanity. We are shown to be rather brutal both physically & emotionally. While not quite the sleeper of the summer...still one of this summers best. Star Trek is the Blockbuster of the summer & Hurt Locker this summer's sleeper.
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