District 9 (Single-Disc Edition) Review
I read a negative review of this film that tries (and unspoken) to be everything to everyone, the political commentary, action movies, emotionally involving plot. I beg to differ. This is a film that stays with you for a few days at many levels. Highly recommended!
District 9 (Single-Disc Edition) Overview
From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller that "soars on the imagination of its creators" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed... only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.
District 9 (Single-Disc Edition) Specifications
A provocative science fiction drama, District 9 boasts an original story that gets a little lost in blow-'em-up mayhem. Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, District 9 begins as a mock documentary about the imminent eviction of extraterrestrials from a pathetic shantytown (called District 9). The creatures, it turns out, have been on Earth for years, having arrived sickly and starving. Initially received by humans with compassion and care, the aliens are now mired in blighted conditions typical of long-term refugee camps unwanted by a hostile, host society. With the creatures' care contracted out to a for-profit corporation, the shantytown has become a violent slum. The aliens sift through massive piles of junk while their minders secretly research weapons technology that arrived on the visitors' spacecraft.
Against this backdrop is a more personal story about a bureaucrat named Wikus (Sharlto Copley) who is accidentally exposed to a DNA-altering substance. As he begins metamorphosing into one of the creatures, Wikus goes on the run from scientists who want to harvest his evolving, new parts and aliens who see him as a threat. When he pairs up with an extraterrestrial secretly planning an escape from Earth, however, what should be a fascinating relationship story becomes a series of firefights and explosions. Nuance is lost to numbing violence, and the more interesting potential of the film is obscured. Yet, for a while District 9 is a powerful movie with a unique tale to tell. Seamless special effects alone are worth seeing: the (often brutal) exchanges between alien and human are breathtaking. --Tom Keogh
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9 out of 10 - DrekkOn -
Plot: 9 of 10, Acting: 8 / 10, visual effects: 10 out of 10 Overal effect: 9 of 10
An overrated bloodbath - Jeffrey C. Zoerner - Madison, WI
This film has attracted a lot 'of positive attention, and I must say, I'm at a loss to understand. I read the positive reviews here and understand that people like them, but still not sure why. I must admit that is impressive and the fact that the lead actor has a good job (although not say the same for the rest of the cast). However, the script seems a bit 'weak and full of questionable character and is aimed at even motiviationsthe maximum amount of Gore in the draft. But my main complaint is that when all is done, the film gets nothing.
The first 10 minutes of the film is a potentially interesting premise. The following 20 or 30 minutes is a plot twist has led to a fascinating track that could. What happens, unfortunately, a manhunt for 90 minutes shoot-em-ups is that the waste described above. Not only is it disappointing, but it is a kinddisgusting to see.
The violence is relentless and explicit, and everything is free. The film easily could have achieved their goals with just one tenth of Gore. Pathetic. And of course it is not flying on the grotesque, disturbing acts of chaos shows biological and painful transition. If you liked movies like "Saw" or "Hostel", could a taste for this kind of cinema, but I avoid this movie like the plague.
The way the film has chosen to portrayalien race was bizarre. With the exception of a father and his son, was a race of savages, the equivalent of a leg of hungry jackals. (Now that I think about it, the people in the film were not much better. Is portrayed) As such, it is difficult to know which make to the situation - we apologize for, because he is suffering from oppression, or people right to it is limited for them (humans), the same protection? The film could have the analogy of apartheid or servedanti-immigrant sentiment, but not raise a spark of empathy for both sides, are shallow in this regard.
So, what with the often-quoted praise that this movie is somehow a "parable for our time"? A parable? What is the message, then? That all living creatures are disgusting? That there is only a matter of time before rival sects destroy the other? We have nothing better to do with 90 minutes of our time watching that exploding heads and acts of mutilation? In fact,I tell you to please anyone this film, applauded what they have learned. (Which may well not always - I really want to know!)
As Eckhart Tolle would say that this is a step away from pain to pain-points-bodies. I'm still a weasel and a scoundrel, but there must be hope for me because this film made my stomach.
However, it is fair enough. Two stars for the effort put into it, the main character, and special effects. Also, this film was veryrecommended to me by someone whose opinion I respect, so can your response to this film horrible ugly to me (see what I did there?).
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