District 9

District 9 - I only barely knew what this movie was about before I went to it. I learned that it was about aliens who came to earth and were living in kind of an alien ghetto. That is all I knew. The concept is kind of neat. A ship full of aliens ended up over Johannesburg twenty years earlier (than the movie). A company, I guess you would call it, took control and created a neighbourhood for the aliens. It turned into kind of a slum city with a weird sort of hierarchy and black-market (for things like cat food...a delicacy, don't you know). When the movie picks up, the aliens need to be moved to a different area...a more spacious kind of city, which in reality is a concentration camp.

Wikus, pretty much the main character along with one of the aliens, is in charge of the relocation. The rest of the plot I will put under white...hilite to read. Wikus accidentally infects himself with a black substance that is essentially turning him into one of the aliens. The substance was supposed to be used as fuel to get the ship going so they could return to home. The company kidnapped Wikus to perform experiments on him and after escaping he teams up with the alien. They form a friendship out of necessity and that's about all I'll say.

Now to the reaction/thoughts part of the movie. I found that besides the beginning, the pace of the movie did not vary at all. As a result, it kind of felt 5 hours long! Not so fun. It was pretty much just gore and death and shooting and vapourizing. There were a lot of disgusting moments in this movie.

District 9 gets one kernel - could have been a really cool movie if the story had had more depth, but it was just not enjoyable to watch at all.