We’re no great fans of science fiction or alien movies having watched few-to-hardly-any movies in this genre.
But with some SI readers slyly recommending District 9, we figured it’s time to take a look.
So after quickly skimming through a few reviews and finding them mostly adulatory, we hotfooted over to the mall and watched the matinee show ($6) of District 9 yesterday.
Folks, District 9 is a lovely movie that keeps you completely engrossed with events on the screen for the entire 120 minutes or so.
Directed by 29-year-old Neill Blomkamp, District 9 is an electrifying movie, one of the best we’ve seen this year.
The movie is the gripping story of a large group of aliens living in a Johannesburg slum for two decades after their mothership develops some problem over the city.
Shunted by the government of humans to the District 9 slum, the aliens, referred to disparagingly as prawns by humans because of their grotesque physical appearance, multiply over time to 1.8 million setting the stage for the inevitable conflict with their human neighbors.
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