• Dec 24
• DISTRICT 9: DVD review
• Posted by Deljhp - 24/12/09 at 09:24 AM

Director: Neill Blomkamp. Review: Adam Wing.

I find myself in a difficult position when it comes to writing a review for Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi spectacle District 9, because all I really want to do is type the word awesome 500 times. Probably not the best way to spend my time but what can I say, it’s rare in this day and age that I come across a movie that actually lives up to the hype that surrounds it, but despite early reservations, District 9 more than delivers on every level. It’s probably best if you go into the movie with as little knowledge as possible, but for those of you that really need to know the details, here we go…

More than 20 years ago, aliens made contact with Earth, but there were no bright lights and jaunty tunes were definitely out of the question. Humans, brought up on sci-fi movies and late night TV, waited for the inevitable attack but it never came. The aliens, or ‘prawns’ as they come to be known, became refugees and were given shelter in a makeshift home called District 9, while the rest of the world tried to work out what to do with them. Over to Multi-National United (MNU) then, a private company that stands to make tremendous profit if they can work out how to use the alien weaponry. It turns out that the weapons require alien DNA to work, step up Wikus Van Der Merwe, an African MNU field operative who is leading the human plight to have the alien refugees deported. Things turn sour when he accidentally contracts a mysterious virus that begins to change his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Alone and afraid, there is only one place left for him to hide, you guessed it, that’ll be District 9 then....Continue review here.

District 9 official site