District 9

For me, THE best movie of 2009. Sure Avatar is the crowning achievement of the 2009, but up until late December, this was the best movie of the year. The perfect low budget sci-fi film that proves you don’t need Transformers type CG to make a great movie with special effects. The story is exceptional and has some great plot twists as well. The acting is absolutely great, and you don’t know any of the actors. Extreme gore but with purpose, and a plot thats actually believable. A harsh look at the human condition and prejudice regardless of the species. All in all, an utterly engrossing, fantastic movie.
28 years ago an alien space craft stalled high above Johannesburg South Africa. When the humans finally get inside they discovery an entire race of extra terrestrials (about a million) starving and sick. The government quickly sets up a refuge camp below the broken ship in an attempt to nurse the aliens (called Prawns) back to health, and keep them in one place. As the aliens begin to venture out into the city and cause trouble and the camp soon gets walls and becomes part ghetto, part concentration camp. The “aliens rights” bill is past, and it looks like the Prawn’s are here to stay. The human population reaches its end with the alien problem as their numbers have increased to almost two million, and wants them moved out of the city. A government group called MNU decides to relocate the alien population 200 miles away to a new tent city called District 10. This movie is about what happens when you try and evict two million alien life forms from a slum they have been oppressed in for 25 years.
is as original and entertaining as any alien movie in the last decade. The special effects only help with the realism, they don’t take over the movie. The best part of this movie is the story and, the interaction of the characters. Harsh, gross, and in the end, sad and heart felt. There are no excuses why you haven’t seen this movie yet.
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