January 27, 2012

District 9 (2009)

Disrict 9 comes from producer Peter Jackson though how much of his creativity went into this film is unknown. It sees an alien spaceship hovering over Johannesburg. The story is about how these aliens have set up home in District 9 and are in the process of being evicted but the guy leading this gets infected and the story then moves onto his transformation from human to alien.

I liked this film a lot. It has some flaws such as dragging in the early stages and the moment where the guy gets the liquid all over his face you just think he's a tool and deserves everything he gets. That said the film does pick up from this moment. The final part of this film is very well done as you think that the father alien is going to be left behind instead of the human whereas its the other way around. I liked the idea that he became an alien and they showed that he had left the flower for his wife/girlfriend by showing him making a flower thus leaving us in no doubt that he had mutated.

I think that there should be a District 9 2 (or District 10 maybe) because there is something about this film that like Monsters is very fresh and quite different from what we have seen in previous alien movies.

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