Starring: Sharlto Copley

Directed by: Neil Blomkamp

So on my Martha’s Vineyard vacation over the weekend, I saw the movie “District 9” in a small movie theater in Edgartown on that island.

Here is my review:

Plot/synopsis: Strange beings of extraterrestrial’s have been stuck on planet Earth for 20 years. A huge mothership hovers over the city of Johannesburg, South Africa in the year of 2010. The area is also known as District 9 where it is taken over by aliens and the military. The aliens live on Earth as part of human’s every day lives.

MNU is a company that is interested in the aliens use of weapons, which they don’t care about the aliens going back to their home planets where they came from.

The MNU operative and main boss, Wikus van der Merwe, goes on a mission to force aliens to move to a new District 10. While searching an aliens home, Merwe finds a small alien device which squirts liquid in people’s faces. Merwe finds out that he is soon turning himself into one of those aliens by that liquid.

Merwe becomes friends with an alien named Christopher Johnson who has a small alien son. Christopher agrees to help Merwe to stop turning himself into an alien, to go back to human. Christopher explains he needs to bring Merwe to the mothership in order to turn him back to a full human but first he needs the fluid for the small alien spacecraft to travel up to the mothership with.

This was a perfect movie. Very good storytelling, very good acting, good pacing, and great cinematography. Most sci fi action adventures have silly plot lines and lots of corny action, but “District 9” was a very serious movie. I loved how they made this movie seems like it can really happen. Very realistic stuff. Probably the most intelligent writing I’ve ever seen.

No big stars at all in this film, the entire cast were  pretty much unknowns. I heard there is going to be a sequel to this film, ’cause I notice there is still more story to tell.

It’s very rare we get movies with really good writing, and finally we get one. Whether you’re into sci fi films or not, you should see this. This is my second favorite movie of the summer, right behind, “Star Trek”. This movie, “District 9” is more of a mix of sci fi/horror and action. 1st half of “District 9” gets serious and very deep, 2nd half gets really action packed.

I thought, “District 9” was a fuckin’ masterpiece, and loved every single minute of the film. Do yourself a favor and see it! Genius storytelling here.

Score for “District 9” = **** (4 stars as in “Excellent”)

Kev