District 9
R
The aliens came to Earth i the 1980s
and have been living below a silent mother ship hovering over Johannesburg in
South Africa, forced to live in slums under threat from the covert military and
the obtuse but crazy gang lords. Peter Jackson produced it with director Neill
Blomke, and they cast a bunch of unknowns, Dark gritty parable of slumlords and
nasty totalitarian bio tech from the present fuse to make this nod to political
strife as aliens under siege a brilliant eye popping, gore splattering carnival
ride. Takes the slum dog idea and makes it Alien Nation were it directed by a
master of gore and political satire. Hapless UN like spokesman is accidentally
forced into hiding when he comes in contact with an alien bio fuel which turns
him freaky. On the run from his own people and from the gangs that want his body
for reasons of their own, he has no choice but to ally with a smart alien and
his son who have control of a buried shuttle module and plan to put it to use
for their escape from the camp. The aliens are called Prawns and look like
giant humanoid shrimp. The name is a badge of insult. The totalitarian regime
in control of the district wants to relocate the aliens to a crappy new camp.
They've tried to make alien tech work, but it's partly bio activated and
doesn't work for humans. Jackson's Weta workshop supplied the look and effects
and made these aliens look ten times cooler than Lucasfilm in the new Star
Wars. Not for young children. Earns hard R for graphic violence. Subtitles
bring alien language alive but can be somewhat distracting. One of the best
scifi movies of the decade. Review by Adam Browne
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