Ryan A. Pearce
13Apr12
Thank you. I completely agree.
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Liam Peters
8Apr12
This is quite simply how one makes a genre film. Using a post-Apartheid South African backdrop, Blomkamp brings a real energy to the screen with a keen sense of how to move a story along whilst making a point. Sure, the subtext is a little heavy-handed at times but he recovers nicely with his willingness to go to the hard places. Technically outstanding, District 9 has to be one of the surprises of its year.
angiebasuki
22Jan12
an unexpectedly great movie it is! me, as a human, was touched and felt guilty that we are less "human" than aliens. the cinematography was also epic, that they made a documentary-like movie to reach the audiences' reality-feel.
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willythesalesman
20Jan12
to me this movie was like point break. not too deep or truthful but once it's in motion it goes on like a roller coaster ride.
Rina
17Nov11
A solid popcorn-action-movie, yet highly emotional and sociocritical. Dark, yet very enjoyable. Sharlto Copley is wonderful in the lead and both the adult alien and his son are adorable. The 'we-fear-what-we-don’t-know' aspect was very intriguing as well as the comparism of media coverage with 'real life experience', pointing out the manipulative potential of media.
Pasta
14Aug11
The film's promotional material plus its first half hour made me believe it was going to do social commentary with a very welcome dark sense of humour. But once it decided to become a sci-fi action flick/drama it became painfully obvious that, if I'm to take the film's plot at face value, it's full of holes and failing characterisation. Had they just stuck to making the film as it was advertised, it would've worked.
Jason Winstanley
28Jul11
Takes the TV- based material of Kenneth Johnson (V, Alien Nation) to a higher level, and creates a beautiful, brutal and epic film that manages to be entertaining, engaging, sad, pathetic, terrible, horrible and touching.
gloryofistanbul
27Jul11
Superbly constructed film, brilliantly made, replicates the troubles between blacks and whites in alien and human form
Risya
14Jul11
A science fiction classic! Very original and innovative in concept. When I watched this I was emotionally rooting for the Aliens and by the metaphor somewhat we can see how it is relating to the nowadays society. It is by far one of the most interesting and entertaining Sci-Fi movie I've ever watched! The visual effect were good and the stories were provocative.
Daniel S.
19Feb11
Half social comment, half ROBOCOP and half grasshopper hunting. In short, a film that math students will love. Recommended.
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Dr. Strangelove
5Feb11
An overrated film, but still an interesting work of science fiction, albeit not a great one. Moon was much more effective and did not have a forced allegory woven into its work. An interesting premise and a picture that leaves me interested in Blomkamp's future as a director. The other unnerving concept was the awful action scenes near the end of the film which truly blew everything the film had built up previously.
Pradeep Nayak
1Feb11
Narrative of District 9 is so gripping and coming of age that in the end you just rewind what you saw and say ..'wow'
Zachary Curl
25Jan11
i saw this soon after seeing Moon, and i could be more pleased with the state of hard sci-fi again.
Elbow
2Jan11
This is possibly my favorite movie of all time, because it blends sci-fi with real world problems like racism and the darker side of human existance. I love how the computer generated objects and the real world objects coincided perfectly, to me this is a gem of modern film-making and I would certainly watch it multiple times...
M4NU3L
11Dec10
I enjoyed the reality of alien contact and the ramifications; if they did 'come in peace' so to say. Where explosions and conspiracies aren't the driving force; but the meaning to what makes us human, and does that make us any different from an alien race. In anycase it's a great story, and beautiful film. I re-watch it occasionally.
Andrés Baldíos
5Dec10
This is one of the most powerful movies of these last times. The ambition of men by judging everything we unknown, the racism, the prejudice, the abuse of scientific methodology in "good will" for outer-space research, the fucking militarism and the strenght of love in the end of all things. This is, actually, an astonishing, profound study of our egos and our darkening aspects as conquerors... I think.
Seth Farmer
3Oct10
This one had so much potential. It could have been the next great film about extra terrestrials, the most significant since Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But I guess the filmmakers were more concerned with telling a really boring and forced allegory. As it stands, though, it's still a (mostly) impressive and involving action piece.
Erik Gregersen
20Sep10
One of the most satisfying sci-fi films of recent years. Great lead performance by Sharlto Copley.
