District 9

2009 "You are not welcome here."

District 9

7.9 | 1h52m | R | en | Science Fiction

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

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7.9 | 1h52m | R | en | Science Fiction | More Info

Released: August. 14,2009 | Released Producted By: WingNut Films , TriStar Pictures Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.d-9.com/

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Cast

Sharlto Copley , Jason Cope , Nathalie Boltt

Director

Christo Strydom

Producted By

WingNut Films , TriStar Pictures

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Jason Cope

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Nathalie Boltt

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Reviews

paulclaassen I must admit I was skeptical about this film, as the trailer did nothing for my senses and even the premise seemed like something that's been done a hundred times before. But boy, was I in for a surprise! The film gets more interesting as it progresses, and is ultimately absolutely fantastic. It is a thrill ride of note with amazing action sequences and incredible visuals. Sharlo Copley is brilliant as Wikus van der Merwe, and deservedly won a few awards as Best Actor

Tony When you find yourself thinking about a film many times after viewing - particularly the final image. Very well done .

Sam AlMan I have to say that at first time I saw the aliens in this movie, I wondered why did I got excited for it!!As a science fiction movies fan, I would say that I liked it. It have all the reasonable factors that makes it a good sci-fi movie.. which is presentation of an unusual phenomena or event or whatever it could be and then the viewer should sit back and watch the effects of it with minimal predictable "smart" interference that usually found in sci-fi movies. This movie is not about aliens.. it is about humans. The aliens are just means to describe human behaviors. Most movies that involve alien race presence would of course showcases human behaviors toward the unknown.. but here and in this movie the aliens are not "unknown". For some reason an obviously more technically advanced alien race got "trapped" on earth. Up to almost half the movie run time, the presentation of aliens was through TV reports and interviews that documents the life of aliens in the restricted slum-like area after so many years on earth. On the second half of the movie run time, that's when the enjoyable part start.. the sympathy toward the aliens reflected back to be a sympathy toward human race for its cruelty and selfishness. I would recommend this movie to every science fiction genre fan.

bheadher There are an inordinate number of glowing reviews on here, that just don't match the actual quality in the movie...did Blomkamp hire every South African to run right over and provide these reviews??? I don't know, but there can't be that many degenerates in the IMDb world, to account for those glowing ones, heh heh...to be honest, there are some good CGI moments sprinkled throughout District 9, but the story itself is entirely Apartheid...but this time it isn't Blacks who are the underdogs, it is a spaceship full of insects, who spend most of their time vomiting or stealing, or just trying to be annoyingly gross...Sorry folks, but this was a rude, crude, under the top movie direct from South Africa...And it should have stayed there...