Nerva's Movie Review of District 9

Rating of
1.5/4

District 9

Don't bother
Nerva - wrote on 02/08/10

This movie had one of the most misleading trailers in recent memory. I suppose the one positive thing that could be said about it is that it is somewhat original. The movie begins documentary style then transitions somewhere into a regular movie as if the director forgot a 1/3rd of the way through how he was shooting it. If it were to be shot regularly why bother with the documentary style to begin with? The plot itself is quite far feched, they need to blatantly explain key plot points throughout the movie, even so it explains very little. Such as why the ship broke in the first place, why if all the aliens are feeble, unthinking worker drones yet there is apparently a genious among them, you would think in the 20 years they were on the planet the one that was actually able to think would have made this fact known. Also their ability to reproduce was never discussed yet there are new children and the alien population growing. The movie itself really makes no attempt to explain anything about these aliens other than, apart from one, are all worthless criminals.

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