A few years back, I posted about director Neil Blokamp's brilliant short, Alive in JoBurg. D9 is the concept fully realized (with financial help from big shot producer, Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson). District 9 gets the Fuzzy nom for Best Picture of the year.
Amy Biancoli from the Houston Chronicle writes ...
Every now and then, a film comes along that both defies and compels description. District 9 is one such movie: a science-fiction action vehicle so brilliantly and fully imagined that real life, when it resumes after the credits, arrives with a new sense of dread.
This is categorically one of the best releases of the year so far — a spellbinding genre flick that's also a corrosive assault on the baroque inhumanity of common human beings.
What else can be said about it? That District 9 deftly weaves the faux-documentary gimmick with more forthright narrative segments and all-out, upscale action mayhem. That it bound me so closely, and so emotionally, to the central characters that I spent the entire running time in three agonized postures: gripping my seat in suspense, grabbing my head in panic and covering my mouth in alarm. This is unlike any other human-versus-extraterrestrial film in recent memory, though it's closer in spirit and conceit to Alien Nation than the macho hooey of Starship Troopers — and closer still to a couple of sci-fi/horror classics (plus a certain German novella) that I won't even name for fear of blowing the plot.
I simply refuse to spoil it for you. It's that good. Bloody, suspenseful, excoriating and flecked through with pathos and humor, District 9 is science fiction at its best.
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Posted by: MH | August 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM