WiseRatFlames An unexpected masterpiece

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

cricketbat District 9 has a first-time director and a cast of unknowns, yet it manages to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with many of the big-name movies. The performances are excellent, and the characters, as well as the story, are complex and interesting. Plus, it blends "news footage," documentary-style footage and traditional filming almost seamlessly. I'm impressed.

perica-43151 This movie is so original and nice, that I am not going to take points off for some over the top action sequences that take a bit from its genre and concept cutting nature. Like all sci fi master-peaces, this movie poses quite a few questions, gives us new perspective, that has not been explored enough if at all. And the frightening comments about aliens are even better when you learn that they were genuine, made about the human aliens i.e. refugees. But there is much more going on. This is a must see movie and a defining movie of the 21st century sci fi genre.

TheBigSick In War For The Planet Of Apes, Blade Runner, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, we have already seen stupid settings that humans are evil, ignorant and greedy, while the non-humans are sympathetic, determined and smart. Here in this Sci-Fi thriller, we see this setting again. The plot simply lacks any sense of credibility. The visual effects are cheap and lousy. The cameras are shaky and intolerable.

yocumag I think the only reason I watched this the first time is because I was in high school and it was popular. I just turned it off 30 mins in because Sharlto Copley's character did something way too dumb to forgive.The entire first act is A) unbearable to watch due to the camera action (and I enjoyed Cloverfield) and B) unbearable to watch due to Sharlto's awful South African accent. If you make it past there, you get into a story trying to make you like someone who is taking joy in evicting residents who are unwillingly stuck in a country, city, planet that doesn't want them there. I had to turn it off this time because our "hero" finds an unknown device of alien origin with alien markings filled with an alien goo and inexplicably opens it and it sprays him in the face, catalyzing act 3. From here, what I remember is fuzzy but I know it makes no sense that fuel would morph another species into your species. It's literally like if we poured gasoline on a shrimp and it sprouted arms, legs, etc. And, yes, I know that this is a metaphor for apartheid. I want to like this movie because interspecies politics can be entertaining and eye-opening, but this is very poorly written.