District 9 (DVD) Reviews

I went into this film with absolutely no prior knowledge and no expectations, and I have to admit I was blown away. To start with (it's one of the first things you'll notice after all) for a (relatively) low budget film the CGI is incredible. The Braun (the aliens) in particular are fantastically realised, despite the complete lack of humanity ...  Read the complete review

*Film only review* The number of original franchises to come out of Hollywood in 2009 can be counted on one hand. Of those that have impacted my viewing they can be counted on one finger, 'District 9'. The money men of California are so scared of risk in the late 00s that they have given up on backing anything that is not based on a ...  Read the complete review

Director: Neill Blomkamp Screenplay: Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell Genre: Action - Drama - Sci-fi Country: USA/New Zealand Certification: 15+ Language: English/Nyanja/ Afrikaans MAIN CAST: Sharlto Copley [Wikus Van De Merwe] In 1990, an alien ship appears above ...  Read the complete review

How I have longed for some serious sci-fi, instead of worthy Will Smith saving the world, bloody Star Trek, or Hollywood making up for lack of plot and characters with zillion dollar SFX that swamp anything else a movie might have had to offer. So here it was. The Great White Hope of sci-fi, and I was all geared up to give it every ...  Read the complete review

District 9 is the feature length debut from Neill Blomkamp, who also co-wrote the screenplay and expands upon the ideas first explored by Blomkamp in his short film Alive In Joburg. The film begins in mock-documentary style and recounts the major event of an alien spaceship becoming stranded above South Africa's Johannesburg in 1982. ...  Read the complete review

When I heard about this film and saw the hype around it I thought god not another alien invasion movie and didn't jump and the chance to rush down and have a watch. My first reaction was how can they keep re-doing the films like Independence Day, War of the worlds etc etc. However I had the opportunity to watch it and thought why not give it ...  Read the complete review

This is without a doubt the best film i have seen this year. Not looking at the amazing visuals, the story itself is brilliant, captivating the audience. I liked the fact the the film is set in South Africa, which makes a changed from most films now days which are set in LA, Washington or some other big American city. The film is an obvious ...  Read the complete review

Advantages: Original, great concept District 9 is a science fiction film that is flimed in a interesting documentary style. the movie starts off by telling you how an alien spaceship appeared over Johannesburg in the 1980's. 2 million odd aliens were found in that spaceship and relocated onto an area of land in Johannesburh, later ...  Read the complete review

Does a one star rating give you some idea of my feelings toward this movie? I would like it to show my disappointment at time wasted and what at had been quite a compelling trailer. A deceiving trailer as it happens. The film starts like a documentary, scientists being interviewed about fictional events that were then played out in the ...  Read the complete review

This is a supposed Sci fi movie and I was looking forward to seeing it. The film is basicaly about a ship of extra terrstrial space ship that suddenly appears over Johannesburg carrying a band of creatures that are soon refered to as prawns by the humans. The movie then jumps twenty years later where you see the aliens being ...  Read the complete review

I can without a doubt say that district 9 is one of the best movies I have seen this year. I went to LA on my honeymoon and we saw all of these benches with 'for human use only' written on them and wondered what it was all about and now we know. I watched the trailer and being a big fan of sci-fi, we were at the cinema 2 hours later. It was a ...  Read the complete review

Usually people love the movie, hate the movie or are simply in between - meaning that the movie isn't anything special for them. District 9 goes a step forward. People eider hate the first part of the movie and love the second part. Some people like the second (action) part of the movie and hate the first one. Some hate the entire move and some ...  Read the complete review

In 1990 a giant spaceship landed over the city of Johannesburg and millions of aliens, nicknamed 'prawns', were brought down to earth and confined to District 9, a refugee style camp in the city centre. But twenty years later the humans have had enough of the prawns who continue to break rules and commit crimes and violence. Wikus Van De Merwe ...  Read the complete review

This year has to be one of my favourite years for movies and its not even the end of the year yet. From Gran Torino through to Inglorious Basterds, or even lower budget films like The Damned United, I have to say that District 9 is definitely one of the best I have seen this year, maybe even one of the best I have seen this decade. It is really ...  Read the complete review

District 9 is a Sci Fi thriller and a bit of a mixed bag of a film in my opinion, there were parts of this film where I thought it was brilliant then suddenly it went downhill rather fast and became quite dull, the pace of the film just seemed to change constantly and at the end I was rather undecided whether to recommend it or not hence I have ...  Read the complete review

Wow really not what I expected from this film, having said that I'm not really sure what I did expect. It is a very unique film and one which cannot really be compared to anything before seen on film, for me it actually reminded me of real life rather than some rehashing of a twenty year old movie cliché. The film is set in writer Neill ...  Read the complete review

District 9 (2009). Cert.15 This is a film that many of my friends said is a 'must see'....I read one newspaper review then decided I would not read too many other reviews as the one review I read was quite damning and did not seem to fit with my friends views. Let me start by saying it is quite a strange film in ...  Read the complete review

WOW. I can honestly say I have not been to the movies and seen a film to this standard in a while! Firstly it has next to no actors I've heard of - a thing that I love about peter Jackson! And 2. It's set somewhere other than AMARICA! Which it even says in the film which is refreshing and new! The special effects of the massive space ...  Read the complete review

"District 9" had barely registered on my radar so I was rather surprised when my bestfriend and my parents told me in the same week that I really had to go see it. None of them really told me anything about the film as my mother insisted that it was the type of film that is better the less you know about it. So, with that in mind, I'll ...  Read the complete review

If you saw the plot outline for District 9 for the first time, you would be forgiven for thinking that it was completely crazy and totally unnecessary for a film. Views that surely such a random story cannot be a success were common amongst many, though, looking back, there was certainly something which struck lucky with the public, as this film ...  Read the complete review