District 9 is a film bleeding with originality, as well as many other thing. It is a story about how the human race doesn't learn from its mistakes and how money is more important some people than any single life they ruin while trying to gain it. With absolutely fantastic special effects and jaw-dropping set pieces this is defiantly one of the best films of the year. The beginning of the movie is shot like a documentary and it seamlessly converts into a narrative very quickly. The protagonist named Wikus van der Merwe starts out as a mild-mannered kind of average weakling of a guy. He slowly turns into a Rambo-eske character after a substance begins to turn him into an alien. Sharlto Copley gives a fantastic performance as Wilkus. The action in the movie is so cool and so heart stopping it makes my time seeing this film in the theater one of the most intense film experiences of my life. This is director Neill Blomkamp's first feature length film and I've hear rumors he is in the running to direct the Halo film. If Halo is any where as good as this movie I'll be first in line to see it.
District 9 - 4 out of 4
-Zach
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