District 9

District 9 was one of those mind blowing films that got over shadowed by more marketed films. District 9 a film from the South African director Neill Blomkamp brings us to Johnannesburg year 2000, twenty years after an alien craft has stalled in the sky over the city. Once forces open the craft they find the inhabitants inside living in horrible conditions. The extraterrestrials are removed from their craft and placed into a concentration camp, District 9. District 9 is a shanty town filled with the human named prawns -A darogatory term used as slang because of their vaguely crustacean appearance-, this is where the story unfolds.

I didn't have big hopes for District 9. I figured, yeah big guns, CGI crab people, this is going to be like Lake Placid and I'm going to be really let down but I was very far off the mark. This movie is all about the story. The characters are fantastic, the prawns, the gangs, and the main character. This was an emotional roller coaster, complete with highs and lows. You build a connection with the sad lost prawns and even a connection with the over eager ignorant main character Wikus.

Wikus means well, at least well for himself and his family. During the film you hate Wikus, his ignorance and uncaring nature for the obviously abused prawns sicken but this soon takes a wild change. District 9 throws you a curve ball from way out in left field. The entire story shifts and you are pulled with it.

District 9 is on my top twenty list of must see movies. It isn't often I am so impressed by a film but District 9 had its cake and ate it too. Complete with a potentially dark ending leaving you wanting more and more of this movie.