From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and
director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original
sciencefiction thriller that "soars on the imagination of its
creators" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). With stunning special
effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world
where the aliens have landed... only to be exiled to a slum on
the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the
mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology.
Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien
shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate
outsider on your own planet.
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A provocative science fiction drama, District 9 boasts an
original story that gets a little lost in blow-'em-up mayhem. Set
in Johannesburg, South Africa, District 9 begins as a mock
documentary about the imminent eviction of extraterrestrials from
a pathetic shantytown (called District 9). The creatures, it
turns out, have been on Earth for years, having arrived ly
and starving. Initially received by humans with compassion and
care, the aliens are now mired in blighted conditions typical of
long-term refugee camps unwanted by a hostile, host society. With
the creatures' care contracted out to a for-profit corporation,
the shantytown has become a violent slum. The aliens sift through
massive piles of junk while their minders secretly research
weapons technology that arrived on the visitors' spacecraft.
Against this backdrop is a more personal story about a bureaucrat
named Wikus (Sharlto Copley) who is accidentally exposed to a
-altering substance. As he begins metamorphosing into one of
the creatures, Wikus goes on the run from scientists who want to
harvest his evolving, new parts and aliens who see him as a
threat. When he pairs up with an extraterrestrial secretly
planning an escape from Earth, however, what should be a
fascinating relationship story becomes a series of firefights and
explosions. Nuance is lost to numbing violence, and the more
interesting potential of the film is obscured. Yet, for a while
District 9 is a powerful movie with a unique tale to tell.
Seamless special effects alone are worth seeing: the (often
brutal) exchanges between alien and human are breathtaking. --Tom
Keogh
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Synopsis
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Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth.
Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in
technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from
their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home
in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over
what to do with them.
Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over
the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United
(MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens’ welfare. MNU
will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens’
powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of
the weaponry requires alien .
The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head
when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU
field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of
the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley),
contracts an alien virus that begins changing his . Wikus
quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the
most valuable – he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien
technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place
left for him to hide: District 9.
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