District 9

With Inglourious Basterds coming in Malaysia 2 months after the official release, I begun to feel depressed and bewildered of the amount of shit blockbusters raping the summer. Then comes along the greatest anti-depressant of 2009, District 9. I fucking love this movie. This is the best movie I've seen so far (IB!) for the year 2009. It was FUCKING awesome! A truly original, provacative sci-fi masterpiece. Basically, it took everything that was wrong with the world and placed it int his film to challenge what it meant. I'm talking racism, corporate corruption, political strife, selfishness and the violence that exists in humans. The story revolves around an alien spacecraft the size of two cities stopping above the city of Johannesburg 20 years ago. The governments of the world under pressure from the public decided to bring the aliens (who were malnourished) down to Earth and set up an area for them to live in. Designated District 9. Living in slum like conditions and continually being harressed by the Nigerian gangsters living there and also increasing conflict with the human population, MNU was formed to ensure proper surveillance over the aliens. But the main purpose of MNU is to discover how to use the alien weapons technology.

The film is presented in a unique way. Adopting a documentary style in some parts to introduce the themes and setting and the more traditional film making to advance the story. The starring cast consists of strictly put, unknowns so there is no star power at access here, with the main actor Sharlto Copley putting up a reasonable at best performance as Wikus van der Merwe; an MNU field operator who is in charge of transporting the aliens to District 10. In the midst of it, he gets infected with an alien substance that changes his DNA to a more alien one presenting the opportunity where he can actually use the alien weapons making him the most valuable person on Earth. Neill Bloomkamp does the one thing that made this movie such a spectacular show, and that was pulling the audience in. The film sucks you in right from the start and doesn't let off until it draws your emotional and intellect all across the floor.District 9 was awesome throughout. From the special effects, to the emotional stance, to the witty flow of the story, to the character development; all the fucking way to the fucking bank. Regarding the special effects, this movie only had a budget of $30 million! And it still managed to create a believable world filled with unique characters. Alien designs were extraordinary and you can actually sense the authenticity of the aliens (Christopher) and it felt real. Unlike Transformers 2 (where the budget strikes at a fucking $200 million) could never have produced robot characters that we would have given a damn about. In District 9, watch out for the blood spewing moments when man meets alien ray blast. The film is bloody and doesn't hide it. If you taught that Rambo 4 was bloody, you haven't seen nothing yet. The film ends at a conclusive note beckoning the audience to think about what will happen next but frankly I just hate those kind of endings. The one negative aspect that I found regarding the movie was censorship.

Seriously, I know your doing your job Malaysian Censorship Board but, MOTHERFUCK! They want to censor the word 'fuck' but end up censoring the word after the word 'fuck' so it sounds like, "Give me the fucking *cut*". And its not like they bleep the word. No. They fucking cut the piece distorting the movie and fucking pissing me off. If you need to cut, cut it properly so that the viewers don't notice anything but better yet don't censor anything. Fuck off.

Positive: Superb plot, Original, Special Effects, Blood & Gore, Great directing, Intelligent, Funny at places, Great finale

Negative: Fucking censorship, Inconclusive

I give D9 a 9/10. I'm gonna watch it again tommorow and can't wait.