Here is another little movie review from me of a film I enjoyed much more than I anticipated. It was another choice by Alex and he evenually persuaded me to spend another Sunday in a darkened cinema hall. District 9 had been described to me variously as “The best sci-fi film since the Matrix”, “really good but made my girlfriend hide” and “abgefahren” . I think I agree most with the last one. For an alien film it was surprisingly…realistic. In fact, you could have replaced the aliens with just about any huge group of refugees and the film wouldn’t have been much different. Well, there wouldn’t have been all that cool alien gadgetry but the human story would have been the same.

The film is extremely cynical about human natures, and as I’m becoming increasingly cynical in my old age, I couldn’t really find any fault with its reasoning. Something like what happens in the film probably WOULD happen in real life. There will be no spoilers in this post and all I can say is that if you want a thought-provoking alien film, go see this. It is REALLY gory in parts though, so that should keep the boys happy as alien guts fly everywhere.

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