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District 9 [DVD] [2009]

District 9 [DVD] [2009]

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Director: Neill Blomkamp
Actors: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars reviews
Sales Rank: 44

Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Languages: English (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), English (Original Language), English (Audio Description)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5035822576032
ASIN: B002KCNT3G

Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: December 28, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 sickly 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 DNA-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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5 out of 5 stars A solid and brilliantly different movie   May 7, 2010
B. Tamlyn (Essex UK)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

As many reviews state, District 9 is an excellent film. I purchased the blu-ray version at the beginning of April on the strength of many of the reviews I had read on Amazon and also on imdb.com. I was not disappointed and found District 9 to be a unique and refreshing piece of film making.

Having the film set in Johannesburg instead of the usual New York or other big American cities was a stroke of brilliance, but I bet it was met with concerned looks from the studio. It clearly paid off and in my view and allowed for a more intimate production of the film. There is plenty of special effects but this never over shadows the surrounding environment of Johannesburg.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story of District 9 and the way in which it was filmed. A mixture of documentary style camera shots, interview tapes and regular movie camera work helped keep my attention. Although the story is not original, it has been given a refreshing twist with the involvement of Alien refugees adjusting to life on Earth and the abuses of them they encounter. The effects of alien weaponry on humans is something extraordinary and quite gruesome

The best part District 9 is the special features and this is why I have rated it 5 stars. This is the best production of a blu ray I think I have seen so far. I was very disappointed with The Hurt Lockers extras for such a newly release film. District 9 however has quite a few hours of extra content that is not only enjoyable to watch, but interesting to navigate and explore. I only wish other titles would follow this example. It ranges from the makeup and rendering of the alien race (commonly called "Prawns" which touches on the films racial tensions between Prawns and the Johannesburg population) to a data hub that gives you detailed information on the alien race and the corporation MNU. I recently found out the special effects budget was around $30 million! For the level of detail shown I was very impressed and glad to see that the story did not suffer due to it.




5 out of 5 stars prawn cocktail   September 24, 2009
stephen (england)
147 out of 160 found this review helpful

Neill Blomkamps stunning directorial vision tells the story of a stranded race of aliens nicknamed prawns due to their appearance living in a shanty town named District 9. Attempting to relocate them to district 10 is MNU agent Wikus van de merwe brilliantly played by Sharlto Copley.

Abandoning the usual settings of Hollywood sc-fi and placing the film in the harsh slums of South Africa is a masterstroke. Also no celebrity names here, all unfamiliar actors but who still give solid performances. It's dark and moving with a story that is well told and that grips right from the beginning. A story which is almost saying that all humans are selfish driven by greed and vanity. Which is why this movie pulls no punches, hardly anyone comes out of it smelling of roses.

Blomkamp has managed to create aliens that are grotesque in appearance but yet display just enough feeling that made me care for their predicament something that the other humans in the Movie lack. The effects are genuinely good and don't look cheap with imaginative weaponry. No cheesy laser zappers here, just explosive firepower wait until you see what one alien gun does to a human Body.

The last third of the movie involves firefights and brilliant battle scenes with alien weaponry. Rarely in the sci-fi genre has a movie been so deep dealing with so many issues through prejudice, mans inhumanity and cruelness and large corrupt companies. Central to it is the superb performance of Copley and his bond with the alien Christopher. Blomkamp has fused a great story together and created a classic sci-fi flick that I enjoyed immensely.



4 out of 5 stars "Star Wars" crossed with "Cry Freedom"?   July 25, 2010
Pat Mustard (Wolverhampton, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a highly accomplished sci-fi action thriller that carries a powerful social message. Nothing new there; science-fiction is by nature an allegorical medium through which contemporary and social and political issues can be explored in a neutral setting, and so there have been plenty of films, TV series and books before this one that have looked at racial division, xenophobia, media manipulation and corporate greed. But "District 9" gains attention right away through the very novel setting of Johannesburg - a city in a country where racial division remains a hot topic as much as being a painful history. In a fairly well-worn sci-fi scenario (think "Alien Nation", for starters), a giant spacecraft arrives on Earth carrying thousands of alien creatures who, on account of their appearance, quickly become known as "Prawns". The craft is non-functional, and the alien passengers are in terrible condition (intergalactic "boat people"?). They are housed in an enormous slum complex known as District 9, just outside Johannesburg, in squalid conditions and treated with increasing violence and suspicion by their human neighbours. Eventually, the authorities decide to relocate the aliens to a new camp further away from the city, and pass the job to MNU, your standard sinister multinational. The eviction is led by a rather nerdy, twitchy civil servant type called Wikus van der Merwe (played by Sharlto Copley), who veers between engagement with and contempt for the "Prawns" (but mostly contempt). During the eviction he is exposed to a mysterious black "fluid" that begins to effect a physical transformation (somewhat reminiscent of the "black oil" from "The X Files") into a "Prawn" and turns him into hot property, for on account of his transformation Wikus is now the only human who can operate the aliens' weaponry - weaponry that his employers at MNU are very eager to take advantage of, for immense financial gain. Realising that he will ultimately die in the corporation's experiments, Wikus flees to the only place he can seek refuge - District 9. There, he falls in with an alien known as "Christopher Johnson", and his young son, and it as this point, where Christopher explains the true nature of the black fluid that affected Wikus, that the film switches into a more conventional action mode, building up to a superb climax that boasts some champion visual effects. But there is more to it than lots of explosions and flashes of light - "District 9" does have a point to make regarding humanity's treatment of those it deems to be inferior, or different, and there is clear commentary here on the situation in South Africa. There are some upsetting scenes in this film, and a truly repulsive brute of a Special Forces colonel who is a naked denunciation of apartheid. Our emotional engagement with the physically unappealing "Prawns" (they look a bit like the creatures from the old computer game "Abe's Odyssey") comes via Christopher Johnson, a compassionate and sensitive figure whose appalling mistreatment at humanity's hands makes for consistently uncomfortable viewing, especially as there is a very touchingly portrayed father-son relationship with his young offspring, which adds further emotional power. Wikus' gradual transformation into an alien is gruesomely rendered, and be warned: it is established early on in the film that the "Prawns" have a taste for cat food.
This is a most impressive foray by South Africa into Hollywood territory, and one which exercises the brain as well as titillating (and occasionally repulsing) the senses. But it is easy to see why the Nigerian Government was so annoyed by this film.


4 out of 5 stars Starboks   April 16, 2010
Mr. P. J. Thomas (wales)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Quite an intelligent little sci-fi with the added quasi-political twist of immigration/apartheid thrown in although the more amplified at the action takes place in South Africa. The plot centres on a government agent drawn into the plight of stranded extraterrestrials trying to make their way back home to a planetary sanctuary. The effects are good and the action can border on a little gory at times but is well worth a view and easily ranks alongside other sci-fi contemporary classics.


4 out of 5 stars Something a bit different from the norm   January 13, 2010
E. N. Richards (Wales)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I love Blade Runner, Close encounters, Dark City, so you should know where I'm coming from. I thought District 9 was an interesting movie, that sadly left me wanting more. I feel this movie tried to cram in far too much into it's rather short run time, which let it down. But it was a very entertaining yarn, and it's ending I'm sure has been left for a sequel, perhaps District 10 ?

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