Fresh
It's a brashly confident debut, full of sharp, inventive detail (the prawns are crazy for cat food) and rooted in a couple of Big Ideas. Well worth the time, if not all of it.
Tom Charity, CNN.com
Overview
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
Director and cast
- Neill Blomkamp Director
- Sharlto Copley as Wikus van der Merwe
- Jason Cope as Grey Bradnam
- Nathalie Boltt as Sarah Livingstone - Sociologist
- Sylvaine Strike as Dr Katrina McKenzie
- Elizabeth Mkandawie as Interviewee
- John Sumner as Les Feldman - MIL Engineer
- William Allen Young as Dirk Michaels
- Nick Blake as Francois Moraneu - CIV Engineer Team
- Greg Melvill-Smith Cast
- Robert Hobbs Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
You don't feel bamboozled, fooled, or patronized by District 9, as you did by most of the summer blockbusters. You feel winded, shaken, and shamed.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
Perhaps we're witnessing a new dawn for politically engaged sci-fi and horror, with Blomkamp as a latter-day George Romero. Either way, this is a stunningly impressive debut.
Tom Huddlestone, Time Out
Fresh
To call this the best shrimp-from-outer-space South African apartheid allegory ever made does not begin to do it justice. But it's a start.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
This is a great movie.
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
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