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Name: District 9
Released: 2009-8-14
Cast: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young

District 9

R
1h 52m
2009

90%

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From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller. 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.

Director:

Neill Blomkamp

Producer:

Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham

Writer:

Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell

Cast:

Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi, Eugene Khumbanyiwa, Louis Minnaar, Hlengiwe Madlala

FEATURES

Deleted Scenes

The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log

Featurettes

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

90%

Critics Consensus: Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction classic.

Reviews

Deep Focus Review

Brian Eggert

Blomkamp doesn’t miss a step. His film is cynical, funny, smart, exciting, and satirical—all without losing his audience’s involvement in the scenario.

District 9 might not be a classic like Alien or ‘The Terminator’ (not many films are), but it’s still an effective sci-fi film with depth and style.

Funny and ferocious, cynical and satirical, "District 9" is both ingeniously clever and reflectively thoughtful, a science fiction thriller that bubbles with social commentary.

I don't think the film is the epic reevaluation of science-fiction storytelling like some people have hailed it to be. But I do think it's a solid smart sci-fi action flick that's honest to its characters

One of the most creative and exciting science-fiction adventures in the last decade.

November 28, 2020

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