I have had the distinct pleasure to watch… District 9 on Tuesday. From the action packed scenes, to the underlying causes and overbearing feeling of everything being “messed up”. A movie based around the landing of an alien race on our planet in Johannesburg, Africa. The prawns mother ship has been disabled leading to the stranding of around 2 millions of these aliens, mixing with civilians, tribal gang leaders and the alien/area police.
This is were Wikus comes into play, a great actor in front of the green screen. He is found in one of his first movies and he had the talent to make me literally angry at him through the movies, as at first he wimped out and than began to only care for self-preservation. A serious and self-inflicted mistake lead to a total character transformation seen solemly to those of great acting skills.
Between Wikus, squad military leaders and the commanders of MNU, as well as the local gang leaders, the acting was top notch, considering that almost half of this movie was presented with graphic design and geen screening. Not to mention the concept of the characters and the zeal they present is top notch.
Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp ded a fantastic job presenting this story, the writing and directing of these two provided not only myself, but millions enjoyment and excitment in many ways. From cross species jokes to action and a mix of emotions, it has just the right mix.
In conclusion, this is a must see hands down. Although one would say the acting is somewhat low, imagine actually doing it all in front of the green screen, acting emotionally and physically to objects and aliens that arn’t even present! 5/5 In my books and if you have an X-Box, it is currently found on Netflix, through X-Box so go ahead and watch it, bag of popcorn suggested though…
He says the "F" word… a lot…
True, but what a movie! Great story and amazing job of the main character portraying his complete "evolution" in more ways than one 😉