District 9

Sci-Fi
3.5 stars
Better than average sci-fi movie if you don’t mind hideously ugly aliens with voices that sound like a combination of belching and retching. A huge spaceship parks itself over Johannesburg, South Africa full of over a million malnourished aliens who get transferred to a slum-like refugee camp called District 9. The aliens are violent scavengers who raid dumps and seem incorrigible until you see how their treatment led them to regress to this state. Filmed annoyingly in documentary style, the film location proved more interesting with the international cast – none of whom were familiar to me. Sharlto Copley stars as a field operative in charge of evicting the aliens from District 9 and confiscating any illegal possessions. They never explain why the spaceship seemed to stall out (if they did, I missed it), and they leave it wide open for District 10. Good movie for sci-fi lovers.