Amazing movie, do not listen to the uneducated oh no reviews who can't appreciate a real movie. Highly recommend watching!

Yes that is quite a statement I made in the title, but in an advanced screening I saw District 9, and it did not disappoint. District 9 has a great story told about aliens coming to earth, and being forced to stay here because of their weaponry. The aliens are abused and the movie makes you feel sympathetic towards the aliens as they are beaten and what not. But thats not all you get with this movie. You sure get a GORY one at that. When you finally see the aliens' weapons at work for the first time, you will some gory stuff. Yet we all know action can't carry a film, but the acting and storytelling in this movie is just so well done, it is just a great experience to watch. You will sit there after the movie thinking, this was such a great movie, when is the second one? I don't want to give any spoilers away because the less you know about this, the greater the movie is. And I guarantee you that in the trailers they hardly showed ANYTHING! GREAT MOVIE, go see it

I watched the midnight showing. I had no expectations of this movie at all and knew nothing about it except from what I seen from early trailers. My god, I was BLOWN away! This is an absolute must-see movie. Though I'm reading the negative reviews and it seems like those people just don't understand it. What do they expect? G.I. Joe with aliens? No, this movie was much more than that. Thought provoking. What if aliens really did come to our planet? Unlike the typical alien movies, no they aren't here to kill us nor will they magically go to a city like New York. Instead in District 9, they come to South Africa and are as vulnerable as humans. It's a much more realistic imagination of what could really happen. Again, don't let the ignorant people voting this movie down sway you from seeing it. Oh, and lastly. This movie isn't for the faint hearted, people are blown up and it can get pretty gorey at times.

If you're someone who got too into the hype there's a good chance you may be underwhelmed. Though if you're like me and limited your excitement to watching the trailers then you'll be suitably impressed with the movie. It has a unique take on the humans meet aliens movie theme. The aliens aren't evil, they're not saints, but they're not evil. Humans are complete monsters at times but we are redeemable as well, and it's very ugly and gritty how the characters behave. The realism present in the emotions that both human and alien portray is astonishing and you have to ask yourself how much is media propaganda (in the movie) and how much is real?

This movie is exactly that: much more than you think. I was really surprised to see a movie that started almost as if it were a comedy just to turn into one of the most serious and deeply thought allegories of one of the greatest problems of our planet today. Apartheid as well as the story of refugee/uncontrollable immigration and the intolerance of modern societies unravel in front of our eyes in the form of a very powerful and shocking allegoric thriller that have us psychologically involved from the first minute. An excellent work with very strong and clear messages, the kind that we unfortunately don?t see around very often.