Product ReviewsDistrict 9 (Blu-ray, 2009)

British humor with aliens!

Amazing value! Movie was entertaining enough, but I was mostly amazed at the price. Almost the same as renting it!
The movie seems more like British humor, which can drag on a bit in unfunny territory for too long. I also found it odd that the aliens look a lot like bumblebee, the transformer.
Overall, it was still an entertaining idea. Read full review...

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Terrible

I LOVE a good alien movie. unfortunately for me, that is not what this is.
Incoherent most of the time. Characters that are not engaging in the least. A chaotic mess, don't waste your time watching this one. Read full review...

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A documentary type movie

An alien craft suddenly arrive above South Africa, once the government gets inside they find a group of aliens who are stranded and their ship is inoperable. The government sets them up in an area they call District 9.

Twenty years later, after the aliens have become a burden on society a group of MNU operatives is sent in to move the aliens to another location. One man become infected with an alien virus and is hunted by the government. The movie is about this mans flight from his own government and the aliens attempt to get out of the slum they have been forced to live in.

The movie is much like a documentary, it is well done and Peter Jackson has once again shown that he is an excellent film maker.

The only draw back is there is not enough action throughout the movie, it is at times too much like a documentary and not enough like a film.

The cast includes: David James, Devlin Brown, Jason Cope, Kenneth Nkosi, William Allen Young

I will not give away any secrets but will say that the movie left open a opportunity for a sequel at the end of this movie and I would not be surprised to see 'District 10' come out sometime in the future.Read full review...

Not for the faint of heart

The idea is fresh, what would happen is a spaceship full of aliens shows up and they're stranded here? The film tries to play to the dark side of humanity, suggesting that we'd create a Guantanamo Bay type camp to corral them in. And it tries to show the conflict of our actions. But that along with the well paid for CGI of the aliens is where the cleverness ends.
District 9 contains vast amounts of unfounded and cheap gratuitous violence which in films like the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon series can balance the film with good dialog. This film assumes the worst, that you don't notice the dialog and characters are too implausible or weak to accomplish the job. (I almost cringe to mention good movies and this movie in the same sentence.) After watching it, my first immediate thought was "Maybe I can re-sell this". You will go "Ewwwww" many times. (And I'm not the type to look away.)
The poignant parallel of how we treat others in our worst hour isn't enough of a hook to hang the rest of this movie on. Not for the kiddies, not for a relaxing evening, not a date movie, maybe for those who play the game and want to see the movie version, but I'd say skip it and save your money.Read full review...

Very Good

When I first started watching this movie I didn't think that I was going to like it. It starts off kinda like a weird sci-fi documentary and COPS combined into one weird sci-fi movie. But once it really got into the movie the more I liked it because it kinda went away from the whole documentary style movie. I was really surprised, because I was about to just stop watching it when it changed styles. It ends up being a really action packed movie with a lot of blood and gore like people exploding, body parts flying off, etc.

The only thing that I did not like about this movie was the language. Once it got into the movie it was just none stop f words all the way. I would recommend watching this movie if you are an adult, but I wouldn't let a child watch it.

Here is a little summary...

Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare - they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most vauluable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: "District 9".Read full review...

simply amazing!!!

movie is simply an excellent movie one you have to understand to enjoy
excellent bluray quality asks you to keep on watching the movie which gradually gets hold of you
one thing i like to share is that it doesnt support 5.1ch home theater which i dont know why and its not even mentioned on cover that this functionality is supported by the bluray but some "chopper whirring sounds" might support the home theater effect but other than that i didnt notice much
the part which i liked the most starts at the point when the alien transformation begins
and i bought it just for 11.5$ incl. shipping so hurrah!!!Read full review...

district 9

I watched it and wrote a review earlier but I wanted to add this ..
The first 1/2 is filmed in a shakey camera documentery type thing , that I hated and almost shut off , I feal the bad reviews are from the people who did not watch past that part .
But IF you make it past that the movie goes normal and the story picks up , they have these cool alien weapons (just point and people blow up) .
And a awesome robot .
The version I saw is not blue ray , but I bet the blue ray version has some cool extras !!Read full review...

Almost turned it off. The more I watched, the more I started to understand.

This movie starts out giving you the impression it is a poorly made lack luster B movie. I almost turned it off, but it very slowly started to catch my attention. Then the more I watched, the more I started to understand. This is a great movie. It will make you think.
The Aliens are well done, with great special effects. Excellent sound quality. Lots of action at the end.
Much more than just an Alien vs. Human sci-fi flick. This is a very emotional story that takes some patience to fully understand.
Looking back, its one of the best Ive seen. It will grow on you as you watch it. I will keep this as one of the movies you pull out every now and then to wach again.Read full review...

Great buy

Great buy, great movie, the actor in this is one of my favorites. Love this movie. The case and dvd/blueray were like new.

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Dist 9

Cannot really say because I have not watched yet; however, this crazy review would not delete off my E-bay page until I wrote 100 words or more about this GD Film that I have not even watched. personally, I feel this is Bull-**** and in order to remove this off my feedback page, I am forced to write "something" regarding this show I know nothing about...I suppose to be fair (although the idiots who are forcing me to write something were not), I feel I will give this show the benefit of the doubt and give an "average" score. Maybe in the next decade I will watch---That is when im not too busy making up BS feedback reviews.Read full review...