Movie Review

Movie: District 9

Alien race lands on earth and is put into a type concentration camp. With nowhere to go with a broken spaceship, these aliens are left to themselves and seem to do all right and survive but cause problems for the locals.

The story starts as a kind of videotography of this man who was appointed to run the MNU, the multinational force keeping the aliens in check. After being at the District 9 camps for all those years, all of the 1.8 million aliens are going to be moved to a new "District 10" camp located 240 km from Johannesburg, with help from all the private security forces working for MNU.

Rated: PG-13 – for some violence including disturbing images, and for language

Genre: science fiction

Running Time: 112 min

Release Date: August 13, 2009

Director: Neill Blomkamp

Stars: Sharlto Copley, David James and Jason Cope