District 9 Reviews
TheShiznit.co.uk
Smart, funny, touching, thought-provoking and utterly insane in the action department, District 9 is 2009's most entertaining movie by a light year.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Movie Metropolis
Despite its shortcomings, District 9 is an engaging sci-fi romp that features solid CGI work.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Top Critic
American Profile
A rocking, rolling action drama about alien castaways that just want to go home, an evil corporation that wants to capitalize on them at any cost, and one man who freakishly gets caught in the middle.
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| Original Score: 4/5
East Bay Express
District 9 has the potential to satisfy two mutually exclusive groups of bottom-feeding moviegoers.
ComingSoon.net
District 9 isn't without its rough edges. It's a bit obvious and doesn't take as full advantage of its premise as it could. But it's also a visually spectacular and cares mostly about its characters, and that's a rare thing in film today.
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| Original Score: 8/10
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Part alien invasion flick, part social commentary, Neill Blomkamp's chilling, thrilling District 9 is a wholly original work. And it features a star-making turn from Sharlto Copley.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
sbs.com.au
Aliens clash with humans in combustible sci-fier.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Quickflix
Although the film is dripping in satire, Blomkamp is more concerned with delivering a balls-to-the-wall action film. District 9 has more in common with Aliens than Babel.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Suite101.com
The most audacious, auspicious sci-fi debut in years, Neill Blomkamp's modest-budget "District 9" throws together xenophobic satire, political allegory and raucous action in a knockabout package reminiscent of Paul Verhoeven's finest work.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Cinema Autopsy
District 9 is the most original, innovative and entertaining science-fiction film in years and contains the best mix of politics and spectacle since Starship Troopers.
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| Original Score: 4/5
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Best when it operates as yarn rather than as social commentary, even if it is filled with logical inconsistencies.
Projection Booth
Screw Avatar - this is what people will think of when they talk about science fiction at the end of the aughts.
JWR
While the ambitious narrative bites off far more than can be satisfactorily chewed and digested, the fantastic ride through what must be a completely fictional world (right?) is worth a view.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Bangitout.com
While Blomkamp's disturbing thriller does have a semi-revelatory ending, the real secret is that District 9, for all its pomp and circumstance, is no more than a decent but scrappy science fiction flick.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Examiner.com
The disconnect between the first and second half of the movie shows you how great District 9 could have been, if Jackson and his financial backers had allowed it, instead of what it is, exciting, but with nothing lingering in the mind after it was over.
Cinema Sight
Science fiction as it was meant to be: intelligent and challenging.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movies for the Masses
full review at Movies for the Masses
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| Original Score: 4/5
Window to the Movies
Since the metaphor itself is pretty clear, Blomkamp goes for the visceral quality of the images and situations.
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| Original Score: 7/10
