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Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction classic.
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The wonder is that despite its obvious roots, District 9 feels staggeringly original. Jun 17, 2015 | Full Review…
The wonder is that despite its obvious roots, District 9 feels staggeringly original.
Jeannette Catsoulis
It's a brashly confident debut, full of sharp, inventive detail (the prawns are crazy for cat food) and rooted in a couple of Big Ideas. Well worth the time, if not all of it. Aug 25, 2014 | Full Review…
It's a brashly confident debut, full of sharp, inventive detail (the prawns are crazy for cat food) and rooted in a couple of Big Ideas. Well worth the time, if not all of it.
Tom Charity
District 9 has too many gory vaporizations to qualify as a serious statement on race relations, but it does outclank Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen by a wide margin, and you thrill to the cleanly cut action sequences. Nov 17, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
District 9 has too many gory vaporizations to qualify as a serious statement on race relations, but it does outclank Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen by a wide margin, and you thrill to the cleanly cut action sequences.
Joshua Rothkopf
What the sci-fi action flick District 9 lacks in famous faces it makes up for with sheer imagination. Jul 6, 2010 | Full Review…
What the sci-fi action flick District 9 lacks in famous faces it makes up for with sheer imagination.
Rafer Guzman
You don't feel bamboozled, fooled, or patronized by District 9, as you did by most of the summer blockbusters. You feel winded, shaken, and shamed. Sep 7, 2009 | Full Review…
You don't feel bamboozled, fooled, or patronized by District 9, as you did by most of the summer blockbusters. You feel winded, shaken, and shamed.
Anthony Lane
Perhaps we're witnessing a new dawn for politically engaged sci-fi and horror, with Blomkamp as a latter-day George Romero. Either way, this is a stunningly impressive debut. Sep 4, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Perhaps we're witnessing a new dawn for politically engaged sci-fi and horror, with Blomkamp as a latter-day George Romero. Either way, this is a stunningly impressive debut.
Tom Huddlestone
Copley is never a believable protagonist, and his transformation isn't very believable. About the only interesting cast members are the CGI aliens. May 15, 2019 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Copley is never a believable protagonist, and his transformation isn't very believable. About the only interesting cast members are the CGI aliens.
Micheal Compton
If someone asked me what I could offer them to convey the "mission statement" of science fiction, I would hand over a copy of District 9 without thought. Jan 14, 2019 | Full Review…
If someone asked me what I could offer them to convey the "mission statement" of science fiction, I would hand over a copy of District 9 without thought.
Emily Asher-Perrin
Part found footage (or just footage), part mockumentary, part satire and part action; Blomkamp pulls it into a coherent, moving, violent, sci fi allegory. Copley is terrific as Wikus moving from species-ist opportunist to a genuine if gormless redemption. Dec 16, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Part found footage (or just footage), part mockumentary, part satire and part action; Blomkamp pulls it into a coherent, moving, violent, sci fi allegory. Copley is terrific as Wikus moving from species-ist opportunist to a genuine if gormless redemption.
Sarah Cartland
I won't tell you to rush out and see it, but in these days of sequels and remakes, this was an interesting original. Nov 13, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
I won't tell you to rush out and see it, but in these days of sequels and remakes, this was an interesting original.
Debbie Baldwin
There are lots of great odd details filling the early scenes, suggesting we're not getting all the cultural references, that make for exciting film-watching. Oct 25, 2018 | Full Review…
There are lots of great odd details filling the early scenes, suggesting we're not getting all the cultural references, that make for exciting film-watching.
Eileen Jones
The only thing saving the story is an astonishingly impressive performance from Copley. His every incarnation as Wikus-first as a cheerful, if incompetent suit, then as a pathetic xenophobe, to finally a self-sacrificing warrior-rings true. Oct 9, 2018 | Full Review…
The only thing saving the story is an astonishingly impressive performance from Copley. His every incarnation as Wikus-first as a cheerful, if incompetent suit, then as a pathetic xenophobe, to finally a self-sacrificing warrior-rings true.
Megan Basham
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