Review: District 9

Shot in a mockumentary style, District 9 is hardly subtle in drawing parallels between the treatment of the alien race that has recently arrived in Johannesburg and the history of South African Apartheid. In the film we follow protagonist Wikus Van De Merwe as he tries to coerce the Prawns into moving out of the slums and into the concentration camp-like tents of District 10, a mission which goes awry with horrible consequences for bumbling Wikus.

Billed as a thinking man's Sci-Fi against the likes of Transformers 2 and GI Joe this year, that's only really half the story as more than a few liberties have been taken with the script for entertainment purposes, the most notable of these is the question of in a supposed documentary film, how do you explain the entire middle section of the film featuring guns and CGI aplenty?!

However, District 9 is such fun these flaws never really bother you till after the film's conclusion and the film contains enough thrills and spills to make it one of the superior action films of they year - just not quite the classic some have made it out to be.