Finally got to see one of the two movies I’ve been dying to see. The other being Inglorious Basterds, which I’ll get to next week.

I, like most others, didn’t know squat of District 9 before it was out and heavily reviewed. As usual, I only take a look at Rotten Tomatoes scores, but try to steer clear of all actual reviews because I like my movies to surprise me. Going in, all I knew was that there were aliens involved.

While not quite as great as I was led to believe it’d be, it’s still a very worthy film and worth a watch. Decent story, good direction, but a bit too much blood splatter and flying meat. Yes, meat… Flying. At a point I began to laugh because it was getting so ridiculous, but Geordie, not as keen on gratuitous… I don’t know the word… (he doesn’t like things being too over the top) was not a fan. He still thought it was a good movie, but you know, that they overdid the flying meat and body explosions.

Unfortunately, I picked a major hole in the plot this morning. If you’d like to know it, highlight the following text. It is very much full of spoiler.

If Christopher Johnson knew how to fly the mothership, and it wasn’t broken in any way, why were all the aliens stranded there and dying before the humans opened it up and rescued them? Was it that tiny bit of “juice” that they needed to power both the dropship and then the mothership? I don’t know much about alien technology, but that doesn’t seem to make too much sense.

I eagerly anticipate District 10. What do you think? Three years?

This is definitely one to rent, but I’ll go so far as to say it’s worth the price of admission at a theater. Get your medium popcorn, and enjoy.

Grade: A-