Well done my friend, well done. I couldn't have said it any better myself. I hope to see more text reviews from you soon, Film Brain.

good to see your kissing ass just for the first post your genericness is truely remarkable

I would like to thank you film brain... alot.

You are a breath of fresh air compared to movie reviewers, You speak about what you really think and go amazingly indepth to the movie. But most importantly you write like a real person, as if it were a conversation between one and other.

I would recomend you check out Neil Blomkamp's "Alive in Joburg" a short movie he made which was the ground works for district 9
you can watch it on YouTube, Also check out his other short movie "Yellow" which looks like for sure it will be his next feture lenght epic.

Good morning, Good evning and Good night, or what ever other time frame you might be in.

I thought the film was good, but it seemed to me that they should have gone one way or the other with it, documentary or traditional Hollywood storytelling. The constant chopping and changing between the two made it seem a bit slipshod. Could have done with less shaky-cam too.

In most other ways it was pretty good though, and this was a solid write-up.

I heard a lot of people complain about the documentary style of the first 15 minutes, but I think it just adds to the film.

It's really there to get the viewer acquainted with 20 or so years of history in the movie's universe within a very short amount of time. For that, I really have to respect how well they accomplished that.

But yeah, great review for a great film.

I liked G.I. Joe and Transformers when I was a child but I stopped caring about them when I grew up and now they are grossing hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office as hollow shells little more real than they toys they are designed to sell.

I know District 9 is not the most original film ever made but it is certainly the most original film to come to theaters this summer.

I hope it makes enough at the box office to pay for Blomkamp's next film.

Yeah, awesome, I'm glad you didn't just fall down and worship this movie like some have, but didn't go the opposite route and say it was a piece of overrated poo, because it's not that at all either.

It's good, aaaaaaalmost great, and had some big hiccups. Amazing how most peeps can't come to that conclusion instead of ALWAYS saying it's either amazing or it's crap. Actually, that response in itself is usually a mark of quality in some way...

Oh dear, I wonder what Chester A. Bum would say to reading this...

Excellent review, FB. I definitely agree with the authentic feeling this movie has, especially when you bring the Nigerian gangsters into the picture. I wasn't annoyed by the protracted ending as much as you were, since it was incredibly well-shot action and I definitely cannot say no to that. Also, because it did have its pockets where very little was going on, and those pockets did give me (at least) an opportunity to catch my breath at those points.

I'm surprised you didn't bring District 9's budget onto the plate, though; supposedy this movie only had a budget of 30 million dollars or some small amount like that. I think that makes D9's CGI that much more incredible, especially since larger-budget movies have tended to have less consistently amazing CGI as of late.

Overall, excellent review. Good to see you took the intelligent approach instead of the approach that detractors and fans have taken for this movie.

As for Blomkamp's latest projects? I'm definitely keeping tabs on him. Jackson definitely knew what he was doing when he produced this movie, I can tell you that much.

Good review Film Brain, and a comment on the Special effects, yeah, they were great, but that's Weta for yeah.

That's the thing about Weta, there are able to make great visual effects for very little money (Return of the King was made on under $100 million). It's incredible.

It seems like lately there is only one movie a year that come out that really puts me at the edge of my seat. This year was district 9. Anyone who bitches about it needs only to look at what other crap hollywood has produced.

Great review film brain.

Great review. Well balanced and in-depth. I went to see this with some friends yesterday, and it is one of those films you can talk about for ages.

I found it to be a very enjoyable film, although I felt that the second half was dragged out in places. I'm also still not entirely sure what I think of the ending.

I highly recommend that people see this film though; being almost a beacon of light in the swarm of piss-poor films this summer.

This movie is so awesome.
Its got moments that made me wanna cry and the music is so different from the African music you usually hear.

This movie is a philosophical masterpiece.

you, just like james rolf in his video reviews, go about it nice and casually, and voice your opinion, without worrying about jokes or effects. But, unlike james rofl, (The angry video game nerd) Also do it in a somewhat professional way, as well.

i wounder if you'd do a few retro films, like 'Assualt on precint 13' Which was a john carpenter film, made in 1976, with a buget of only 100,000 dollers. wow...... and it had one hell of a soundtrack.

i thank you for being, yet another person to inspire me to write scripts.....for a dream of filmaking i should really stop blabbing about.'

Good review, and I agree wholeheartedly. I love the fact that this film was made for a much lower budget than some of the other crap we've gotten this year.

GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER!

Well its good to know that there are sensible people on this site. Some other nameless reviewers seem to have lost the ability to know what they are talking about...

This movie is way overrated. The visual and most of direction and acting are awesome, true.

But the plotholes and concept conflicts are so HUGE that they spoil the whole movie imo.

Some events in this shinny blinky rubbish don't make sense whatsoever... i d say am disapointed, they were so close of releasing a masterpiece...

I think D9 deserve a BMB review instead... srsly.

Fanboys should watch it again and be aware of what's going on... which might result in "uh? wut?"

bah, it was entertaining but not as smart as it pretends to be!

If you really think this movie is fit for BMB reviewing, then I suggest you take a good long look at the movies I reviewed on that show. You yourself called it "entertaining" - that is certainly not a BMB.

Like that's stopped you from doing BMB on entertaining movies before.

But not ones I enjoyed.

Indeed, i ve been a bit extreme LOL cause D9 is much a worth watch.

i meant, i have been very impressed the first time i got to watch it, but have been annoyed by a lot of non-sens that occured in the script.

So i went a second time and just concurred that writting was not that great finally...

But yeah, Weta deserves definitelly awards for their smooth job.

Help me god, the world has come to an end, I agree with film brain. I liked this movie.

I saw the movie yesterday and it was turely amazing for me. The setting was so new to me that the movie often really got unpredictable. Especially at the first half.

It's not a must see, because I don't think that it's not the cup of tea for many audiences, but everyone who saw the trailer and likes it should watch it for sure.

Ah so someone who actually enjoyed the movie. Sadly enough it seems to be that a not many people take this as "their cup of tea" 3/8 people who I told to go see it actually liked the movie. keyword being "liked" and only 1 who would like to have seen it again. People say that there are many plot holes but the same can be said of the Transformers movies and yet I ignore them and just take what is being shown to me. So Film Brain I am glad that your review has a lot of supporting facts and facts to support why you didn't like it. Its the way to go. Continue the good job.

A reviewer who can appreciate the movie for what it is. Glad to see a reviewer on this site who can say this movie is good. Seriously, a movie where people explode and a giant machine shoots a pig at a soldier. What are they expecting, Citizen Kane? This ain't no citizen Kane, it's more like Transformers, Total Recall, and other popcorn flicks, only with more heart and more of a message. I went into the movie thinking this would be a glorified political immigration discussion with some action to thinly veil it. Luckily, the message wasn't as in you face as I expected, and that was for the better.