District 9 (2009) Review: A Sci-Fi Movie That Feels Uncomfortably Real
District 9 (2009) movie poster. Source: Sony Pictures Releasing. Used for review and commentary purposes. District 9 takes a familiar science-fiction idea—aliens arriving on Earth—and turns it into something much more uncomfortable, realistic, and surprisingly human. What happens when visitors from another world arrive on Earth, but instead of being welcomed or feared as conquerors, they become unwanted outsiders? Neill Blomkamp's District 9 (2009) begins with a huge alien spacecraft hanging silently above Johannesburg, South Africa. That image sounds like the beginning of a traditional alien invasion movie, but this film quickly goes in a very different direction. The aliens are not powerful ...