District 9

Within my expectation I held for the movie against the good reviews it got. A good movie if you can stand some of the graphical scenes and of course the aliens which appears during most of the time. The storyline did left a few unexplained items but doesn't really matters.

Movie is set in johannsburg where 20 years back an alien spaceship landed there. It didn't have any invasion intention so the government decided to break into the spaceship and to their horror, millions of aliens were found which seems clueless and unhealthy. They were brought down and held in a large area called district 9. Soon it became a slum and a group of nigerian mobster managed to sustain illegal activities with the aliens. Selling them food like pigs, cows and cat food, the alien's favourite.

As years goes by. the prawn like aliens causes some distress among the citizens. So the government engaged MNU, some private group to relocate these 1.8 millions aliens. Funny thing is the team even needs to let the alien sign some eviction form as somehow that is the legal thing to do. The MNU head gave the lead job to his son-in-law, Wikus which he thought initially it was like a promotion but in such movies, this never happen. It was heaven to hell for him. MNU has been collecting the weapons these aliens were using, though having superior technology and power, it cannot be used by a human, seemingly created with biological elements.

It was Day 1 of the operation as Wikus lead a team to get the aliens sign the forms. MNU also has military teams at his disposal, Colonel Kobus is the man leading them. From the moment he appeared, destined he will die a horrible death. As Wikus go to hut by hut, you get to see all the graphical details of the aliens. Till he went to Christopher Johnson, yes the aliens all got names and also somehow understand english and more amazing, their gibberish, the humans also understand. He was collecting soem liquid and doing some experiment. Wikus accidentally spill it onto his face.

To protect the experiment, CJ's friend was killed while Wikus injured his hand. The work stopped and wikus went back and rest, then it started. He started to feel sick and nails fell off. Upon reaching home, he got a surprise party celebrating his promotion but he fainted. He was send to hospital, this moment started his hell experience. As the doctor unbandaged his hand, to their utmost shock, it revealed a claw hand, the mutated infestation started. He was taken away by MNU immediately and they stabilized his condition then used him for experiment which is test the weapons. Wikus was the only combined human and alien, tested he can fire those alien weapons.

That is not all, they wanted to disembered him to gather more information for this human/alien combination. He managed to escape and embarked his journey to recover his human form. MNU hunted him and sited him having illegal inter-species sex and was highly contagious. He couldn't see his wife and initially didn't believe him. He became hopeless and had to eat cat food. Till he found CJ again and found out that he had a way to recover him but it needed the black liquid which is in MNU.


He went from "charging into MNU to get the liquid" to "betraying CJ" then to "sacrifice to saving the aliens". How the nigerian mobster and Kubus died was quite a scene. 8/10