Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

With watching his movies after brilliant work District 9, the main question is what happened to Blomkamp??? Why his movies becoming crap time by time? Why he lost his great talent? This is so sad that director of District 9, making movies like Elysium and Chappie. I wish District 9 was his first and final movies forever.

The logic level and message are below Rambo XXIII. Oh i know there is no Rambo XXIII , guess why , the answer is they decide that they can not make a worse movie than District 9. OK some clues about movie , you find a bunch of alien but do not care about make any scientific survey , and let all these crowd to a poor 5.th world country boomers. No UN or Nasa or any other organization or country in the field. Ah by the time probably someone steal from the budget.

It is a movie with great potential. Unfortunately, I felt that too much effort was put on making it action-packed, rather than developing the characters and the story line. The worst thing is the action part itself is really not that convincing, and certainly filled with predictable cliché. The almost chaotic action scenes also significantly diluted the intensity of the plot.The strong point of the movie is really on the metaphorical level. The aliens are metaphor of refugees or lower class labour imported from another country. Depicted in a particularly vulgar manner, they are often viewed as such by the hosting populace. The film even pointed out that the aliens supposedly belong to lower class of their planet. They were stranded and the government did only the minimum to keep them alive, resulting their appalling state of being, which feeds back into the stereotype of them being vulgar and inferior, despite clear evidence that they came from a far more technological advanced civilisation. The superiority is really built upon the situational conditions and artificial construct of the society, yet the majority is too blind to see and cares too less change.The lead character works for an organisation that created and sustained the said sub-optimal treatment of the aliens; he himself showed very little goodwill in actually helping them. Yet in the end, he really relies on the goodwill of the alien to honour its promise and come back to convert him back to human. It would have been rather interesting if there was more bonding between the human and the alien main characters, but perhaps that was the whole point: when the roles exchange- and it can happen very quickly- there will be little chance to redeem the past. Indeed, when the lead alien character finally brought the whole army from another galaxy to rescue its fellow specie, human would be at their mercy.

A very rare sighting indeed - an innovative and original sci fi movie, that is well written, well directed and well acted. And this is it. Extremely original. Great plot, which constantly channels your thoughts in one direction, only to wrong-foot you. Good direction, from an unknown director. Graphics are great, which is a given for a modern movie, but here the graphics are more subtle and take a backseat to the storyline, unlike the Michael Bay/James Cameron school of in-your- face all-style-no-substance direction.Great, gritty, natural acting from a cast of unknowns. With The Hurt Locker probably the most under-hyped and (pre-release) under-rated movie of 2009.Even if you don't like sci fi, watch this.