Tone, Script & Story: The aliens have inhabited an area on Earth creating slums. The area is known as district 9. Humans have appointed a team which would help them shift Aliens to new area district 9. The story also highlight's an officer which has turned alien, after getting exposed to their technology. Will he turn human again? What will it take? The above two questions along with the love life of alien turned human set a bar in entertainment that's not easy to break.Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography: I usually don't go praising CGI maybe because I don't find worth it, but here in this movie I praise it, it was good.Final Verdict: In the run, we get on a roller coaster that's full of entertainment. You cannot afford to miss this if you are a sci-fi fan!

Out of many films about extraterrestrial species that I've watched arguably District 9 is the best. Out of many reasons as to why I would regard it as that ; the most important is the fact that the Aliens are depicted in a much wider scope and with a lot of personality in this film. Specially, the lead Alien character Christopher along with the leading performance by Sharlto Copley as Wikus carries this wonderful story on their shoulders and executes the plot to perfection. This film is also about how malignant human beings can be to our own species where they don't blink to betray our own at the face of financial benefits which are sunk deep in technological advancements. Certain characters in this film almost make us feel how far our basic human values would deplete for the greed of power and money in this technologically advancing World. Colonel Koobus and Piet Smit are those worst strains of humanity. The film maintains an emotional grip throughout the film which would keep you totally invested in its plot unfolding. Specially, Wikus whose wonderful character arch with his own insecurities make him feel compassionate about the Aliens which in turn would make us feel compassionate about him. Anyone who is a fan of science fiction films wouldn't wanna miss this one equipped with fantastic visual effects, action sequences, and masterfully layered emotional grip which keeps you invested from start to finish.

I personally loved this movie. Instead of the generic alien attack portrayed by most sci-fi movies, this one gives a more realistic approach if an alien race came to earth with no place to live and nothing to eat. It's really interesting to see them semi-integrated in society, and how the humans treat them. I felt really bad for the Prawns after watching the movie because they were discriminated and treated really realistically. I also enjoyed the action and creative weaponry and technology.

War of the Worlds (2005) and the Transformers franchise are in my top favorite films, so adding this little combo to create this film, I did have high expectations going in. Those expectations were satisfied! Many of my friends thought this wouldn't work, some did based on the trailer. I avoided this trailer at all costs, even changing channels when the trailer came on TV. So going in blind, I was pleasantly surprised! This is a well executed and directed script with amazing cinematography and VFX. It's a winner from me and a well deserved 9/10!