Movie Review: District 9

   I saw the movie District 9 this Saturday, and I rather loved it.

   It had a fair amount of action, excitement and huge cool guns, yet still had an interesting plot that made you think. I loved that it was an action movie with a main character who is a total dork (in the adorable way). Often times when movies try to portray someone as being a "dork" they go way overboard and make them a cartoonish nerd with a pocket protector. In this case however they did a really good job of making him a bit socially awkward without being cheesy about it.

   And of course you know I love movies/stories that explore the inherent inhumanity of mankind.

   Sure there were a few plot holes, but all around I liked the movie enough that I'm going to completely overlook them.

   I think the biggest criticism I have (which you'll notice is pretty insignificant) is that they chose to call the body that is basically the UN the "Multi National Union" or something. Is there really a legal problem using "UN" in movies? If not something closer to the name, "Federation of Nations" would have been better (in that FN looks more like UN than MNU does).

( One barely a spoiler, probably won't even make sense if you haven't seen the movie )

   In conclusion, I give this movie a solid A