District 9
28
Days to DVD Release
December 22, 2009
- Synopsis
- Director Neill Blomkamp teams with producer Peter Jackson for this tale of extraterrestrial refugees stuck in contemporary South Africa. It's been 28 years since the aliens made first contact, but there was never any attack from the skies, nor any ......
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- Starring
- Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka
- Director(s)
- Neill Blomkamp
- Distributor(s)
- Sony
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 112 min.
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Every now and then, a film comes along that both defies and compels description. District 9 is one such movie: a science-fiction action vehicle so brilliantly and fully imagined that real life, when it resumes after the credits, arrives with a new sense of dread.Read the full review
District 9 is very smart sci-fi, but that's just the beginning; it's also a scathing social satire hidden inside a terrific action thriller teeming with gross aliens and regrettable inter-species conflict. And it's a blast. . . .Read the full review
A sci-fi-fueled indictment of man's inhumanity to man -- and the non-human -- District 9 is all horribly familiar, and transfixing.Read the full review
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