I
loved
District 9!
It's a great film. Go see it. Uh, you know, if you can. There is a TON of shaky cam. But I must admit (me sitting against the wall below the projector window) it didn't bother me too much. In fact, as I was saying before I really liked it. If it didn't have it, the movie wouldn't have been as good, imho. I felt the same way about
Cloverfield. The documentary feel of this movie sells it.
A couple of times I talked about grit in a movie that makes it believable, this one is has a lot of it. Casting unknown actors was also a huge plus.
One review said it had you riveted from the very beginning to the end, I would have to agree totally.
It didn't ever get cheesy either. At least not to me. As soon as it started heading there, Blomkamp cuts away from the scene. Nicely done.
The movie gets props for terrific use of editing, visual effects (they knew that the mother ship did not need to be in focus and properly lit 100% of the time) and sound effects (I've seen thousands of films and I actually thought someone was talking in the theater, realizing that it was Copley's voice).
It did take me awhile to get into the groove with the prawns. At first, the seemed comical and out of place. But that quickly changed for me.
Some of it was reminiscent of
Aliens for me, but all in all I loved it.