Geoff Pado — Thoughts about Stuff

District 9 Spoiler-Free Mini Review!

The first half of District 9 is pretty good — a sci-fi mockumentary about aliens living in South African slums, and what happens to one person who gets a little too involved. Exactly what I expected.

The second half of District 9 sucks. It becomes an action movie — one man vs. a multinational military to save a random alien and his young offspring. Seriously.

These two halves combine to equal a pretty ‘meh’ movie overall. I have no desire to see it again, not even as a rental.