I also saw this movie, which I LOVED. You'd think that after 100 years of alien movies they'd have run out of ideas, but District 9 was fresh and different and had a great story, and as a bonus, the coolest weapons of any movie I've ever seen. I like alien movies that 1) aren't just mindless action and 2) encompass a broader story, in this case the aliens are used as a sort of social metaphor for the treatment by Apartheid of the various Bantu peoples - the slums, the hatred and revulsion, and as pointed out by one observant reviewer, even the "clicks" in the language.
The movie is in the mockumentary style and I think it really works here. The special effects, of which there are many, just effortlessly proceed, many times almost thrown away in the background as the camera jostles around and refocuses. That brings realism, typically you don't defocus and smudge all that expensive effects work. Of course the aliens are digitally generated but I've not seen a movie integrate digital creatures with reality so realistically before.
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