District 9

I've kind of mixed feelings on this film. The first half an hour (ish) is filmed in a documentary style, similar to The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield. Now I hate this type of film, and I particularly hated it in District 9. In fact after I saw the style in the trailer I was kind of on the fence about whether or not I wanted to see the film. But one of my friends wanted to go and see it, so I went too.

After about half an hour the film just abandons the documentary style of film and switches to the normal style. Once it did this, I loved the film. But it was also when it switched style that the films story seemed to switch. It started out as basically being about racism, but when it switched it turned into a fugitive film, full of awesome guns and technology as well as exploding people.

But it wasn't just all about the exploding people or the guns because the story was great as well. The ending though I thought was a little disappointing as the film builds up and up and then delivers something else. I wouldn't say the ending was bad at all I just would have preferred it to have ended a different way, as the one it did end with kind of does the whole sequel set up.

They could definitely make a sequel, but in a way I kind of hope that they don't, because the film does work on it's own.

I still don't know whether I'm going to watch this film again, just because I really did dislike the beginning. I think the film didn't know what type of film it was, or what style it wanted to be shot in, because it's kind of all over the place when it comes to both. Blomkamp is definitely a good film maker, although unfortunately just not of the kind of film I love watching.