District 9 (Bilingual) [Blu-ray]
Sharlto Copley (Actor), David James (Actor), Neill Blomkamp (Director, Writer)  Rated: Unrated  Format: Blu-ray
4.5 out of 5 stars    2,249 ratings
 
Product details
Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Parcel Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 90.72 Grams
Canadian Home Video Rating ‏ : ‎ Ages 14 and over
Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English
Director ‏ : ‎ Neill Blomkamp
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 52 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ Dec 22 2009
Actors ‏ : ‎ Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Hindi
Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Producers ‏ : ‎ Bill Block, Carolynne Cunningham, Elliot Ferwerda, Ken Kamins, Mark Brooke
Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Canada
Writers ‏ : ‎ Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
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Product Description
 
From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original sciencefiction thriller that "soars on the imagination of its creators" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed... only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.
 
A provocative science fiction drama, District 9 boasts an original story that gets a little lost in blow-'em-up mayhem. Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, District 9 begins as a mock documentary about the imminent eviction of extraterrestrials from a pathetic shantytown (called District 9). The creatures, it turns out, have been on Earth for years, having arrived sickly and starving. Initially received by humans with compassion and care, the aliens are now mired in blighted conditions typical of long-term refugee camps unwanted by a hostile, host society. With the creatures' care contracted out to a for-profit corporation, the shantytown has become a violent slum. The aliens sift through massive piles of junk while their minders secretly research weapons technology that arrived on the visitors' spacecraft. Against this backdrop is a more personal story about a bureaucrat named Wikus (Sharlto Copley) who is accidentally exposed to a DNA-altering substance. As he begins metamorphosing into one of the creatures, Wikus goes on the run from scientists who want to harvest his evolving, new parts and aliens who see him as a threat. When he pairs up with an extraterrestrial secretly planning an escape from Earth, however, what should be a fascinating relationship story becomes a series of firefights and explosions. Nuance is lost to numbing violence, and the more interesting potential of the film is obscured. Yet, for a while District 9 is a powerful movie with a unique tale to tell. Seamless special effects alone are worth seeing: the (often brutal) exchanges between alien and human are breathtaking.