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District 9 [Blu-ray] | ![District 9 [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zUTvylIUL.jpg) | Director: Neill Blomkamp
Actors: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Sales Rank: 3002
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: COLBR29226
UPC: 043396292260
EAN: 0043396292260
ASIN: B002SJIO5E
Publication Date: December 1, 2009
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Product Description
Twenty-eight years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argue over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare - they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' awesome weaponry work.
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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. --Tom Keogh
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