Official Movie Trailers

This is the official District 9 movie trailer starring Sharlton Copley, Jason Cope and Nathalie Boltt. District 9 is a futuristic Sci-fi movie depicting alien and human interactions in the most troubling circumstances. Click the picture to get the DVD.

The Plot:

An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology. The movie takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa where an alien ship has hovered for a long time without contact. When humans finally took initiative, they found several aliens struggling to survive. After rounding up the aliens and set them up in a camp called District 9, a couple of opposing groups attempt to figure out and take advantage of the alien's weapons technology to no avail. A kind soul, Wikus, from one of the group accidentally gets infected with a mysterious alien gadgetry that infects him and turns him slowly to an alien as well. After struggling to survive capture and experimentation by his own group, Wikus befriends an alien and enlists his help to return him back to his human form. Their deal went awry and they get caught in the 2 opposing groups attack.

The stars:

Sharlto Copley as Wikus Van De Merwe
Jason Cop as Grey Bradnam - UKNR Chief Correspondent
Nathalie Boltt as Sarah Livingstone - Sociologist
Sylvaine Strike as Dr Katrina McKenzie

Movie Critics Reviews:

Boston Globe (Ty Burr) -Like that film, "District 9" is a scrappy day-after-tomorrow epic; like it, too, it was made off the Hollywood grid, directed and co-written by the South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp and shot in Johannesburg and the New Zealand studios of producer Peter Jackson. It's an outsider blockbuster, a juicy, bravura piece of moviemaking pulp, and its hellacious style almost -- but not quite -- disguises its shortcomings as a story.

Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum) -The political resonance is sharp. But the movie wears its allegorical flourishes lightly. 
A thinking person's sci-fi movie from an inventive director of shorts and TV commercials, District 9 revels in the fun of mashing up
 narrative styles, with much of the footage presented as if shot by a documentary team on the scene. (Cloverfield made merry with the same vérité conceit.) The action — and there's plenty — really takes off when a big corporation (any resemblance to Halliburton is...your call) is hired to move the creatures from the slumlike township in which they have been segregated to something like a concentration camp, something meaner and farther away.