2009 - Rated R - 1 hr 52 min
Director: Neil Blomkamp
Starring: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope
Peter Jackson picked a good one to produce, that's for sure. This movie, if you haven't seen it, is one of the most original I've seen in a long time. It's a blended action/sci-fi/mockumentary and even has it's funny bits. As my sister kept saying, "Are you sure this isn't a comedy?"
A race of impoverished aliens inhabit a commune in Johannesburg. Mankind is prejudiced against them, wants to move them farther away from the city. Protestors and rights activists march outside. The government sends in a highly unprepared team to "evict" the aliens (or Prawns, the racial slur often used) and someone gets hurt. As he starts to turn into some weird half-man, half-Prawn creature, of course, the government wants to dissect him... alive. Now he has to team up with a Prawn to survive, and possibly help get the alien race back home.
Sounds good, right? Yup. This is one of the grossest movies I've ever seen... icky for its alien violence, mostly... but it's really well done. Even the aliens are creatively designed (different from your little green men with big heads) and expertly created onscreen.
I loved this movie in the theater and every time I watch it again.
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