An original
By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time," "Cinema Classics," and "On the Marquee"
To delight this critic with sci-fi, you need a heavy dose of allegory, jaw breaking production values, developing characters, ingenious plot, and eye-easing cinematography. The Peter Jackson produced District 9 pretty much has all these except for the last. If it weren't for the disorienting, jittery, hand-held cameras, the film would be an almost perfect modern sci fi.