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I found the colors washed out, except for a few scenes where they were very rich.

YAKYAK REVIEW MOVIE

This movie used slow motion too often, most of the time to show us some camera effects for the sake of camera effects. Bah! The use of slow motion, while it can be effective, does not make a movie an Asian epic, nor does it move the movie along smartly. Hey, I've got no problem with people being able to stand on a tiny tree limb without falling, and leap from said tiny limb and fly through the air in a horizontal line, but if they rotate just a wee bit in the wrong direction, and land on the ground awkwardly as though they were, say, suspended from a wire, then the illusion is shattered, their hard work is worthless, and my head is slowly shaking back and forth. These directors can't seem to ever get it right. My biggest gripe about these sorts of films: stupid wire work. But if they can't control the rotation of their body (whilst being lighter than air, recall) and land on the ground like an Olympic gold medalist, then they'd better not show up on my movie screen. I can accept a world where people can become lighter than air and launch objects with impossible accuracy ('impossible' due to uncontrollable variations such as, say, air turbulence). I can suspend reality, I can easily accept an alternate reality as long as it's consistent.

Instead, I got a mediocre movie that tries really really really hard to fulfill Hollywood's rule of followup films: whatever people liked about the first film, give 'em three times as much in the second film. I was expecting fantastically colored visuals, exceptional acts of acrobatic fighting, a *few* cheesy physics-defying stunts, and a plot worth caring about.

Thank you, everyone who contributed to District 9. I want that sequel to be a continuation of the story, with the same high calibre acting, attention to script quality (that's so important), and not blown way out of proportion and made horrid like sequels normally are. This movie is intelligent, and I beg for a sequel. Certainly some of the film is believable with the hand-held quality but many parts make that really inappropriate and distracting. The shaky camera effect was used in places I felt it unjustified. My biggest problem is with the camera work. The foibles are sufficiently minor and the movie keeps moving forward. That won't matter to you though because you'll be so intrigued with having a cinematic experience that treats you like a thinking person that you won't even bother to think about HOW the logic is incomplete or how the action should have been done. There are moments when plot or scene logic doesn't hold up to serious scrutiny, and while the action is well-done, it does have a few of those 'why doesn't he just.' moments. Thankfully though, they did not follow any formula closely. This extra quality offsets the typical action, and more than makes up for some of the slightly more clichéd elements within the show. The character-driven nature of this film is one of its best characteristics, and as a rare treat for an action movie I was able to emotionally invest in the fate of the lead characters. It didn't lock itself into a hero-movie path. The director must have done a fabulous job because I really couldn't predict the events of the movie. The plot is fairly well thought through and each scene follows from the last. 25 August 2009 - 3 out of 6 users found this review helpful.Īs the summary suggests, this movie features a solid premise, very able acting, and a sensible script.

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