The first of three 9 movies (that I know of) to be released in 2009, this sci-fi thriller is unexpectedly deep. Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, it's unclear who the good guys are: the white humans or the aliens (I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be the mercenary Nigerian gangs), and as such, it deals with apartheid while using species instead of races to get the point across, complete with a racist epithet that the humans use for the aliens. In 2006 South African director Neill Blomkamp made a 6 minute short called Alive in Joburg, and then fleshed it out into District 9 with the producing help of New Zealander Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings series (2001-03), King Kong (2005)). This starts in documentary style, showing the aliens' mothership, the ghetto (district) to which they've been assigned, and background on the unlikely leading man, a doofus named Wikus (in the Afrikaans accent it sounds like FIK-us), played by Sharlto Copley, who had a different role in the short, as well as a producing credit. District 9 has a high body count and plenty of blood, some red and human, some black and alien. If you like science fiction and/or thrillers, and don't mind violence, then check it out.
Updating in 2015: this will definitely cause MPMS (motion-picture-motion-sickness) so those afflicted should not go to a revival on the big screen. Here's the running list of nausea-inducing movies for us sensitive souls.
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