Helen put this on our Love film list. It gets good reviews but I was a bit sceptical. Peter Jackson is involved with the film, and he comes with a reputation for doing great films, Lord of the Rings, and the most recent King Kong. None of the actors in it were known to me so, in fact the main actor had never acted before, I was not sure how it would be. It came about when a film based on Halo (video game) fell through and Peter Jackson offered Neill Blomkamp 30 million to do what ever he wanted.
The story involves aliens that have come to earth and are stuck here, their mother ship is parked over Johannesburg, and the aliens are kept in a camp that looks like the shanty town of the apartheid era. It is told in the style of a documentary, interviews of people, interspersed with the actual story. The MNU (an arms company) is contracted to move the aliens from district 9 to a new camp outside the city, and the main character is the man on the ground in charge of the operation.
During the operation he gets splashed with an alien liquid and then things take a turn for the worse and the whole thing goes crazy. It is a fantastic film with lots of very well done CGI, and I would recommend watching it, which I give a very rare 5 stars to.