District Nine, Neill Blomkamp

An alien invasion with a twist: over a million starving aliens are rescued from their mothership and placed in a Johannesburg, South Africa, refuge camp, District 9. Twenty years later, their numbers having doubled and their ship continuing to hover over the city, the ominous MNU (MultiNational Unit) is charged with transferring them further from the city to District 10. The bumbling son-in-law of MNU's CEO--Wikus Van De Merwe (played by Sharlto Copley)--is put in charge. While rounding up aliens, he accidentally infects himself with a potent fluid with two important properties: besides allowing the lost command module to return to the mothership, it also infects Van De Merwe and gradually transforms him into an alien.  The ensuing chase and battle scenes center on who gets ahold of the fluid.  

Tonally, the film takes a bit getting used to.  Wikus is a South African Inspector Clouseau, and his human enemies are flat projections of evil.  The film incorporates elements of a documentary--sociologists, scientists, and family speculating on Van De Merwe's behavior, plus footage from surveillance cameras.  And though the humans and aliens can understand each other (but not speak the other's language), there is no backstory, or even a gesture towards a backstory, that is, not even the sociologists claims that she's been spending the past 20 years trying to learn as much as possible about the alien race.  Obviously, we're to understand that the humans have absolutely no interest in the aliens except as a source for a new level of weaponry.  

As an allegory on apartheid, it's a bit confused.

Recommend.