District 9 was all I hoped it would be and more. There have been a few comments about the holes in the plot, but who cares when you are watching such an original, clever and fun movie. A cast of newcomers always seems to help this type of film, and adequate as they are, it was all about the direction. The humour is always black, exactly as it should be, and the second half "man in peril" works in a highly novel way. I'm sure we shall hear a lot more of writer/director Neill Blomkamp.
They must have worked really hard on Bruce Willis to make him look forty years younger in Surrogates. All the other surrogates look equally young, good looking but sterile, typified by his wife played by Rosamund Pike. The only one who looks half human is Radha Mitchell who is always worth the admission alone. When the "real" Bruce Willis ventures out on his own, it is fun to watch his grizzled, ageing body being transported into DieHard territory. The movie? I thought it was entertaining and a good high tech thriller.
Reading the reviews of Pandorum, I thought there would be a cast of just two as Dennis Quaid (another actor worth the admission) and Ben Foster wake up on their spacecraft. How wrong I was. Elements from every movie ever made about a disaster in space have been shoehorned into this scifi thriller. Dark and noisy with very little plot, waking up after so may years with just an hour left to save the reactor seems just a little too far fetched, even for me.
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