Not sure what everybody was raving about this movie for because it failed to impress me. It is almost as if they brought back apartheid in this film and the victims were the aliens. They are housed in shacks in Johannesburg and then must be relocated 200 kilometers away. If I had watched this in the Cinema I probably would have walked out. There is a lot of skop, skiet and donner here and people getting blown to bits, but still it ceased to amuse me.

The aliens are referred to as “Prawns” which also I feel was very tacky and should just have been dubbed straight forward “Aliens” instead.

“Wikus Van der Merwe” (Sharlto Copley), plays the leading role in the film where he works for the government and gets assigned the task of relocating the aliens. He then discovers a strange container in one of the shacks and is infected with an Alien liquid of some sort. Shortly after his arm mutates into an Alien one. The MNU takes him in and uses him to fire off the Alien weapons as the humans cannot use them, then manages to escape.

He finds the “Prawn” that may be able to help him change back to human. The “Prawn” promises that he will be able to help him in 3 years only… what the hell?

So if you must see it then fair enough, but not recommended. Some might even say that they were bored with it and you will probably sit there forwarding through bits of the movie just to get it over with.

PEVibe Score: 3/10

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