District 9 4K 2009 Ultra HD 2160p

A monstrous UFO hovers over the city of Johannesburg (South Africa), from which a crowd of beetle aliens falls out on the head of the crazed aborigines, for technical reasons forced to make an emergency stop on Earth. The stop dragged on for twenty years. During this time, the aliens multiplied exponentially, turning the area allocated to them number 9 into a cross between the stalker Zone, Cherkizovsky market and Brazilian favelas. The authorities, with the help of one almighty corporation, decide to relocate the beetles to area 10, which looks more like a concentration camp.

District 9 4K Review
A UFO hovers over Johannesburg, a troubled South African metropolis reaping the poisonous fruits of apartheid and simply called Joburg by locals. In shape and size, the object resembles an oil refinery, crammed to capacity by guest workers - agile, unpleasant-looking aliens who look like the product of cross-pollination of rugby players dressed in shrimp suits and zombie scarabs. The beetles in distress were herded into a camp for displaced persons - "District No. 9", which, after twenty years of not at all peaceful coexistence with homosapiens of all skin colors, has degenerated into a cross between Cherkizon, the Gaza Strip and a stalker zone controlled by the Nigerian mafia.

The intrigue of the film, in fact, unfolds in full accordance with these analogies. On the one hand, the authorities are pulling towards District No. 9, dreaming of evicting all the aliens to District No. 10, a concentration camp surrounded by barbed wire. On the other hand, there are human rights defenders who have logically switched from human rights to the rights of bugs. On the third, the special services, which have fallen on their heads with a large piece of alien technology, but to no avail, because in human hands powerful devices stubbornly do not work. Between the aforementioned authorities, the main character rushes about in a kolobok - an official responsible for the mass eviction of beetles, but he himself mutates into a beetle under the influence of some nasty thing that the aliens have been collecting drop by drop in their garbage dump for twenty years in order to refuel in a UFO and fly back.

The first unconditional merit of the authors of "Region No. 9" was the long-overdue reboot of such a fairly amortized spectacle as "humanity's contact with extraterrestrial intelligence." For the last thirty years, this contact has been developing - with one or another variation - either according to the "good" Spielberg scheme of "Third Degree Contacts", or "evil" - "Aliens" Until Neill Blomkamp, ​​no one thought of presenting it as exhausting, ineffectual and, most importantly, a disappointing experience on both sides. Blomkamp's second merit was the triumph of historical justice, adequately presented in District 9, because behind the unpleasant refugee bugs who organized a new humanitarian catastrophe in South Africa are the very insects that were crushed by their boots as part of the operation to enforce peace by the Verhoeven Warships Warriors ".

As for the other achievements of this debut, they seemed to us rather modest. Unlike "Monstro" / Cloverfield / (2008), sustained in the youtube technique from the first frame to the last, "District 9" is a jumble of pseudo-reportage shots and clearly staged, which makes it difficult to take the unbelievability happening in the frame to heart. And this is for the fiction of a new formation, which is filmed for three rubles, that is, ridiculous thirty million dollars independent directors from big studios, horror is necessary. Peter Jackson, who produced District 9 out of his own pocket, just got the effect of belonging in his sci-fi debut, Bad Taste, where the alien's brain fell out of his head and his hand tucked it back in. Why it is impossible to sympathize with an official who has a claw instead of a hand is absolutely clear.
True, in the case of "District No. 9" this question has more to do with the reality in which we all live, and not with the fantasy that art is concerned with.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby Digital

Subtitles
English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Hindi.