directed by: Neill Blomkamp
written by: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
starring: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope
seen: 3rd October, 2009 - comment: 18th August, 2017
Hmm, since seing this film for the first time back in 2009 my perspective really did change. I was suspicious it could. The telling cluess were hidden in the original comment: not only it contained misspelled words on purpose, it also had phrases like "a promising topic butchered", "absolutely unconvincing", "why is a docu-approach ended with a giant shoot-out" and "no, simply no". Today I only need to take one look at a prawn dad loving his prawn son and my stone cold heart melts and I am capable of a critical thought about the film's theme and its means of turning it into a viable story.
It's still kind of too loud, shouty and explosy to really touch me in my heart, but who am I to criticise someone's postmodern cross-breeding of genres and giant shoot-outs when it leadst to an objectively assessable film goodness, perhaps even clever and cleverly done? A big change also manifests itself in me now finding Sharlto Copley adorable enought for respecting him as the main hero. Although I wouldn't mind for his character to show some more development sooner that at the last possible moment.
In conclusion, I am sorry for being prejudiced when I saw this earlier, and if you kids ever get the sequel made, don't let it be rubbish.
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