Firstly a few warnings...
This movie also not for the squeamish.
And more for sci-fi fans.
This is one of the best sci-fi movies I have seen in AGES.
A fascintaing story-telling style and structure, which moves from doco style (a la Orson Welles's War of the Worlds) into adventure movie and back again.
Elements of WotW, Invasion of the Body-snatchers, Alien, Terminator, Independence Day - but much more chilling in that it shows us want strange creatures humans are...
AND set in Johannesburg, of all places!
With a guy who begins the movie very much as a reincarnation of Murray from Flight of the Conchords, and ends it in wuite a different way (I promise I won't spoil it!).
I am sorry, I can't remember the name of the director, except that it was Neill someone...
And the principle actor's name (a downside of viewing new movies on Chemo Day).
But the messages are quite stunning...this is a total reversal of your mainstream alien invasion movie (no spoilers, tho!)...
I am still tossing up whether one of the creepiest scenes is where Wikus van der Merwe (main character) blows out the candles on his cake, or the hospital scene that follows...
Highly memorable movie (just not the actor or director's names!!!).
Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens produced this...the splatter movie influence is still there in Jackson's movies (how WILL the Hobbit turn out?????).
I sense a pathway for a sequel too...
Thoroughly recommended, but with the above cautions.
Not one for the movie snugglers amongst us!
G.
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