ET go home – and take your twinkling cathedral of a mothership with
you. That's the unfortunate attitude of embattled homo sapiens in this
entertaining, technically superb if faintly unsatisfying futuristic
thriller from the first-time feature director Neill Blomkamp; the
producer is that Jedi master of creature features, Peter Jackson. The
DNA of action-sci-fi merges with a sleek exo-skeleton of satire to
create a smart dystopian movie, excitingly shot in a docu-realist style
with some stunningly real CGI work. It's a film in the tradition of
Planet of the Apes and Godzilla, with hints of serious pictures such as
Children of Men and the less serious Cloverfield. And despite all the
ultra-hi-tech sheen, the spirit of Ed Wood Jr lives cheerfully on in
some of the prosthetic work.
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