district 9? Looks good from previews.. anyone hear anything bad about it?

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I'm not so great at giving movie reviews so please skip if you are worried about SPOILERS!

Synopsis from District 9 site:

Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth.

Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them.

Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare - they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA.

The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide:
District 9.

I watched District 9 last night, going in without much more prior knowledge than it was about refugee aliens in South Africa shot in the style of a documentary with some allusions to apartheid South Africa.

Within the first few minutes, satire came to mind, as I found it very difficult to watch a plot based on the idea of a refugee camp, themes of segregation and assimilation, and an ongoing effort to acquire the most powerful weaponry without also thinking about human histroy and current world issues. The protagonist Wikus particularly emphasizes your typical member of the majority, playing the role of the patsy who wholeheartedly buys into his corporation's philosophy until faced with some ethical dilemnas that personally affect him. However, I'm not sure all movie-goers will see District 9 as more than a science fiction mockumentary.

The film uses the form of documentary well, with jabs at the way media reports or cloaks catastrophes, by providing opposing expert opinions, and by revealing the ignorance and "speciism" of the citizens through street interviews. Special effects are, without surprise, well executed, with some gore-rrific scenes as alien weaponry is employed.

I found the story itself to have some huge gaps, though. With a movie that features a corporation trying to figure out alien weaponry, they gloss over the technology for pretty much the entire movie and don't address very much of the research. In other words, it all seems rather hollow and the audience is expected to accept the storyline. The ethical dilemnas are equally simplified, so that the question of who's more human: human or alien is settled rather unrealistically.

All I know is I really want to see this flic.....it looks cool.