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Daybreakers (2009)

Daybreakers

Director:
Michael Spierig
Peter Spierig

Written by:
Michael Spierig
Peter Spierig

Tagline:
Vampires are not minority anymore…

Plot:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.

Runtime: 98 min


Categories: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

   

Avatar (2009)

AvatarDirector: James Cameron

Written by:
James Cameron

Tagline:
An epic battle for the fate of Pandora at hand…

Plot:
When his brother is killed in battle, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand – and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.

Runtime: 162 min

Award: Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 9 nominations

   

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

G.I. Joe-The Rise of CobraDirector:Stephen Sommers

Written by:
Stuart Beattie & David Elliot & Paul Lovett(screenplay)
Michael Gordon & Stuart Beattie & Stephen Sommers (story)

Tagline:
When All Else Fails, They Don’t

Plot:
The film opens in France, in 1641. The Scotsman Klan McCullen has been accused of selling weaponry to both the Scots and French. Rather than being executed for treason, the jury brands his face with a white-hot mask in order to humiliate him. In the near future, weapons expert James McCullen has created a nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His company MARS sells four warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke and Ripcord are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the Baroness, who Duke recognized to be his ex-fiancee Ana Lewis. Duke and Ripcord are rescued by Scarlett, Snake Eyes and Heavy Duty. They take the warheads to The Pit, G.I. Joe’s command center in North Africa, and upon arriving rendezvous with General Hawk, the head of the G.I. Joe Team. Hawk takes command of the war-heads and excuses Duke and Ripcord, only to be convinced to have them join his group after Duke reveals that he knows the Baroness.

Runtime: 118 min

Categories: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

   

Pandorum (2009)

PandorumDirector: Christian Alvart

Written by:
Travis Milloy (screenplay & story)
Christian Alvart (story)

Tagline:
Don’t fear the end of the world. Fear what happens next.

Plot:
Two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly – and horrifically – realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission?

Runtime: 108 min

Categories: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

   

9 (2009)

9Director: Shane Acker

Written by:
Pamela Pettler (screenplay)
Shane Acker (story)

Plot:
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they’ll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them.

Runtime: 79 min

   

Gamer (2009)

GamerDirector: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

Written by:
Mark Neveldine
Brian Taylor

Tagline:
In the near future, you don’t live to play… you’ll play to live.

Plot:
Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called “Slayers” looks to regain his independence while taking down the game’s mastermind (Hall).

Runtime: 93 min

Awards: 1 win

Categories: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

   

Surrogates (2009)

SurrogatesDirector: Jonathan Mostow

Written by:
Michael Ferris
John D. Brancato

Tagline:
How do you save humanity when the only thing that’s real is you?

Plot:
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates — sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It’s an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don’t exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.

Runtime: 88 min

Categories: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

   

The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)

The Time Traveler's WifeDirector: Robert Schwentke

Written by:
Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay)
Audrey Niffenegger (novel)

Tagline:
Does love repeat itself?

Plot:
A Chicago librarian suffers from a rare genetic disorder that sends him hurtling through time whenever he is under extreme duress; despite the fact that he vanishes at inordinately frequent and lengthy intervals, he attempts to build a stable future with the beautiful young heiress he loves. Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams star in this dramatic fantasy, which is directed by Robert Schwentke and based on the best-selling book by author Audrey Niffenegger.

Runtime: 107 min

Categories: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

   

The Fourth Kind (2009)

The Fourth KindDirector: Olatunde Osunsanmi

Written by:
Olatunde Osunsanmi(screenplay & story)
Terry Robbins(story)

Tagline:
There are four kinds of alien encounters. The fourth kind is abduction.

Plot:
In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. Modern-day, Alaska, where-mysteriously since the 1960s-a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Here in this remote region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented. The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by alien figures all share disturbingly identical details, the validity of which is investigated throughout the film.

Runtime: 98 min

Categories: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

   

District 9 (2009)

District 9Director: Neill Blomkamp

Written by:
Neil Blomkamp
Terri Tatchell

Tagline:
You are not welcome here.

Plot:
Year 1990 an alien ship arrives above Johannesburg, South Africa. Stationed discovery team finds near one million unhealthy, leaderless alien.  Treated as refugees these aliens named ‘prawns’ stationed in South Africa ‘District 9’. 20 years later from their discovery at 2010 a private military corporation named Multinational United (MNU) is placed in charge to relocating now 1.8 million prawns to another location ‘District 10’. MNU field operative in charge of relocation Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley) handles an alien device which squirts some weird liquid on his face. As a result Wikus becomes very sick and later on his left arm transform into arm of an alien. Being chased by governments for examination Wikus becomes a refugee aswell, his only hope will be one of the aliens Christopher Johnson the same alien who resisted him for relocation before.

Runtime: 112 min

Categories: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller