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Full of gory practical effects and fluent pop-cultural references, Attack the Block--an alien invasion scenario squeezed into a single apartment building--belongs to the same species of British genre comedy as Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Director Joe Cornish takes some clever routes around the limitations of his budget, filming on location in London's Heygate Estate (itself a once utopian science-fiction experiment) and mining the freshness of his young cast's authentic street slang. When the aliens arrive (they simply drop, during a frosty Bonfire Night, out of the shining pepper of the stars) they're also smartly designed: primal and supernatural, no detail escapes their digitally-blackened fur other than a set of menacingly glowing teeth, all of them incisors. The block's defence is up to a group of teenage hoods, lead by the imposing Moses (John Boyega) and reluctantly helped by middle-class neighbour Sam (Jodie Whittaker). Armed with fireworks and mounted on muscle bikes, they launch an entertaining and Spielbergian resistance through the block's labyrinth of corridors and walkways. As the body count racks up, Joe Cornish's smart script highlights the block's painful social divisions: Sam, the audience surrogate, is mugged by Moses' crew in the film's opening scene, and through Sam we're drawn into the poignant domestic lives of kids on the brink of gangsterism. More alien to each other than the beasts on their tail, the survival of these divided class members hangs on the recognition that they have a stake in each other. --Leo Batchelor
Amazon.co.uk Review
Full of gory practical effects and fluent pop-cultural references, Attack the Block--an alien invasion scenario squeezed into a single apartment building--belongs to the same species of British genre comedy as Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Director Joe Cornish takes some clever routes around the limitations of his budget, filming on location in London's Heygate Estate (itself a once utopian science-fiction experiment) and mining the freshness of his young cast's authentic street slang. When the aliens arrive (they simply drop, during a frosty Bonfire Night, out of the shining pepper of the stars) they're also smartly designed: primal and supernatural, no detail escapes their digitally-blackened fur other than a set of menacingly glowing teeth, all of them incisors. The block's defence is up to a group of teenage hoods, lead by the imposing Moses (John Boyega) and reluctantly helped by middle-class neighbour Sam (Jodie Whittaker). Armed with fireworks and mounted on muscle bikes, they launch an entertaining and Spielbergian resistance through the block's labyrinth of corridors and walkways. As the body count racks up, Joe Cornish's smart script highlights the block's painful social divisions: Sam, the audience surrogate, is mugged by Moses' crew in the film's opening scene, and through Sam we're drawn into the poignant domestic lives of kids on the brink of gangsterism. More alien to each other than the beasts on their tail, the survival of these divided class members hangs on the recognition that they have a stake in each other. --Leo Batchelor
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This review is from: Attack The Block [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Expected a lot more than the mundane film that it was. No real story, crap aliens that die really quick and look rubbish. This must be a B movie right. Wasn't even funny. Thought it was going to be good but it was dire.
1.0 out of 5 stars
All this film does is show what is ultimately wrong with society today,
This review is from: Attack The Block [DVD] (DVD)
I bought this film on a whim and the fact that my girlfriend had heard it was funny, it has Nick Frost in and is produced by the producer of Shaun of the Dead so thought I would give it a try thinking it would be taking the mick out of chavs. How wrong could I be, it did the complete opposite. For starters, a gang of chavs rob a woman at knife point at the very beginning of the film, then immediately after the aliens come and we as an audience are forced to either like the unlikely 'heroes' or be forced to endure a gang of chavs killing aliens.My biggest gripe about this rubbish film is how it promotes gang culture and chavs, the very thing that is wrong with society today is glorified throughout the entire film. The 'heroes' sound like idiots with their use of idiolect and obscure words like "brap" and "bled". The police are portrayed very badly in this film and no respect is shown to them at all throughout the film. The story was boring and unoriginal, every character is a tool in a tracksuit and Nick Frost is extremely poor in this film giving me an idea that he is only funny when Simon Pegg is around, he's lucky if he even made 15 minutes worth of screen time in this film and spent most of it stoned. The only positive thing about this film is the lovely Jodie Whittaker and that isn't enough to keep anyone interested for long. I swear Whittaker and Frost's families were kidnapped and threatened to be murdered to make them be in this film because I cannot see why they would have wanted to be in this. Overall, this is a extremely poor film that has no element of comedy in it whatsoever that I hate so much for glorifying gang/chav culture and making the police look like idiots. The characters are not funny and deserve to have been eaten, shame only a few meet a well deserved end and you find yourself rooting for the aliens for the entire film. The only thing this film does is promote the worst of what society deals with today and how stupid our children dress and speak, and they have the nerve to call other people's fashion sense. This film should not exist and you have been warned, chavs make enough money off drugs and beating other kids for their dinner money, don't give them more by purchasing this dreadful film.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Imagine Evil E.T. landing in the projects!.,
By Puzzle box "smockey_421" (Kuwait) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Attack The Block [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Attack the Block begins with teenage Moses (John Boyega) and his street gang attempting to mug a young nurse, Sam (Jodie Whittaker), when they're suddenly interrupted by a ferocious black bear-like creature with glowing blue sharp teeth and no eyes. Despite its size, speed and obvious viciousness, Moses manages to kill the thing, after which it morphs into a child-sized hairless alien-like blob. Always looking to make a buck, Moses decides to try and sell the corpse to... at this point we don't know, but after all there's a market for everything on eBay. Unfortunately, more of the creatures arrive and it's clear that they are not friendly.They're actually falling from space and the gang realise that they are in the middle of an alien invasion. Not good news if your only weapons are a knife and some nun chucks. And since there don't appear to be any National Guardsmen arriving to protect them, Moses and his gang partner up in defense of themselves and their dilapidated apartment building with older, tougher gangsters, the nurse and the rich drug dealer living in the penthouse. This is an incredibly assured debut, with unpredictable plotting, stylised dialogue and characters you really care about, once their frailties are laid bare. Joe Cornish has acknowledged his debt to '80s "creature features", but the film this most recalls is John Carpenter's action classic Assault on Precinct 13 - albeit set in London, and with added aliens - as a gang of disparate, untrusting souls band together to combat a greater threat, and an unlikely, initially dislike-able hero emerges. The characters in this film are varied enough and their parts well-acted enough to make the film quite enjoyable, never boring. Moses and his followers are trying to prove themselves to be tough despite their young age. The older gang members are more arrogant and tough to a fault (monsters love these types). Nurse Sam is a practical yet impressively resourceful woman. Comic relief is provided the gangsta drug dealer's best customer, Ron (Nick Frost) who's hilarious and stoned out of his mind. Attack the Block goes on to follow the above in their very bloody quest to battle the savage monsters as they attack the building one by one, and eventually in furry droves. The excitement builds and builds and eventually it's up to Moses to take down the alien creatures once and for all. Attack the Block is not traditional horror. It involves gore and certainly fright, but it's also an action-based thriller and comedy. Perhaps the subplot about middle class drug dealer Luke Treadaway was a bit of a misstep - although funny in itself, it slows proceedings - but everything else about this film was great. I highly recommend it for its sheer ability to entertain.
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