Attack The Block

Director: Joe Cornish

Year: 2011

Language: English

Length: 1 hr 24mins (84 mins)

Staring: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, Joey Ansah, Chris, Wilson, Lee Nicholas Harris, Adam Leese.

Plot: [Taken from LOVEFiLM] Attack the Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing estate into a sci-fi playground. A tower block into a fortress under siege. And teenage street kids into heroes. It's inner city versus outer space.

Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a scary South London tower block when she's robbed by a gang of masked, hooded youths. She's saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite, which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. Sam flees, just before the gang are attacked by a small alien creature that leaps from the wreckage. The gang chase the creature and kill it, dragging its ghoulish carcass to the top of the block, which they treat as their territory.

While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time, the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Savage, shadowy and bestial, they are hunting their fallen comrade and nothing will stand in their way. The estate is about to become a battleground. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her, and the block's, only hope.

Review: I couldn't recommend this film more. Firstly, it is not a film about heroes prevailing, which is awesome and different and scary. It's a near perfect rendition of how it would actually be aliens did attack a Block in the south. I say near because, coming from South London, I happen to know that pretty much everybody owns a gun.

However! With that aside, this is an amazing film. Its really dark with that wicked wit that often catches you by surprise. It really a film for everyone whether you laugh at what they say because of what they said or how they said it, either way you'll laugh. But, it does have its equal share of darkness you'd expect from a good sci-fi. Its got jumpy bits that add more to the suspense than just placed in there for the sake of it like you'd expect from such a low key film.

It was a brilliant idea about the aliens and moths and the pheromones and how that all worked! It wasn't something that had really been explored before and it worked perfectly. Oh Brewis and your pretty blue eyes and butt chin.

Its directed amazingly well, down to the tiniest pieces of background of the amazing make-up its beautiful. The shots are seamless and very well executed. I'm just not so sure about the actual plot... It seemed like they kind of forced scenes into it when they didn't really need to happen.

To be honest this film is full of beautiful one liners, which is good, but that's all there is, no real conversations took place. Which I personally liked because I hate it when films get too mushy and plot-y, but then I also feel like in taking it out near completely they may have lost something.The ending was... different. I also don't really think this film will work outside of the UK or if you have a concept of England, blocks of London in particular and its youth.

The acting is amazing and I can definitely see these kids being in more and more stuff along the road, but I'm not really sure why Nick Frost wasn't in it more? Odd... I love me some Nick Frost. 

I'm completely against the fact they killed his dog though. That was shit. Don't kill animals, dude. Not cool! The story would have moved along just fine without that.

Quotes: 'Pest: You'd be better off calling the Ghostbusters, love.'

'Pest: That's an alien, bruv. Believe it.'

'Jerome: This is too much madness to explain in one text!'

'Pest: Calm down, Biggz. This ain't Pokémon!'

'Hi-Hatz:I was gonna make you, now I'm gonna dead you. This is MY block.'

Overall Rating: 4/5