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(2011)
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Bonfire night, South London: Sam (Jodie Whittaker) is robbed by a gang of hooded youths. Suddenly a flaming meteor crash-lands close by. Sam makes her escape, but the gang are attacked by a small vicious alien. They kill the ghoulish invader, but their triumph is short lived. More aliens are invading and they're bigger, stronger and out for blood. The gang's only chance of survival is to take refuge within the concrete walls of their housing block. Teaming up with Sam and local drug dealer Ron (Nick Frost), they realise it's time to step up and be heroes.
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Attack the Block review by CS
Senseless and Moronic!
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Supported by the British Film Foundation and a host of other charitable arts organisations. This film really does look like a budget project for a group of art graduates. Set in a UK London housing block, the story line is so simple you could write it on the back of a postage stamp. Gang of nasty teenagers terrorising the neighbourhood, take on a group of invading aliens, win and become the heroes of the day! This film sends out such a bad message to young people because it suggests that no matter what you do, no matter how nasty you are, if you save the day (once), suddenly all your victims think you're their hero (not)! I get the impression that this film was made to send a message out to youth about changing their ways, but it fails miserably and instead just encourages young people to be more violent, in my opinion! If you are under 18 and have such limited use of the English language that every other word is a swear word or trendy teen speak (not so cool or trendy), then you will probably love this film. But once the pubic hair starts growing, you'll change your mind!!
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Attack the Block review by PV
Silly Multicultural Alien-attack B-movie
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This film is watchable - and I enjoyed watching it, whilst laughing at how absurd it all was and also how very politically correct (no doubt the setting and the ethnic diversity helped get the funding too). Good acting, all in all, too, especially from the character 'Pest' (Alex Esmail?)........... All in all, the silly story moves along in its cliched way - the USP of this film simply being the fact it's set on an awful 'sarf lundun' estate and most of the characters are black - and muggers or drug dealers: and there lies the central problem of this movie, whose ridiculous story can survive the cheapo special effects and the fluffy teddy bears - supposedly aliens - who want to kill them. The fact is that, having lived near an estate like this and put up with the kind of mugger scum who live there, I was very much on the side of the aliens and wanted all the kids who are the 'heroes' of this story to be ripped to shreds by the alien lifeforms. I cheered every time the aliens got someone!!!!............... Now, I notice that this movie is written and directed by Joe Cornish - the ex-public school boy from a stinking rich family - who, no doubt, finds all the multicoloured durg dealing people on hellhole estates like this terribly cool - so long as he can play at being 'street' and always return to his country pad. I've known a lot of white guys like this in London - such fun to play at being gangsta when one can go back to real life somewhere else eh?.................... Those of us from ordinary families who have had to put up with the crap from feral kids from estates like this would never, ever be able to sympathise withy any of them - because we've been mugged and attacked by them, as they ruin inner city areas and make people's lives a misery. Maybe a remake then? Shot from the side of the aliens - who all seem much more attractive than the drug dealing mugging scum from the estate? For real...and ting, blud. As Master Cornish would not doubt way in his Westminster School accent...
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Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
| Release Date: | 19/09/2011 |
| Production Year: | 2011 |
| Run Time: | 88 minutes |
| Aspect Ratio: | Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Format: | Pal |
| Colour: | Colour |
