Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Attack The Block (2011) 5/10

Starring : John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Nick Frost
Director : Joe Cornish
Running Time : 85 mins

A gang of teenage criminals discover that their local housing estate is under attack from space aliens, so they get together and decide to protect themselves by fighting off the alien invasion in the best way they can – with mindless violence.

I expected a lot from this movie, but was sorely disappointed. Even though the characters were scarily realistic and the situations were well observed, I couldn’t help thinking to myself throughout the entire movie “These kids are not being heroes – they are only fighting the aliens because they like being the big men in the area and don’t want to compete with anyone for their territory”. Basically the petty criminals were a bunch of assholes in my opinion and really shouldn’t have been congratulated for their efforts – they’ll be back on the street mugging grannies by tomorrow night.

You’ll like this if you liked : Alien Autopsy



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