Attack The Block Review

A gang of teens have to fight off an alien invasion, the police and drug dealers in order to defend their block. After mugging ‘Sam’ (Jodie Wittaker) the gang are distracted by something falling onto a nearby car – an alien.  ‘Moses’ (John Boyega) brutally kills the alien. After the police catch Moses more aliens arrive, this time they are more hostile, Killing the two police officers. Moses and Sam escape and Sam seeks protection from the gang and together they have to defend the block.

Written and Directed by comedian Joe Cornish, I think that for Cornish’s debut film, it is very impressive. It’s the perfect mix of interesting sci-fi, witty comedy and light horror – very much like Nick Frosts’ and Simon Pegg’s Hot-fuzz/Shaun of the Dead.

A very well written movie. It has just the right amount of comedy, fitting in perfectly with the whole film.

I think that John Boyega’s acting throughout was impressive for a young actor. He plays ‘Moses’ a strong character who is clearly more mature than the others so he’s the obvious the leader of the gang.

The other members of the gang ‘Pest’, ’Jerome’, ‘Tonks’ and ‘Dennis’ were all individual and very well portrayed. The other characters like the drugged up ‘Brewis’  (Luke Tredaway) and innocent and sensible ‘Sam’ added more diversity to the group and made the plot more interesting. Also the drug dealer ‘Ron’ played by Nick Frost.

The conflict between ‘Sam’ and the gang kept your attention throughout as it made you wonder where they were going to end up.

It’s a very British film. It’s all filmed in London and shows a typical block of flats that are seen in most British cities.

Attack the block was a low budgeted film as shown by the aliens. The Aliens are covered in black fur and their teeth glow. The aliens are mostly costumed with some computer effects in editing. We rarely see the whole of the aliens body so less money would have been spent on the editing. But the acting, comedy and plot make up for the sometimes poor effects.

I think that Attack the block was a good film overall and I would recommend it and see it again.