An amazing movie with some of the best creature design I've ever seen. Attack the Block is a sort of London hoodlum version of Goonies. Only instead of innocent children going for X marks the spot treasure. These are kids no one cares about except their own. And they face off against an alien threat. It's easy to assume based on descriptions that these characters aren't likeable because the first act of the movie is the gang robbing a nurse of her stuff (including her wedding band) on her way home from work. A home that she will turn out to share with these kids. But the movie is more than that one scene. The characters are fleshed out. Their actions in that moment while never justified are explained. When the world hates you and yours you develope an us vs them mentality and that turns out to play a strong role in what happened in that very short opening scene. But there's so much more to the movie to love. A character literally named Moses who has to lead his crew to victory first to the promised land of a step up the gangster heirarchy ladder and then to the fighting back against the alien menace. A menace that is very real and very realized in this film. Good kids don't make it and bad kids do. Even with the help of the nurse they don't have the easiest time. But the movie is a triumph of character that while primarily a sci-fi action set-piece has scenes of comedy that are some of the most emotional in the whole film. A must watch film. The lead character is so captivating I couldn't to see him in something else. A few year later I would get my wish.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2019-01-28T03:37:16Z
An amazing movie with some of the best creature design I've ever seen. Attack the Block is a sort of London hoodlum version of Goonies. Only instead of innocent children going for X marks the spot treasure. These are kids no one cares about except their own. And they face off against an alien threat. It's easy to assume based on descriptions that these characters aren't likeable because the first act of the movie is the gang robbing a nurse of her stuff (including her wedding band) on her way home from work. A home that she will turn out to share with these kids. But the movie is more than that one scene. The characters are fleshed out. Their actions in that moment while never justified are explained. When the world hates you and yours you develope an us vs them mentality and that turns out to play a strong role in what happened in that very short opening scene. But there's so much more to the movie to love. A character literally named Moses who has to lead his crew to victory first to the promised land of a step up the gangster heirarchy ladder and then to the fighting back against the alien menace. A menace that is very real and very realized in this film. Good kids don't make it and bad kids do. Even with the help of the nurse they don't have the easiest time. But the movie is a triumph of character that while primarily a sci-fi action set-piece has scenes of comedy that are some of the most emotional in the whole film. A must watch film. The lead character is so captivating I couldn't to see him in something else. A few year later I would get my wish.