Attack The Block
Attack the Block follows a gang of tough inner-city kids who rob Sam (Jodie Whittaker) as she is walking home in a scary South London tower block. She flees when the gang is attacked by a small alien creature which falls from the sky. While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of creatures falls. The gang grabs weapons, mount bikes, and set out to defend their turf. But this time, the creatures are much bigger. Savage and bestial, nothing will stand in their way. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her only hope.
1971, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
24 November 1982, London, England, UK
6 March 1976, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK
7 June 1969, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
5 January 1993, London, England, UK
17 March 1992, Peckham, London, England, UK
28 March 1972, Hornchurch, Essex, England, UK
1938, Lambeth, London, England, UK
June 22, 2013
Skilled, heartfelt entertainment done well.
March 04, 2013
A creatively unconventional invasion movie let down by its utterly unlikeable heroes.
April 25, 2014
Poses a tongue in cheek question - "What's scarier, hostile extra-terrestrials or black youth?" - and then riffs on the sad reality that many people would say the latter.
August 19, 2011
"Attack the Block" demands to be seen simply because it is a thrill - a pulse-raiser whose perfect construction and pointed wit make it one of the year's most exciting films.
November 23, 2014
Attack the Block lingers with you. Cornish is a formidable filmmaker and Boyega is an outstanding talent.
August 18, 2011
The movie's amateurishly made. But the script is full of little surprises.
September 02, 2011
Here is a shaggy monster movie that pulls double-duty as a satire of class and ethnic barriers, and how those barriers quickly disappear when we are forced to fight for our simple survival.
October 07, 2013
Attack the Block isn't a great movie, but it's fueled by a sense of energy that still makes it somewhat irresistible regardless of its (sometimes far too obvious) flaws.
August 26, 2011
An energetic genre ride with social ambitions about race and class.
June 13, 2016
The premise is outlandish, the special effects simple, and the cast largely unknown. But Cornish has kept his film short and sharp and given us characters we want to see survive. The result is a blast.
October 07, 2013
Attack the Block is essentially an action thriller and as such is effective.
