lukem-52760 There's alot of old school 80s style fun in this movie but the main gang of youths are little street thugs but turns out not so bad as the film goes on. The creatures/Aliens look AWESOME in Attack the block,they really look cool & menacing & made the old school way by practical FX like the 80s Films that inspired it such as Critters 3 & many others & in really like the big urban tower block setting, it's a cool place to have creatures stalking around & lurking in creepy corridors so a real cool 80s almost Carpenter style atmosphere!!! Like i said the gang of kids are ok some are cool & fight back really well so yeah not a bad bunch they are what they i mean it is supposed to be a rough london tower block so they would be wannabe gangsters. So yeah Attack the Block is a good fun watch & has some excellent monsters & some really cool scenes & a great atmosphere & location, a cool film that i do enjoy

dissident320 In terms of casting, this movie did a perfect job. Everyone is great, right down to the younger kids. And a large amount of the actors have gone on to be quite successful so the director chose well.In terms of the story and setup, it's all fine. They're attacked by alien creatures and they have to protect 'the block'. I had some issues with the overall execution of this premise. Its setup seems like it's going to be a bit goofier than it actually ends up being. It's not really a fun movie at all. The action is coherent for the most part and nicely shot. But it's very violent and is almost like a horror movie at times. I think Nick Frost was supposed to be the comic relief but he has barely more than a cameo of screen time compared to everyone else.It's an above average lower budget action movie but it only wants to dip its toe in humour and cheesy-ness despite having a fairly cheesy premise.

sol- Mutual distrust turns to uneasy alliance as an alien invasion forces a group of British teens to work together with a nurse who they mugged in this action thriller starring John Boyega as the leader of the teen gang. Boyega is just as effective here as in 'The Force Awakens', giving his hardened character a vulnerable, human side bubbling beneath the surface. The actors who play his young friends are well cast too. Jodie Whitaker is less effective as the nurse and Nick Frost is criminally underused, but in general, there is a lot to like about how the characters interact here. There are even some scattered comic moments to be had in how everyone from the teenagers' girlfriends to the local teen drug lord scoffs at their claims of being under alien attack. The gradual bonding between Whitaker and the teens, who she initially describes a "monsters", in the face of *real* monsters is where the film succeeds best though - so much so that the action sequences end up being a low point of the movie. Without any eyes and glowing sharp jaws, the creatures are quite unsettling to look at, but all the attack scenes become a little repetitive with the film sagging towards the middle. The movie certainly ends on a very high note, however, with a third act that potently pushes the film's single biggest message about teen thugs always being misunderstood and never properly recognised.

sykespj Since its' 2011 debut, this gem from rookie writer/director Joe Cornish has slowly worked its way into the sci-fi consciousness. The film also proves you can still make fun action movies that ooze a social conscience... and therein lies the magic.The movie kicks off with a South London teenage gang - led by a black Moses - mugging a young white woman. Immediately, my sense of social justice kicked in and I thought: "I'm going to hate this. Should I just turn it off now?" Glad I didn't.After a while I began to realize that the movie is about the enemy within... in this case represented by shadowy alien beasts invading "the block". Every time the film throws us an answer, it leads to yet another question. As others have pointed out, the movie is by no means perfect. But its' many good points far outweigh its' minor flaws.The performances are uniformly good to excellent. The special effects, while not brilliant, defy the movie's minuscule budget. All in all an impressive effort by Joe Cornish.Peter Sykes (Sci-Fi Lists)