Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

iNickR The savvy Joe Cornish pens and directs this easy, low budget, British sci-fi-action-comedy that reaffirms my love of independent cinema. Like many good indie flicks, Attack the Block is well acted, well shot, well designed and well directed.The technical side, although not perfect, is pretty sick. With a great use of camera angles, lights, and music, the viewer is dragged kicking and screaming into anxiety-ridden action. Even the "gorilla-wolf mf's" with the teeth gone "rave" are a riot.Bruv, for an English movie, I had to turn the English subtitles on, fam. The dialogue between the brethren is bare slang. Ironically, it is this mad mash-up of the Queen's English that helps make this monte aight. Have your urban app standing by to translate if you're born in the 70's or earlier.Nick Frost (without his BFF Simon Pegg) plays a minor role (pity), but John Boyega, who was 19 (19!) when Attack the Block was made (his first feature), and veteran British actress Jodie Whittaker, are your main protagonists who hold their own.Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

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.

yespat The title of this review is the movie. If you are a fan of Ali G, chances are good you'll enjoy it. I think the target audience though is underprivileged u.k. kids. Even so, I enjoyed it a lot, more than I thought I would. And the lead actor, the kid who plays Moses, is a young Denzel Washington. A lot of excitement, some scary aliens with blue teeth and a reasonably OK story. Certainly offers more than a lot of films.

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)