Review of Attack the Block (2011) by Rebekah H — 28 Dec 2015

Unique aliens, in that they're very simple to portray in CGI without looking like a completely cheap disaster. An ingenious measure for just working around budget limitation.

The characters aren't immediately likable, but they're not supposed to be. A gang of street urchins goes from blithely robbing a woman with a knife to loyally defending their turf from invading aliens. If you don't want to see such a turn around movie, where thugs are portrayed as full people who can be both villainous and heroic depending on their situation, then my recommendation is that you find something else. It hurts to see such a stand out movie's rating suffer from reviewers who sound like they could have spared themselves some time if they'd just read the description. These are kids with too much time and little in the way of prospects behaving as hoodlums, but that does not stop them from rising to meet the challenge. I was very excited to see John Boyega's success in the movie rewarded with a part in the new star wars.