Attack The Block Review

It's Bonfire night in South London and innocent trainee nurse Sam (Jodie Whittaker) is mugged by a group of hooded teenage thugs for her money and jewellery. This is until a meteorite carrying a blood thirsty small alien ruins the groups night. The gang leaded by the impassive Moses kill the alien and parades it around the block and keeps it in Ron's weed room who is portrayed by the hilarious Nick Frost. As they thought there night couldn't get any better it got considerably worse as the bigger, blacker and big toothed aliens come to rescue the smaller alien and killing anyone who gets in their way. It's now down to Sam and the gang leaded by Moses to fight the savage alien invasion and save the block.

The films plot is well written and the comedy i liked because it resembles the comedy used in Shaun Of The Dead slightly and this is included in Attack The Block because of Big Talk Productions produced the film like they have done for Shaun Of The Dead.

A screen shot from the film.
Ron (left), Pest (middle), Brewis (right)

The characters that really bring out the comedy in the film for me are Pest (Alex Esmail) who's a member of the gang, Brewis (Luke Treadway) who's one of Ron's customer and Ron (Nick Frost) a drug dealer. I think all three characters show witty comedy for example when Sam asks, "What's Ron's weed room?". Brewis replies "It's a big room! Full of weed. And it's Ron's". I find witty comedy funny and all of these characters show this throughout the film. 
The plot does lack depth and Joe Cornish should have but more depth into the aliens and go into more detail, like why they came to Earth and where they came from. Also Joe Cornish didn't put enough depth into the characters, for example Moses who is the main character. Cornish did show a little about Mose's life near the end but because he's the main Character he should of showed more.

The all British cast played their roles very well as they fight the aliens throughout the film. John Boyega who portrays Moses did well to show him as a strong character. Jodie Whittaker who portrays Sam also did well and do the rest of the gang. Alex Esmail who portrays Pest, Luke Treadway who portrays Brewis and a cameo from Nick Frost who portrays Ron brings all the comedy to the film i think.

With such a small budget, Joe Cornish managed to make the film attractive throughout the hole film, i thought the aliens he created without the use of Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) were convincing and the fact that they were shown for short amounts of time whilst in shot made them look realistic enough. 

Overall i found the film enjoyable. The exciting sci-fi horror comedy was great directorial debut for Joe Cornish. The film itself was never going to be a big blockbuster mainstream film but I thought Joe Cornish and the production team made a great, entertaining film with a small budget and unknown actors. If Joe Cornish were to make another film i would definitely go and see it. 
I recommend the film if you enjoy the sci-fi, horror, comedy genres.