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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.

Attack The Block Research

How was it produced?

Big talk productions produced the Film with Film 4, The UK Film Council and Studio Canal. The Block itself was a composite of various council estates across London.
The film was shot across London from March to May 2010, with 6 weeks of night shoots on the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, Myatts Field Brixton Oval tube station in Kennington and the Bemerton Estate in Islington. Interior scenes were filmed at Three Mills Studios in east London.

What was it based on?

The film is slightly based on Joe Cornish (the director) and when he was mugged near his home in Stockwell, south London. He was mugged by a group of teenagers and after he investigated the kind of kids who robbed him, talking to children on the street and in youth clubs. He then put in some film fantasy and included aliens.  He made the film this type of genre because he was inspired by the films he grew up in the 80’s with like ET, Gremlins, Critters and Predator.

Were there any problems that arose in making the film?

One of the problems was that US distributors were concerned that American audiences might not understand the strong South London accents, and may have even used subtitles if it were to be released in the United States. Joe Cornish acknowledge this and said that the audience can understand the language.

How they saved money?

Money was saved in the film by them not using good special effects or CGI on the aliens. Joe Cornish didn’t spend a lot of money on the special effects because they wasn’t enough money for the film to use this. They also saved money by using unknown actors so they didn’t have to pay them highly.

What was the films rating?

The film was rated 15.

How was the film promoted?

The film had an official website which promoted the film. Also there was a trailer and posters released which promoted the film.

The Soundtrack

The films soundtrack was created by the electronic dance music group Basement Jaxx.
It included 20 tracks and was released in May, 2011.

Film Reviews, Audience and Institution Introduction

In the summer i went to my local cinema and watched a few films with my friends.

The films i saw were The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises and Ted.

These were the biggest films of the summer and this is one of the reasons why i wanted to go and see them. What also makes want to go and see them is the fact they were all heavily marketed by teaser trailers, trailers, posters, websites, images from set, interviews with the actors on talk shows.
What also influenced to go and see these films is that The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises were both set on comic books and have had previous films that i have liked. The Dark Knight was the previous film in the Batman trilogy, directed by Christopher Nolan.

The Director of these films also made me want to go and see them; Christopher Nolan directed the previous Batman films and Incepton which I really enjoyed, and that made me want to go and see The Dark Knight Rises because I liked the previous films that Christopher Nolan has directed.

Seth MacFarlane wrote and directed Ted, created the television show Family Guy that I like.

What made me go and see Ted is that Seth MacFarlane used the same humour he uses in Family guy and used it in Ted. 

I liked all three films. They were all enjoyable to watch. The Dark Knight Rises was a great end to the Dark Knight trilogy. The Amazing Spider-Man was a good remake of the previously disappointing films in my opinion. Ted was an ok film as well.

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Point Of View (P.O.V)

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