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Rating: 9 stars

All movies seen on 05/25/2011

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Attack the Block (2011)

Directed by Joe Cornish

Science Fiction | Action | Comedy

Most recently watched by Javitron, zombiefreak, krazykat, seanCduregger, jenerator, sleestakk, schofizzy, themarc, noahphex

Overview

A teen gang in a South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

Rated R | Length 88 minutes

Actors

John Boyega | Jodie Whittaker | Nick Frost | Alex Esmail | Luke Treadaway | Selom Awadzi | Franz Drameh | Simon Howard | Jumayn Hunter | Leeon Jones | Sammy Williams | Michael Ajao | Paige Meade | Danielle Vitalis | Gina Antwi | Natasha Jones | Terry Notary | Chris Wilson | Joey Ansah | Adam Leese | Adam Buxton | Maggie McCarthy | Flaminia Cinque | Jacey Sallés | Yvonne D'Alpra | Karl Collins | Jermaine Smith | Lee Long | David Cann | Dylan Charles | Lee Nicholas Harris | Stephanie Street

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

I’m lucky I have good friends who look out for me. If it weren’t for my friend @sleestakk I wouldn’t have had a pass to this free screening of Attack The Block. This was one of 25 different screenings across the U.S. for this as-yet-unreleased flick.

I loved this movie! It was just plain fun and cool. It maintained a great balance of comedy and sci-fi action, which, frankly, is pretty damned difficult to do.

Directed by Joe Cornish, who co-wrote the screenplay for the forthcoming TinTin movie, AtB is his first big screen movie. Congrats to him for knocking it out of the park!

AtB premiered at SXSW and there was a lot of talk about whether the thick British accents and heavy urban slang would prove to be a barrier to it doing well in the U.S. It DOES take some time to kind of get your hearing in sync with the dialogue, but that wasn’t a barrier to me at all. I think the accents and slang add a LOT to the movie. It just wouldn’t be the same if it were subtitled or dubbed.

I should also mention the soundtrack, which was a collaboration between The Basement Jaxx and Steven Price, who has done a ton of music editing, programming and composing for a long list of films, including Scott Pilgrim, Batman Begins and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

What really sets AtB apart is the great acting by a group of unknown kids, led by John Boyega as Moses. My favorites were Mayhem and Probs, played by Michael Ajao and Sammy Williams, two 9ish year old wannabe gangbangers, but all the kids did a great job in their respective roles.

If you get the chance to see this film, I highly recommend it, even if you have to go out of your way to do so. Here’s hoping it gets a U.S. release date from Screen Gems.

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