Attack the Block follows the lives of several people in a London city block. We start the movie following Sam (Jodie Whittaker). Sam is walking down the street when she meets up with a gang of kids. This gang is led by Moses, (John Boyega), they then mug Sam. Sam gets knocked to the ground and while she is down notices something streaking toward them in the sky, then it crashes into the car next to them. Sam takes this opportunity to escape her muggers. We quickly find out that the object is an alien and is jumps onto Moses and scratches his face. Pissed, Moses leads the gang to hunt down and kill the alien. This is where the film starts to get really get moving.
The aliens in the film were very different from your standard movie aliens. The gang actually makes reference to this in one scene. They are in the park following hunting down a new alien when they spot it. Someone says they see its eyes, we see though that this is really his teeth glowing in the dark. The aliens were really well thought out and had a motive for their actions.
They primarily cast the movie with amateur actors and kids from the streets to adding a sense realism. The director really wanted to portray what it was really like being on the streets today. The acting is phenomenal, professional actors could not have played these parts any better.
Special effects were also really well done and helped to establish some drama in the scene; however the effects were never overdone.
In the end I really enjoyed this film. Being that it was a low budget movie that did some really big things. I would recommend it to anyone who likes Sci-Fi movies that have a few lighthearted elements.
I rate this film four smiley Mike heads, for its inventiveness and creativity.
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