2011 - 88 mins. - Rated R
D: Joe Cornish
C: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter, Nick Frost
A group of juvenile delinquents have to defend their neighborhood from an alien invasion.
What went wrong? The idea of school aged children squaring off against aliens to thrawt off an invasion seems like a surefire kind of idea. So again, what went wrong with Attack the Block? Part of it is the pacing. There is long stretches where not much of anything happens. Part of it has to do with the fact that Attack the Block never captures the sense of joy, the sense of wonder & awe that is childhood. But a big part of it, has to do with this manfactured feeling that rings throughout all of Attack the Block. The characters say cool things while cool music plays in the...
D: Joe Cornish
C: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter, Nick Frost
A group of juvenile delinquents have to defend their neighborhood from an alien invasion.
What went wrong? The idea of school aged children squaring off against aliens to thrawt off an invasion seems like a surefire kind of idea. So again, what went wrong with Attack the Block? Part of it is the pacing. There is long stretches where not much of anything happens. Part of it has to do with the fact that Attack the Block never captures the sense of joy, the sense of wonder & awe that is childhood. But a big part of it, has to do with this manfactured feeling that rings throughout all of Attack the Block. The characters say cool things while cool music plays in the...
- 12/14/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
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