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Attack the Block

2011

Overall rating: 3 out of 5

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Attack the Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing estate into a sci-fi playground. A tower block into a fortress under siege. And teenage street kids into heroes. It's inner city versus outer space. Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a scary South London tower block when she's robbed by a gang of masked, hooded youths. She's saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite, which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. Sam flees, just before the gang are attacked by a small alien creature that leaps from the wreckage. The gang chase the creature and kill it, dragging its ghoulish carcass to the top of the block, which they treat as their territory. While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time, the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Savage, shadowy and bestial, they are hunting their fallen comrade and nothing will stand in their way. The estate is about to become a battleground. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her, and the block's, only hope.

Attack the Block details

Formats:	15 DVD, Blu-ray, LOVEFiLM Instant
Starring:	Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, Joey Ansah, Chris Wilson, Lee Nicholas Harris, Adam Leese
Director:	Joe Cornish
Genres:	Comedy - Family, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Sci-fi - Alien
Studio:	ELEVATION
Collections:	2012's Top Films, Alien Invasion, Allow It, Best of British, Best of HD, Best of LOVEFiLM Instant, Comedy Crews, Dead Funny

Title	Runtime	Certificate
Attack the Block	1hr 24 mins	15

LOVEFiLM Instant Information

Run time:	1 hour 24 minutes
Rental release:	To be confirmed

Name	Discs
Attack the Block	15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	1 hour 24 minutes
Rental release:	19 Sep 2011
Main languages:	English

Name	Discs
Attack the Block	15 Feature

Blu-ray Information

Rental release:	19 Sep 2011
Main languages:	English

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LOVEFiLM Review Attack the Block

By Jonathan Crocker from LOVEFiLM

This is an alien invasion like no other, set on a south London council estate...
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What's not to like?

By a customer , 19 Feb 2012

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It's funny, the young actors are great, there's plenty of tension and a bit of gore. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not enjoying the reviews of people using the word 'chav' though. I quite hope one of the fluorescent toothed aliens munches them to be honest.

The fact that so many people seem to hate this film (though only those writing reviews, curiously, if you look at the breakdown of the ratings) confirms to me that I'm out of step with the idiot mainstream and I'm quite pleased.
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Brilliant British SciFi comedy

By a customer , 18 May 2013

this is not a hollywood production but for UK standard it was a brilliant version of alien. I'm a big fan of Alien and this comic version is just amazing and the actors were A actors.
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CRAP, unwatchable dont waste time!

By a customer , 15 May 2013

unwatchable the youth's of today are killing everything off! first 5 minitues of this prooves how bad the rest of it will be, and it was1
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brilliant british alien film

By a customer , 09 May 2013

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Brilliant film, had put off watching for ages but the aliens weren't the ridiculous impossible to kill creatures which are defeated by some silly plot like most other alien films are.
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A waste of time

By AVSheard (51 reviews) , 04 May 2013

The characters were unlikable and the plot made no real sense. It was more of an excuse to have a gang fight alien that they wouldn't last a minute against.
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Unwatchable - Film keeps juddering

By Farweasel (26 reviews) from Wilstead , 27 Apr 2013

What's the point when it won't even run smoothly? Told L F 2 months ago about this, came back hoping they'd fixed it - No chance. What about the film? I dunno, I can't watch it.
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