This is a Brusimm movie review of Attack the Block
I finally was able to catch the much heralded alien attack movie, called Attack the Block, and for all the hoopla that I had read about online, I was expecting a bit more. That’s not saying it wasn’t an entertaining piece of work. I just think I got excited about something and built up expectations a touch higher than they needed to be from some of the spin or studio-line some folks were towing.
Yet, don’t be deterred, it did win various film festival awards, and those don’t land in anyone’s laps lightly.
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Hence, Attack the Block did not suck, but in fact was entertaining, imaginative and challenged me at spots.
The movie is takes place in a less than desirable neighborhood of South London, where aliens start raining down upon this small piece of the world in the form of what look like small meteor strikes and a local “group” of kids end up defending the neighborhood from them.
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The movie comes from the mind of Joe Cornish, who wrote and directed this alien invasion bit. If you follow who writes or directs what movies, you’ll notice Cornish’s name come up as the screenplay writer for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures and Tintin. In IMDb, he’s enthusiastically being credited with the job of penning the script for the Ant Man movie… if it ever gets off the ground.
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