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Additional Blu-ray options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
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November 7, 2011 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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| $11.57 | $9.99 |
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September 19, 2011 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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| $12.54 | $6.00 |
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Genre | Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure |
Format | AC-3, Blu-ray, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled |
Contributor | Alex Esmail, James, Franz Drameh, Joe Cornish, Nira Park, Nick Frost, Jumayn Hunter, James Wilson, Leeon Jones, John Boyega, Big Talk Productions, Luke Treadaway, Jodie Whittaker, Simon Howard See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 28 minutes |
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From the producers of Shaun of the Dead, Attack the Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen street gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing project into a sci-fi battleground, the low-income apartment complex into a fortress under siege. And it turns a crazy mix of tough street kids into a team of kick ass heroes. It’s inner city versus outer space and it’s going to explode.
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A high-concept, micro-pocketed mash note to John Carpenter and Walter Hill, this Cockney vs. Aliens saga generates an enormous amount of likability out of some very limited means. Executive produced by the folks behind Shaun of the Dead, writer-director Joe Cornish's feature debut mixes gore and gags in a ratio that should drive genre fans bonkers. Unlike many recent Comic-Con-friendly movies, however, Attack the Block admirably concentrates on actually telling a story first, with the in-jokes and pop-culture references treated as tinsel. Kicking off with a literal bang, Cornish's script follows a group of British teenage punks on the downward slide to outright thugdom. Once a horde of neon-toothed aliens starts falling from the sky, however, the kids find themselves appointed the unlikely protectors of their grotty South London housing complex. Cue the bottle rockets, dirt bikes, and ninja weapons. There's not much to the story beyond that, really, but any narrative sparseness is leavened by some healthy doses of low-budget ingenuity, chief among them the design of the negative-image aliens themselves, which suggest ticked-off wild boars after a serious Rogaine overdose. On the character front, the film also scores, quickly sketching out its team of likable (but not cuddly) bad seeds with distinct personalities. (That said, American viewers should be prepared to have at least a quarter of the slang fly over their heads.) Clocking in at a just-right 88 minutes, Attack the Block may ultimately never rise above the level of clever homage, but there's copious evidence that the filmmaker already has a firm understanding of what makes B movies tick. While his first film doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel, check out all the neat stuff in the spokes. --Andrew Wright
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : BR38793
- Director : Joe Cornish
- Media Format : AC-3, Blu-ray, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 28 minutes
- Release date : October 25, 2011
- Actors : Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, French
- Producers : Nira Park, James Wilson, James
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B005J4TLQG
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,959 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,166 in Action & Adventure Blu-ray Discs
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All that said, I must admit that the aliens themselves are a bit disappointing. We see very little of the first alien until it's dead, and even then we never get a good look at it (I didn't mind that so much - in fact Cornish might have been wise to follow this same plan for the rest of the film as well). The second wave of aliens, however, presents more of a problem for me. The aliens honestly look like the grass creature things from Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water" ("Scrunts" - sort of big shaggy bear-like creatures with lots of teeth). This is not a good thing. I know this is a low-budget film, so special effects will be limited, but these creatures just don't say "aliens" to me. They were scary and strange, but I couldn't quite see them as traveling through space.
But since I really don't think this movie is about the aliens, I can't complain too much about how they actually look (and maybe Cornish's point is that "aliens" come in many forms and attack from many directions). ATTACK THE BLOCK is an extremely exciting movie about the struggle to remain human in the face of attacks from all sides (and it's not an easy struggle). By the time we get to the film's climax, Moses is no longer the angry fifteen-year-old hoodlum we see in that opening scene. He's changed, and so have we as viewers.
ATTACK THE BLOCK is surprising on many levels. It's worth watching. It's worth buying. I loved it.
Takes a minute to get going, but once it has you it has you. Might have benefitted from a little more info about the aliens, or some more interesting interactions besides them merely being the "monster" of the flick but at that same time, that isn't where the focus of the movie lies. If you're more interested in the characters and their fight for survival than the aliens themselves, you'll probably enjoy this a lot.
VERY good acting from John Boyega. Give it a shot.
We have had a century of films where disasters come along, and casting call A-listers, white, John Wayne middle and upper-class types save the world while following the yellow brick road of the Hero's Journey. Pass me the barf bag, fam! Not this film. Nah bredren! The aliens attack the block, and the block's juvenile delinquents, mostly of various shades of brown, take the arena. No one is whitewashing these heroes, and the film even takes deserving jabs at them, but that's the way we've been needing to see it for a long time: gloriously ungentrified (though of course there's a gentrification theme as well).
No spoilers, but even the end is perfectly weighted. I don't know how the filmmakers knew that what I've been missing in all my sci-fi film-watching years was just: bare feds, bare snitches, bare thugs, and bare gorilla-wolf alien muthaf***ers.
Five stars as far as I'm concerned. Sure the effects might be below par but this was totally unexpected.
When I saw 'Inner City vs Outer Space' ;I thought for sure this was a kid's movie. I never even checked to see that it was rated 'R'. I don't know how well this did in the box office or if it made money but they were taking a big risk making a movie like this and making it for adults.
I was very surprised right from the get go, especially when you see a bunch of kids (only a few that are white) mugging a white girl. This is not the sort of thing you see these days. Political correctness and all. But then again this is not an American film.
The movie itself is exactly what you would expect from the cover only a lot better. It's a movie about alien beings who come to earth. A group of kids, all from one city block, battle it out using their wits to fight the aliens. I can't give much in the way of details or it would ruin the movie.
I'm guessing John Boyega got his role in Star Wars due to this movie. He is the 'leader of the pack' so to speak.
There are plenty of funny moments. Part of the humor for me was listening to the English slang the kids were speaking. It's a lot different than what somebody from the United States would expect to hear.
Anyway, this movie it highly entertaining. You won't be bored. It movies along at a brisk pace.
Highly recommended for sci-fi who want to see something slightly different and fans of English sci-fi.