Last summer I went to see Cowboys and Aliens, a singularly disappointing experience. That movie sucked in almost every way, and it had such potential! I really wanted it to be great, but the director, Jon Favreau, totally missed the mark in terms of tone, silliness and explosions.
I hope he's seen Attack the Block. This movie is pretty much exactly what he was trying to do. It is tongue in cheek, just the right amount of scary, the perfect amount of cheesy, and well-paced. The dialogue is great. It has awesome comic relief, and the editing moves the movie from scary to silly without hesitation. It really works. In this movie, a gang of 15 year-old street thugs are robbing citizens at knife-point when they are interrupted by an alien pod dropping into a nearby car. They kill the alien, who happened to be a female scoping out the planet's hospitable-ness. Killing her was a huge mistake, as the much bigger guy aliens soon follow to avenge her death. They really only care about getting our gang of thugs, so they are attacking the housing project, or the "block".
This movie is awesome, and Yahoo viewers gave it an average of 5.8 stars. Are people stupid? Or is it possible they couldn't understand the non-stop British slang? Do yourself a favor and run the subtitles for this one. You'll learn some new words.
The star is a kid by the name of John Boyega. He's awesome. Also, he is NOT Denzel's son, appearance notwithstanding.
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