2011 · action · sci-fi · comedy
Attack the Block
Directed by Joe Cornish1h 28m2011
A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
Our read: Attack the Block (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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“You want lean South London sci-fi horror with swagger, aliens, and surprising heart underneath.”
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