Attack the Block met most of my expectations, but admittedly they were quite low. When I first saw the trailer I anticipated a chav-fest, violent alien film and this is what I was presented with. However, I was deluded into thinking that Attack the Block was a comedy. Maybe this is my own shortcoming as usually alien films scare me stupid, because my friends seem to find it mildly amusing. The film starts when nurse, Sam, gets mugged by a gang from a council estate. The gang are interrupted in their illicit activities by a alien landing which they promptly killed. This causes even more aggressive aliens to follow and hunt down Moses' gang.
Throughout the whole film most of the cast spoke in unashamed "Chav-speak", to the point that I didn't understand what was being said. My usual niggle of incomplete characterisation also applies to Attack the Block; Nick Frost acted without character or conviction and the writer's relied on typical social stereotypes.
Somewhere around the middle of this film it displayed unabashed moralistic tendencies when it became clear that the attack was a result of the gangs bloodthirsty lifestyle. Wow, that was about a subtle as clown dancing the salsa at a funeral.
The design of the alien, however, was effective in striking fear into my heart. The fur was pitch-black and the glow-in-the-dark teeth were act of pure genius. They portray no emotions or weaknesses, and it appears they are born killing machines. Well done to whoever worked on these aliens and combined simplicity with ferocity.
Yet again, I feel another low score coming, this is beginning to get awkward. 2 out of 5 again. Still, 5 out of 5 goes to the designer of the aliens for making them as scary as inhumanly possible!
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