Attack The Block (9/10)

Add this to the movies I plan on showing my kids (well when they're a bit older) because this one is a running riot. I'd imagine directors such as Abrams, Spielberg and Tarantino are going to watch this and be cheering until their lungs hurt. It's sci-fi heaven with comedy and action to boot. Go out of your way to watch this one because it really is a blast of excitement.

"Attack The Block" takes place in South London. The location is important because it's the equivalent to South Providence to us. Chances are walking alone at night your going to get mugged or worse. Sam (Jodie Whittaker) happens to fall into this problem. She's mugged by five young hoodlums and are rudely interrupted by an object falling from the sky. Well this object so happens to be an alien and it's only the first of many. So now our five gangbangers, Sam, some weed dealers, two young whippersnappers and a scarred/stoned white boy are going to have to fight off an alien invasion or die trying. Watch out for John Boyega who played Moses, the leader of the five muggers. It's a potential breakthrough performance (meaning I hope he makes it big), he's got the makings of a young Denzel Washington.

There is so much fun in to be had in this movie I don't know how to explain it all. In fact I don't want to, you should see it for yourself. Watching kids fight aliens with bottle rockets and a katana is thrilling. It's fast paced and evolving so by the end it'd have grown a little in heart. As soon it was finished I wanted to watch it again.

9/10
Recommendation: Great little sci-fi action/comedy. I'd suggest it to anybody under any circumstance. This came out the same week as the disappointing "Cowboys & Aliens", every day of the week I'd say watch "Attack The Block" first, even if it means skipping the other.
PS: As of today it's playing at Providence Place Mall, it's a must see.