ATTACK THE BLOCKÂ (15)
D: Joe Cornish
Studio Canal/UK Film Council/Big Talk/Film4 (Nira Park
& James Wilson)
UK 🇬🇧 2011
88 mins
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Science Fiction
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W: Joe CornishÂ
DP: Tom Townsend
Ed: Jonathan Amos
Mus: Basement Jaxx & Steven Price
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Jodie Whittaker (Samantha Adams), John Boyega (Moses),
Alex Esmail (Pest), Franz Drameh (Dennis), Leeon Jones (Jerome), Simon Howard (Biggz), Luke Treadaway (Brewis), Nick Frost (Ron)
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"Bear alienz with a zed, innit bruv? Dey iz bear invaydin'
the 'hood n tingz, you knowz wot I is sayin'?"
Actually, no. I don't. And the above sentence is actually
more intelligible than the majority of dialogue in this pathetic excuse for entertainment in which a scummy South London council estate full of hooligans, thugs and drug dealers is the
subject of an alien invasion.
Strangely enough, this film did find some moderate success
with a demographic I share nothing in common with but this just seems ample proof that a fool and their money are easily parted.
To me, this film is just a bunch of shits behaving like a
bunch of shits and these are the fuckers the audience are supposed to be rooting for???? I just don't get it and for that reason I switched it off and pretended that the aliens won, for
I am a cynic who would rather face Armageddon than put my faith in a group of drug-dealing, antisocial rapists who can't put an intelligent sentence together and lack even the slightest bit
of charm or even simple manners. Disrespectful, odious cretins!
Personally, I think 'rudeboyz' and gang culture is a
disgrace to Britain and I find it distasteful that a film exists where this style of characterisation should be embraced. Projects like this only make me cheer the demise of the UK Film
Council so trash like it can't find their way on to cinema screens. I just wonder which library had to close it's doors in order for this piece of shit to be funded.
4/10
