Attack the Block

2011 Directed by Joe Cornish

Inner City vs. Outer Space

A teen gang in a grim South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

Jodie Whittaker John Boyega Nick Frost Alex Esmail Luke Treadaway Selom Awadzi Franz Drameh Simon Howard Jumayn Hunter Leeon Jones Sammy Williams Michael Ajao Paige Meade Danielle Vitalis Gina Antwi Natasha Jonas Terry Notary Chris Wilson Joey Ansah Adam Leese Adam Buxton Maggie McCarthy Flaminia Cinque Jacey Sallés Yvonne D'Alpra Karl Collins Jermaine Smith Lee Long David Cann Show All…

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English

Alternative Titles

Ataque ao Prédio, Útok na vezák, Чужие на районе, 異星大作戰

action comedy science fiction

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Popular reviews

Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 17

Lando Calrissian's love child as Moses the leader of a group of hoodlums and the only hope for civilization after aliens attack a block in London. Real gangstas ride bicycles. KRS-One. Predator's distant cousin. Broadchurch broad. Scared shitless. Moses's eyes. Mini mayhem. Fish fucker. Nicholas Angel's best mate. Enough ganja to make Snoop Dogg jealous. A puppet that's not a muppet. Moses's battle scar. A cool as fuck doggie. Real motherfuckers wear hoodies and play FIFA. Police harassment. Squished piggy. Samurai fuckin' sword. Binoculars. Ja Rule's stepbrother. Fat Joe's nephew. Fast & Furious moped ridin'. Dumpster diving. If you hit an alien fucker thingy hard enough with a baseball bat it will fuck it up. Flat invasion. Reefer paranoia. Is that…
Review by tia ★★★★

MY LONGEST YEAH BOYEGA EVER
Review by Florin Scanlon ★★★★ 10

Trust, this monster movie is bangin. A bunch of hoodies cotch in the ends on Bonfire Night, taxing some gal but they're interrupted by this swag thing falling from the sky. Quicker than you know it, the lads find themselves in the middle of this invasion and big alien gorilla wolf motharfuckas start messing around. Believe.
Seriously though, this movie is loads of fun. It's not laugh-out-loud funny but it amuses nevertheless and it moves at such an alert pace that it becomes an exhilarating ride to behold. There are several lulls but they're so few and far between that it doesn't become problematic and when they occur there's still something to get out of them, like character traits or…
Review by Sean Baker 8

Watched Blu-ray rented from Netflix.
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 1

I made Brooke watch this because I remembered it was really good, but I forgot that it's actually really REALLY good. This movie is so damn beautifully shot it drives me nuts. No duh Boyega became a star after this.
Review by Evan ★★★½ 2

Was I watching The Goonies, Gremlins, or Aliens? I'm going to go with a mix of all three. This film isn't as good as any of them when you put them head to head, but Attack the Block is definitely solid entertainment.
Review by Quinn Bailey ★★★★★ 8

Allow it, bruv.
A few assorted notes since it's late and I'm too tired to write a coherent review:
1) I wasn't really expecting this to be quite as... well, compassionate as it is. Every character in the film feels absurdly fleshed-out and possesses agency and interest regardless of gender or race (one of my favorite touches in this regard is how the early-film "suiting up" montage allows you to meet the main characters's families) and as a result you really start to feel scared for them. When someone dies, Joe Cornish makes you feel that death, and doesn't just use it for cheap shock. It just goes to show what a great script and a great cast can do. Speaking of…
Review by <Todd> ★★★★½ 5

"The government probably bred those creatures to kill black boys" -Moses,
The dealers would totally be the chillest people during an invasion.
This is my Paddington 2...believe. Listen up fam, this is a really outstanding movie and I loved it. In Attack the Block aliens attack a low income, high crime neighborhood in South London and the neighborhood says fuuuuuuuuuck that and it is beautiful and funny and redemptive and wonderful. John Boyega is a star. The soundtrack and score both slap. The aliens are adorable and menacing. What the fuck else do you want you greedy freaks?
I love this film bruv... it ain't no bad breed...believe.
Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★

John Boyega!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh this is so good. So fresh, so entertaining, so smart. It is *screaming* for a sequel and so am I
Review by 🃏 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐦 ★★★½

"Well, 'ere, lads, you've discovered a species hitherto unknown to science, quite possibly non-terrestrial in origin, and you kicked its fuckin' head in!"
- Ron
Basically a movie full of brilliant one-liners, smooth-as young performances, Finn from Star Wars and Nick Frost.
Oh, and many, many horny alien dog-bears.
Great fun.
Watched as part of Scavenger Hunt #65 | August 2020 - #11/31
Review by 𝑤𝑎𝑑𝑦𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑠 ★★★½

t͟h͟i͟s͟ ͟i͟s͟ ͟o͟u͟r͟ ͟b͟l͟o͟c͟k͟
Been meaning to watch this for a long time. It turns out to be a very humorous bloody good time. It takes its time starting out which felt very draggy to me. But 30mins in it becomes an underline sci-fi cult hit. It doesn’t offer anything new on this narrative you’ve seen before but does give a decent character development for Mr. Boyega. The alien designs are fascinating and the glowing chompers are just a cool factor on their own.
Don’t really have much to say about it. Very straight-forward. You get in on the pace once it picks up. The dark humor is very cheeky. And I wouldn’t be surprised if this builds more momentum in the coming years as a sci-fi classic.
Review by I. Simon ★★★★½ 2

This is a bloody great film, innit bruv?

(Seriously, this helped put Finn and the new Doctor Who on the map. Why doesn’t the film community talk about this more???)

Recent reviews

Review by CinematicPhilistine ★★★½

"Allow it."
Review by Martin ★★★½

Sci-fi puro y duro... Adolescentes y aliens asesinos. Qué hacen acá esos bichos? Qué quieren? De a poquito las piezas van encajando y todo va resultando muy satisfactorio.
La verdad es que es bastante entretenida a pesar de que hubo algunas cosas que me molestaron MUCHO, pero fueron menos a comparación de lo que si me gustó (que fue casi todo).
Los personajes, tan vulgares y prepotentes, me hicieron acordar a los de KIDS. Y el soundtrack pfff... Una maravilla
Encontré interesante algunas escenas en cámara lenta, muy épicas.
Por otro lado, la historia de redención de Moses me pareció una mierda. La multitud cantando su nombre al final de la película... No dejan de ser unos chorros los pibes jajaja bien presos van a quedar, corta
Review by Luan Monteiro ★★★½

Stremio
Review by caylajoy ★★★½

My first introduction to Jon Boyega! Having inner-city teenagers front an alien invasion movie was a very fun experience. With the producers of Shaun of the Dead, I didn't expect anything less from this movie.
Review by Miguel Ángel Bueno ★★★½

El barrio contra el espacio, una película gamberra, muy divertida y con mucho mimo. Como molan los bichos.
Review by bauO_O ★★★★

Jodie Whittaker casate conmigo reina por favor
Review by vehemint Mojito ½

Attack The Block - 2011 - Gave this one about 20-30 min. Nothing here for me really. It's not funny, no atmosphere. Well produced but that's really all it's got going for it.
Review by bestamericngirl ★★★★½

Lots of fun to be had with this movie. It’s a thrill ride from start to finish but it never lets you forget that it’s about more than just defeating aliens. It’s about gentrification, it’s about systems designed to hurt communities of color and poor people, It’s about the unrelenting oppression that confronts black people, most specifically young black men. How they are unjustly marked because of hundreds of years of racism and fear. It’s a powerful message that is upheld until the very end of the movie. Performances are great, the direction and cinematography are wonderful. Such powerful and striking imagery, the design of the aliens is superb. I found the script lacking at times but it always pulled me back.
Good stuff!
Review by clocking ★★★½

Ye quality film innit fam. Safe blud
Review by adelemo

Funny, exciting sci-fi!! Kids are in charge. They can’t call the cops but they do call their moms!
Review by clay conover ★★★★½

bruv... this ain’t your average monster movie, mate.
young John Boyega with his day-one blokes. what’s not to love?
it doesn’t try and make the protagonists that redeemable. refreshing and subtle twist on character arc representation.
Review by sid_99 ★★★★

Attack the Block is written & directed by Joe Cornish.
This movie is f**king awesome It's so low key but cleverly made. The concept of alien invasion films for a long time has been used very poorly I have seen many shitty alien invasion films be it Transformers or Pixels with all their hi-tech VFX and no story.
But, Attack the Block is a very fresh, surprising and exuberant take on the alien invasion genre. It's humorous and witty but at times you feel sad for the casualties too. The performance by the cast was so natural and dynamite and the British slangs made it even better.
Joe Cornish reinvented the alien invasion concept with Attack the Block just like Edgar…