Attack the Block certainly put a different spin on the alien invasion film, showing the audience what would happen if aliens invaded the "wrong part" of South London but it's too bad the members of the teen gang that decided to take them on was such a group of unlikable characters that "Attack" never amounted to anything other than a daft waste of time. Moses, Pest, Biggz and the rest of the bunch were the kind of kids that you hope your own children never turned out to be. They smoked weed, cursed and were always in troubled with the law, as such only 16 to 18 year old boys could relate to them while the rest of the audience found them to be vulgar and boorish. When the audience cannot relate to or emotionally connect with the protagonists of the film, then it really just becomes an exercise of watching the clock and hoping the film ends sooner rather than later so they get on to more interesting things (as it was with this film).
Obnoxious characters, flat jokes and an insipid story are what you can expect if you decide to watch Attack the Block.
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