- John Boyega and Jodie Whittaker defend their block
“ATTACK THE BLOCK” My rating: B (Opening Sept 2 at the Studio 30)
88 minutes | MPAA rating: R
“Attack the Block” hits the ground with all four limbs moving like the Coyote in a “Road Runner” cartoon, and it doesn’t let up until nearly 90 minutes later.
Along the way Joe Cornish’s low-budget alien invasion flick manages to be funny, scary, exciting and even socially relevant, though not so much so as to slow things down.
Set in a London public housing high rise (they’re called “estates,” which is a pretty classy word for a pretty grungy environment), the film follows a gang of disaffected teens who turn from mugging strangers to confronting an invasion of voracious alien creatures who have dropped from the sky.
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