Last year a film I kept hearing about but didn’t get around to seeing in the theatre was ‘Attack the Block’.  The pitch I heard was interesting enough; a group of inner city London(!) kids thwart off an alien invasion on their own.  Now that it’s available to rent, I finally had time to check it out.

Sci-fi/horror is not one of my favored genres, but I’ll join the chorus and say I enjoyed this film.  What it lacks in budget it more than makes up for in charm and ‘different take on a familiar subject.’  No surprise at all that some of the guys involved with Shaun of the Dead were involved in this film.  As I rewatched the trailer (below), I wondered if Hollywood would try to ‘adapt’ this film to a larger audience.  Then I recalled a mini monologue in the third act the main character gives, which basically theorizes the government sent the aliens into ‘the Block’ to wipe the people out just like they sent in AIDS and crack.  So, um, not waiting for the Hollywood version of that scene at least.

Anyway, fun little movie if you haven’t seen it.  One more post tomorrow to go into the weekend.  Until then…