I heard about this movie and had the good fortune of being able to see it all in about the span of a 7 day week, or as I like to call it an "Earth Week". This hidden British gem was opened as a limited release and despite the attachement of "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz" producers is technically considered an indie. So unless you have the luxury of living in or around a legitimate city, you'll probably have to wait for the Blu-Ray or DVD (if you're poor) release, sorry small town Suzie's! Here is the synopsis as I recall:
A group of young thugs in South London gots to defend they spot from an Alien invasion that for whatever reason seems to be taking place in the projects... I'm going to digress a little here, but I must admit, British ghettos seem to be way fancier than those in the US of A, I don't know if it's the accents, crumpets of reversie steering wheels but it IS fancier. Let's get back on track though... What starts as a typical night, of smoking jazz cigarettes and jackin' fools for these young blokes, becomes a fight for their life when mysterious comet like flares begin to fall from the sky. The fearless leader and younger British Denzel Washington doppleganger Moses, slays one of the beasts after being attacked. This sets off an all out war between glow toothed warewolf-esque Aliens and our young rag tag group of (fancy) miscreants. There is just the right amount of violence and tongue-in-cheek shennanigans to make this movie worth seeing to anyone who is tired of RomComs about best friends fucking each other and falling down as they try to put on their pants and wants to see something original.
Overall I'm gonna give this across the pondy thriller-diller a 4.02 out of 5 deathmarx.
Quote of the Movie:
Sam: "What's Ron's Weed Room?" Pest: "It's a room, filled with weed. that belongs to Ron"
-Sam and Pest discussing the semantics of a local gangster's grow room
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