2010 Directed by Chris Morris
A group of young Muslim men living in Sheffield decide to wage jihad, and they hatch an inept plan to become suicide bombers. Omar and Waj have a brief, disastrous run at a Pakistan training camp, while Faisal works on an unlikely scheme to train birds to carry bombs.
Tessa Ross Peter Carlton Alex Marshall Will Clarke Angus Aynsley Rita Dagher Carole Baraton Caroline Leddy Mark Findlay
Quatro Leões, Četiri lava, Neljä leijonaa, Tesseris leontes, Cztery lwy, Neli lõvi, We Are Four Lions, Stirje levi, Dört Aslan, 4 Lions
Absolute proof you can joke about anything as long as you do it right.
Film #120 of Make me watch your favourite.
Recommended by HowardBeale.
I'm a picky bastard when it comes to comedy, but I can safely say that Four Lions was tailor made for me. It is absolutely hilarious. It's In the Loop with terrorists.
Whenever I watch a comedy I always hope the makers are not afraid to search for and sometimes cross over boundaries. And whenever that happens I hope they go about it smartly. Four Lions' satirical comedy should perhaps not be labelled as smart, but it sure as hell is street smart. It seems to know and understand its subject really well, making the human connection so often missing in comedies feel palpable and real despite the ludicrous…
"i think i might be confused but i'm not sure."
"the report makes crystal clear that the police shot the right man, but as far as I'm aware, the wrong man exploded. is that clear?"
By the middle of the 2000s, it had been established that Islamist terror was the Defining Theme of Our Time, and any novelist, film-maker, playwright, poet or TV dramatist worthy of the title had to tackle it. Most artistic efforts of the time tended to concentrate on the radicalisation process, perhaps because the political classes' efforts to address it were so glib and lacking, perhaps because it offered the most obvious window to explaining terrorism.
Just about all of the works of art about radicalisation went something like this: young Muslim man from Afghanistan or Palestine sees their friends or family killed, goes to radical mosque, comes out convinced that suicide bombing is the only way to redress the balance,…
Four Lions is daring enough in its efforts to take on the theme of terrorism and transform it into an absurd, genuinely hilarious experience while keeping its controversial elements largely under control. Spot on with its British humor, Four Lions is for sure one of the most boundary-pushing comedies of the 2010s.
Chronicling four British jihadists' efforts to plan a suicide bomb attack, Four Lions is an effective satire on both the extremity in the Islam, and the incompetence on the British government's part to counterbalance such violence. British comedy is known and adored for its idiotic characters and quirky plot devices, and Four Lions is no exception, as we follow five muslim men, four of which are not the…
