Four Lions (2010)
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Critic Consensus: Its premise suggests brazenly tasteless humor, but Four Lions is actually a smart, pitch-black comedy that carries the unmistakable ring of truth.
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as Omar
as Hassan
as Barry
as Waj
as Faisal
as Alice
as Negotiator
as Matt
as Sofia
as Ahmed
as Mahmood
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[Morris's] new comedy has a provocative, ticklish premise -- five North England Muslims become suicide bombers, but can't decide who or what to take with them.
It's difficult to imagine a movie this boldly provocative about the underworld of violent jihad, much less one that actually inspires laughter.
The first feature, written and directed by satirist Chris Morris, may seem profane to some, but if you're doomed by watching it, at least you'll go down laughing.
A dark farce sitting somewhere between "Dr. Strangelove" and "Duck Soup." It will blow you away.
The film wisely doesn't try to explore the roots of religious fanaticism and how it can manifest as murder: Instead, it simply accepts the world as it is and focuses on the ridiculous.
Four Lions is more interesting than riotous. Consider it an example - a well-paced, clever and understated compassionate example - of a filmmaker wrestling with fear.
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Two nights before I watched 'Four Lions' I watched 'Peeping Tom' and the night before - 'Rashomon', two excedingly good films, perhaps they are the reason 'Four Lions' left me feeling cold and strangely enough, a feeling I'm not to familiar coming away from films feeling- annoyed at a missed chance (it's like 'Max Payne' again). Don't get me wrong, 'Four Lions' had me laughing at some of it's jokes, but the serious turns its took at the end felt unneeded and quite frankly, desperate, trying to get a reaction from the audience as the main character martyr themselves, main characters that throughout the film I felt no empathy for, so why should I care? 'Four Lions' had what it needed to be good, a new innovative premise and the cast to do it, what it came up with was a cheap anything for laughs (oh wait we're serious now but no we're not?), uneven mess.
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Funny.
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I could only make it half way through this...I do NOT get where the humor was in this. Not for me, obviously.
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Four Lions Quotes
| Waj: | Rubber dingy rapids, Bro! |
| Barry: | Barry: These are real bad times bro. Islam is cracking up. We got women talking back! We got people playing stringed instruments! It's the end of days. |
| Waj: | I think I might be confused, but I'm not sure. |
| Hassan: | I'm accidentally a suicide bomber! |
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