Four Lions UK 2010 – 97min.

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Four Lions

English comedy about 4 very dumb men who think they're Islamic terrorists and dream of Jihad as they prepare a bomb attack.

4 idiots who think they know about Middle Eastern culture (their sources are Space Mountain, Amazon, YouTube, The Lion King, pop music and Mortal Kombat) decide to put an end to our consumer society by staging a bomb attack. Two of them go to a training camp in Pakistan where they mainly screw up, but soon they're back in England and helping their friends with the big plan. Except they don't know what to blow up. The internet? A pharmacy chain and its piles of condoms? The London Marathon? Or the local mosque, so that everyone will think it was an attack against Islam and moderate Muslims will rally to Jihad?

Likeable English comedy that pokes great fun at the stupidity of both Islamic extremists and the authorities out to take them down. It's hard not to laugh as they wrap a crow in explosives and blow it up, ask each other existential questions ("Am I one of God's mistakes?"), film one another in the training camp as if they were on holiday, shoot each other with water pistols or throw insults at each other like "gynecologist" and "Leonard Cohen"!

10.11.2020

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Rtinho

12 years ago

Original idea for a film, funny but very sweet and sour as it talks about manipulation of many innocent (or some too stupid) people, it is not exactly what I would call a comedy as the end is tragic but it is a good movie, recommended!


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