Four Lions (2010)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Really Surprised!

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

First, to all the people who gave this anything less than 5 stars: You haven't the slightest idea about satire, comedy or anything for that matter. This movie is funny, because it's only bordering on the authentic. Stupidity has no limits, no boundaries. This is a fact no matter how much anyone might try to dispute or disapprove. Barry & Waj (two of the boys) is proof of that. I'm certain that there's a ton of Barrys and Wajs out there somewhere. I actually believe that there's a Barry everywhere in one way or another.The fact that this film turns dark towards the end is only logical. It's to be expected. How else can one let this movie end? Stupidity combined with violent intent always ends badly or tragically. I'm especially fond of the Heimlich near the end there. The Cumberbatch cameo as the perplexed negotiator also was a nice surprise. This movie's full of interestingly bad/dumb decisions and statements. I watched it just once and I'm already repeating or quoting some of them. As far as Chris Morris goes, I'm not familiar with his work, apart from his role in The IT crowd, but just for having the balls to make this 6 years ago, he should be commended. 7.4/10

I remember the first time I saw this film, thinking it was one of the funniest I had ever seen, and I haven't seen many that have made me laugh as much since. Chris Morris is known for black comedy and 'Four Lions' is certainly fantastically dark.The plot, the characters, the dialogue - everything about the film is funny. The stupidity of the main characters combined with the absurdity of their plans make this a truly hilarious film and a great piece of entertainment.'Four Lions' is a comedic gem. A rare naturally funny film that is guaranteed to make you laugh.

why Islam is always labeled as terrorists ? is this fair? NO!. This is not fair!. All people of any faith, race, ethnicity, class, caste, etc, likely to be a terrorist.But of all these sensitive matters, this film tries to make the terrorists with their all actions as a joke!. In other words "laugh at terrorism act".The black comedy film from British land really "tickle " to watchVery entertaining and fresh. Enjoy.wikipedia said: A group of radicalised young British Muslim men aspire to be suicide bombers. They are Omar (Riz Ahmed), who is deeply critical of Western society and imperialism; his dim-witted friend, Waj (Kayvan Novak); Barry (Nigel Lindsay), a bad-tempered and extremely rash white convert to Islam; and the naive Faisal (Adeel Akhtar), who tries to train crows to be used as bombers. While Omar and Waj go to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, Barry recruits a reluctant fifth member, Hassan (Arsher Ali). The visit to the training camp ends in disaster, with Omar misfiring a rocket backwards that kills fellow jihadists; however, he uses the experience to assert authority on his return to Britain.The group begins acquiring materials for making improvised explosive devices but disagree about what to target. Barry wants to bomb a local mosque as a false flag operation to "radicalise the moderates", but Omar considers this idiotic. Faisal suggests blowing up a branch of the pharmacy chain Boots, but Omar states it is a not a worthwhile target. Hassan allows an oblivious neighbour (Julia Davis) into their safe house; the group think they have been compromised and transport their volatile explosives to a new location in grocery bags. Faisal accidentally trips in a field while carrying the explosives and blows up. This causes a row among the remaining four, who disband; but they reconcile, and Omar decides to target the upcoming London Marathon.Wearing mascot costumes to conceal their explosives, they prepare to attack. Waj expresses doubts about the rectitude of the plot, but Omar convinces him to go ahead. Hassan loses his nerve and tries to alert nearby police officers, but Barry detonates his bomb using a mobile phone, killing Hassan. This causes the police to search for the remaining three.Omar realises he has led an unwitting Waj into something he does not want to do and tries to change his mind. Police attempt to shoot Omar as he mingles with other runners but, instead, shoot a bystander dressed as a Wookiee. Omar eventually contacts Waj from his mobile phone but is attacked by Barry, who swallows the phone's SIM card. However, Barry begins to choke on it, causing a passer-by to carry out the Heimlich manoeuvre and detonate his bomb.Waj is cornered by police and takes a kebab shop hostage. Omar then borrows a phone and attempts to talk him down, but his call is interrupted when the police raid the kebab shop, in which they kill a hostage whom they mistake for Waj. Confused, Waj detonates his bomb, destroying the place. Distraught, Omar walks into an empty pharmacy and blows himself up. In an epilogue, it is revealed later that the police have arrested Omar's innocent Muslim brother as a terrorist; that they deflect responsibility for shooting the bystander; and that Omar and Waj killed Osama Bin Laden when Omar misfired his rocket in Pakistan.

The film as a comedy is patchy throughout with its main strength being the actors that play their characters dead pan. Their are comic moments that make you chuckle but this is no comedy.What it falls down in is that it depicts those radicals as morons and ill educated losers trying to get recognition.The sad fact is that while there are members that may fit this profile they are the fodder that become perpetrator and victim. The majority of those in charge are intelligent, educated and many from Britain come from middle or upper class families.Comedy is said to be the art of taking a serious subject and making it funny. This may have funny moments but it does a dis-service as comedy has to have a centre of truth which is lost in this film.Are we seriously to believe that an educated woman with a child and a career would quite happily support her husbands wish to die as a martyr ? Are we supposed to believe that these characters are so stupid that they are prepared to, without thought, sacrifice their friends while committing a senseless indiscriminate act of mass murder at a marathon. Moslems jog too you know.No, the real truth is that most suicide bombers are in their teens or are single men or women who have been conditioned to believe that their only contribution in life is to die for a cause they do not fully understand. However, in the background mainly older men are prepared to accept their sacrifice while continuing into old age and savouring the joys of life they have denied to their lesser cohorts.