Four Lions
2009/UK/94mins/Dir: Christopher Morris
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia Davis, Chris Wilson, Kevin Eldon, Will Adamsdale, Preeya Kalidas, Riz Ahmed, Craig Parkinson, Danny Ashok, Nigel Lindsay
From the creator of Brass Eye, a satire based on a group of four Islamic Jihadi terrorists from the north of England.
The story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that – while terrorism is about ideology – it can also be about idiots.
‘a deliciously subversive comic ride, it truly gunges up the synapses with so many conflicting emotions while the one-liners are flowing that the only thing you can do is give in to its demented logic and laugh…’ Empire Magazine