89% Four Lions

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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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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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Genre: Drama, Comedy

Synopsis: Four Lions tells 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... Four Lions tells 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. [More]

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language throughout, including some sexual references

Running Time: 1 hr. 42 min.

In Theaters: Nov 5, 2010 Limited

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In Four Lions, five complete morons keystone kop their way toward terrorism and their 72 virgins...

A provocative gem that doesn't glorify terrorism as much as it does smart, courageous filmmaking.

Four Lions is about as funny and ferocious as films come. Never before has the phrase 'You'll laugh; you'll cry!' seemed like such a genuine, ominous threat. Chris Morris' confronting satire is not for the faint-hearted.

The murderous schemes of laughably fallible humans, the film suggests, are no less tragic for being absurd.

The film is tasteless and offensive. It will be especially offensive to jihadists. It is also very funny.

It's howlingly funny in parts; sad in others. It does get real. And, in its own way, shows the lunacy of jihad.

This one goes out to anybody who likes their comedy, dangerous, thought-provoking and, above all else, funny.

A film you expect to be funny given the comedic talent attached, but surprisingly it is also strangely moving as well.

A bitter, brilliant take on a world that is both ludicrous and nightmarish.

More than anything, the film works as a conceptual prank, a parody of the supposedly universal cliches of "humanist" cinema.

An appealing mix of witticisms, pitch-black social commentary and dimwit farce.

I think Chris Morris is a bit too clever for me. I didn't find this film funny at all, except for a couple of moments.

At its best, the film is very serious because it asks us to think about how such men are created. It's not uniformly successful, but it's far from being just silly or offensive.

Be warned: this is the blackest comedy you'll see all year. Some may find it in bad taste. Then again, if there is one thing that fanaticism hates it's the sound of laughter.

While tackling politically sensitive subject manner, this daring satire manages to offer both hilarity and poignancy.

The film has mined a treasure trove of stupidity in the Jihad as waged by men who are committee. Or rather, who should be committed, on the grounds of inanity

From the ludicrous to the tragic, Four Lions is a bit of a hit and miss affair, churning jihadism through the mincer of satire. When it scores a hit, it's very funny; when it flops, it just fizzles

One could compare this to SOUTH PARK, but at the risk of hyperbole, this may also be the War on Terror's very own DR. STRANGELOVE

At the heart of Four Lions is the idea that we should perceive fanatics as humans, rather than demons. There is much to be said for this...

Dodgy subject matter aside, Four Lions is hit and miss.