Fighting terrorism with comedy
FOUR LIONS Director: Christopher Morris Cert. 15
A satire about UK terrorism may not be your first choice for an entertaining night at the cinema, but there’s much in controversial writer-director Chris Morris’s latest film to make Christians take a second look.
Short-listed for a prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and starring Riz Ahmed, this is a film packed with surprises, not the least of which is its disarming capacity to bring both laughter and tears to the cheeks of many an unsuspecting cinema-goer. In the opening and closing scenes, we see the bombers messing up their suicide videos — and in between we watch them recruit the crow, blow up sheep, and blunder farcically from one tragicomic shenanigan to the next.
Be warned, there’s an awful lot of bad language (though a lot of it is so fast-paced it’s barely decipherable).
