Sunday, June 13, 2010

Movie review – Four Lions” (2010) ***

Funny – might have been funnier if it had come out a few years ago, before we’d seen a bunch of films making fun of terrorism eg American Dreamz, all those Tropfest shorts. A lot of the humour seemed familiar, eg making terrorist videos with comic ineptness, arguing over what to blow up. The mostly unknown cast is very good – I particularly liked the Caucasian terrorist, with the crazy eyes – he’s just like the sort of nutters we have in Australia. They’re absolute jokes… until they do some actual damage. I particularly liked the last 15 minutes - very suspenseful.

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