Bombs?

Four Lions (2010)

No stranger to controversy in his work in television writer/director Chris Morris turns to the big screen with a black comedy about Islamic terrorism. A group of British Muslims want to get in on the war on terror but are not the most competent terrorists in the world.

I am sure there are some people that will find this film offensive on general principle but those are the type that are going to find something offensive without even watching it, for the most part I do not really think it is. There are some really funny moments in this film but I am not sure you would say it is consistently funny through out.

The it does end on a fairly sad note for the central characters but I am not sure it does enough to look into the real issues at hand even if the film does stand against fanaticism. In the end I do feel a bit like the soft option has been taken in a few areas and maybe this could have been a better film but it is certainly very British in it's treatment of the subject matter.

3/5