What a beautiful movie!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

People keeps on messing with ratings , a producers would buy ratings exactly like buying followers in social media !!! I guess it's like s a group of members spreading all over movie rating websites doing that kind of mess to earn some money !!People keeps on messing with ratings , a producers would buy ratings exactly like buying followers in social media !!! I guess it's like s a group of members spreading all over movie rating websites doing that kind of mess to earn some money !!

A comedy about jihad? Seems unlikely, right? And yet it kinda works. This movie isn't martyr dumb. It's a pretty smart funny comedy, directed by Chris Morris. The movie pokes fun at Islamic terrorists, by showcasing a group of British idiots trying to bomb the London Marathon event. This movie is very hard to watch, due to its disturbing subject matter. I don't recommended it to the normal viewer due to its very offensive, dark, and kinda crude nature. It might bring back bad memories of 9/11/01 or the 7/7/05 terrorist acts. It's even harder to sit now. At the time, 2010, the timing was alright to laugh at, since terrorists acts seem to die, down, a bit in the Western world, but now, as of this writing, it's kinda bad timing. 2013 saw the real-life terrorism bombing at the Boston Marathon and a year later, the British terrorist group known as the Beatles decapitated a lot of westerners for the extreme beliefs of the Islamic State. It's hardly a good time to make fun of them and not take them as a serious threat. Who knows? Maybe a few years into the future, Jihad satire can once again, seem funny. After all, timing is everything in comedy. It's critical. You don't want to make a film of bad taste. While, the movie is controversial, it doesn't go overboard with the War on Terror satire to the point that it became sicken to watch like certain films, such as 2007's Postal & 2008's An American Carol. The movie find the right balance between using, defusing humor to degrade Muslim terrorists, and giving social insight on how mismanaging, the government is on, pinpointing and separating Islamic extremists from the large amount of normal Muslims communities. This is British farce at its very best: using comedy to make a serious point. This film is also a powerful tool to prevent individuals from becoming suicide bombers, because it shows how hard, it is, to live up to the cultural sacred values of the cause. It shows how blind, people can become, when signing up for a cause, they don't really, understand. Most of the characters in the film, have no clue, what they're doing. The movie mainly focusing on three conflicting personalities. The first one is Omar (Riz Ahmed), a disheartened arrogant young man, who against the odds with the world over its persecution of Islam and its followers, yet he doesn't follow, any of the rules of Islam and often doesn't take anything, really that serious, and often falls back into his consumerism pop culture, Western lifestyle. Then, there is Barry (Nigel Lindsay), a white Islamic convert (Nigel Lindsay), who is a raging, paranoid self-hating extremist that use his brutish demeanor to demand a faux respect. Unlike Omar, he take everything, way too much serious and really isn't open to many of the other members more peaceful acts. The third lion is Waj (Kayvan Novak), a simpleton pawn, that taken advantage by the two stronger dominant personalities. By focusing on these three characters, 'Four Lions' shows the polar sides of terrorism; the way that influence can overtake both and strong and the weak. As these characters devise their plot against oppression, they struggle to explain themselves and thus struggle to convince themselves that what they are doing is really the right thing to do. While, characters like, the Hip-Hop rapper, Hassan, (Arsher Ali) & the over shy Faisal (Adeel Akhtar), had some of the funniest scenes in the film. I felt that, they weren't really needed. I really couldn't get into the characters, too much. It's not the fact, that they're terrorists, and pretty unlikeable people. It's the fact, that the Four Lions, somewhat had success in killing innocents people. While, the story is fiction. It's hard for watch, the movie to make light of handful of innocents people who were murdered in the film. Honestly, I thought the movie would have work better, if they all killed themselves, without killing one westerner person. It would had make, their mission seem more senseless. The acting was alright for the most part. The actors playing Omar and Barry were probably the best; while, the others actors playing the rest of the lions were a bit mediocre. I didn't like the portrayal of Omar's family. The wife and kid were so bland. It's weird that his family would be so open to having their father, died for a worthless cause. I found it to be a bit preposterous. Yes, families of terrorists are as "open-minded" for suicide, but you would think, it would be, funnier if they were strongly against it, playing off as a funny family sitcom conflict. It would had been brilliant. Anyways, I do like the cameo from Benedict Cumberbatch as the police hostage negotiator. I wish, he had a bigger role, than what he got. He would had, made this movie, a lot better, than it was. The movie works with a very open script. Most of the dialogue was made on the use of ad-libs, because of this, it leads to a fair share of dull moments and misfired jokes. One big complain about the film used of unfamiliar British slangs and a sprinkling of Arabic words. It really hindered, my understanding of what they were saying. I was deeply disappointed that the movie DVD, because it didn't have any hard of hearing English subtitles. The way, the movie is shot is a big problem. It felt, a little distortion, cheap, and blurry. I didn't love, the long zoom shots into the locations. It was unappealing. The ending was kinda rushed, but it works out, best. The action in the film was appealing. I just wish, the movie had better pacing. It was a little too long with the 102-minute run time. 20 minutes should had been cut off. Overall: It's an intelligent, edgy, risk-taking, and uncompromising political unapologetic comedy that is worth checking out. A must-watch.

This movie should have clearly achieved way more than it did. The actors have displayed how high they can perform and Christopher Morris has done an excellent job in directing this master piece.The actors have done a truly excellent job in quickly changing between emotions and have shown they can act serious scenes as well as the comedic ones that make this movie deserving of an Oscar.Chris Morris has given this movie a very powerful effect due to they way his scenes change quickly from comedy to serious ones. This keeps the funny side of the movie but also maintains the story line.Someone please give this movie a f***ing Oscar.

When I read about this movie's release my first thought was that it was sick, too soon and probably incredibly offensive on every level. To my surprise when I actually got around to watching it, I thought it was a wonderfully judged film. The performances were uniformly good and the script was funny. To find offence in a piece like this is the viewer's fault rather than the moviemaker's. I was really amused by it all and it did not shy away from the horrors of terrorism either. A really difficult tightrope to negotiate was done with ease (at least it appeared to be with ease) I daresay Chris Morris worked hard to get it just right, because it would have been so easy to completely miss the mark and end up with a truly offensive item.