Four Lions

This is funny look at terrorism and terrorists. And by funny I mean hilarious with great insight into why youngsters are drawn towards killing others and themselves for Jihaad. This was made way before ISIS came into being and started attracting idiotic youth from across the world to come and get killed in extremely stupid ways. In other words this was a film a bit before its time, and what it showed has actually come true in the past six years. Unfortunately for the rest of the world. 

What the young terrorists are doing today is not funny from any angle, but the reason they want to do it is quite silly, moronic. 72 virgins? They really think 72 virgins will greet them in heaven after they have slaughtered innocents? That they will become martyrs and heroes? Quite foolish, don't you think? 

This film is about four such youngsters from Britain who want to fight the silly fight. They want to become terrorists by committing an act of terror in Britain. They want to blow up

the London Marathon. And for that they have to train themselves on how to become a terrorist.

Unfortunately there are no training courses or books about this growing field, as yet. But yes one can travel to certain countries and get the training and become  MTA (Master of Terrorism Administration - just kidding, no such a degree exists, as yet).

Four Lions is about these four youngsters who think they are Lions, but are actually quite funny pussies (I mean, little cats, no pun intended). 

The film follows as these four youngsters go about training to become terrorists and then finally try to carry out the act of terrorism. For most part the film is a comedy as we look at how these guys train, and their bickering, and how they deal with each other in the group. It seems all quite normal except that the training to be killers. Quite funny, all this. 

But as the film approaches its end, it does turn serious, and ends on a high note becoming a thought-provoking film. 

In short, this is a funny film, yet it has tremendous depth and mirrors reality. What's more, by the end I was feeling for the guys. I mean they were terrorists, yet I wanted them to live, to understand what they were doing was wrong. Making the audience feel for the terrorists? Brilliant work!

In my book, this is a rare, exceptional film. A must watch.

Four Lions