Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Four Lions (R) 6.5

Four Lions (2010): Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. (7.4)

Director: Christopher Morris
Stars: Will Adamsdale, Riz Ahmed and Adeel Akhtar

We don't have a Pakistani sub-culture in the US like that of UK. This movie takes a lot of nuances from the South Asian (they call them Asian in England) groups and makes valid points as well as hilarious situations. Wonderfully done. Funny. Morbidly so, at times. I wish I had the subtitles, because the British mumble-speak is difficult to understand at times, specially when they switch between English and Urdu really fast. My Rating: 6.5