2010 · comedy · drama · crime
Four Lions
Directed by Chris Morris1h 37m2010
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.
Our read: Four Lions (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- funny
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