4 Lions

4 Lions is very interesting film to me for a few reasons. One would be that it’s set in Sheffield England which is near to where I come from; two is that the characters are all Muslims that become suicide bombers and finally... everything I said.  It just seems like a funny concept when you put it that way. It’s completely hilarious along the way. They all eventually turn out to get materials which allow them to make explosives. They then try to decide on what to use these explosives for.

There’s one scene where the explosives are in bags and they are trying not to drop the bags and bring them safely home without getting caught. In which one guy who is friends with of the Muslims throws one of the bags left behind and it’s either catch it or be killed, and it’s things like that which get in the ways and make the film funny.  It actually ends up with them attacking the London Marathon with them dressing up as existing characters such as a mutant turtle and the honey monster, thing is they have the bombs strapped around them all. Earlier in the film they are shown trying not to get caught in which they eat their SIM cards out of their phones simply because they are electronic and can be tracked. Later on the during the marathon however they get themselves into all kinds of trouble, I can’t help but think that the film was inspired all the crap you see on TV where foreigners are threatening to bomb places etc, which is wrong but it sort of based on that but it shows how we mostly stereo type these people in exact similar ways and they aren’t all like this.

The ending however was quite surprising, I thought it would of ended in the way of getting what they actually want but I didn’t quite understand that they wanted to become suicide bombers? It actually all ends up with them all dying, but the way they all die is made funny and it’s okay to laugh at all of them because it obviously not real. One guy eats the other guys SIM card and then when he starts t choke on it someone attempts to help him bring it back up but when he grabs hold of him and squeezes, it sets the bomb off and all you see is this mutant ninja turtle head come falling down. One of them and to quote the words says: “he fell over a sheep and exploded”, it’s just so funny all the way through and has that great British comedic sense of humour about it which I like. I felt kind of unfair that they all died in the end, two of them are brothers and one of them dies while in a restaurant but the thing is because the other brother has had his SIM card eaten he can’t contact the other brother, and so it ends with the older brother jumping into a local boots store and exploding to death, again even for the final death and ending to show it still managed to be funny.

It’s a good comedy but it sort of shows you the kind of things these people go through I thought besides all the comedy, I was well done and I would put it near the top of best films I’ve seen, I think one of the biggest things in this is that you become connected to the characters in which I’ve previously talked about before, talking about how you become connected to the personalities of the characters and the things they get up to and even the environments they are in, such as a certain scene were they in Pakistan hiding from helicopters hovering above and firing rocket launchers into the middle of nowhere , having no knowledge of how to properly use the equipment, causing disasters and getting themselves into more bother. Just brilliant!