>>Nostalgia For Infinity

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Chris Morris makes his directorial debut with Four Lions, a film satirising homegrown British terrorists (and, to a lesser extent, British anti-terror efforts). It’s been eagerly awaited since its announcement several years ago, particularly by fans of Morris’s work in television and radio. Has it been worth that wait?

On one level… yes. It’s a consistently funny, clever and well-paced film. It lampoons the broken individuals that make up the tiny terror cell its story follows at the same time as making them, for the most part, sympathetic. Omar and Waj are close friends and have been, we assume, for most of their lives. Omar is something of a firebrand and is the leader of the group as he’s brighter than the rest of them – though not by much. Waj is a dim bloke who rarely seems to entirely grasp the severity and reality of the situations he finds himself in. Then there is Faisal, who by all accounts is a simpleton who tags along through not belonging anywhere else, and Hassan, the cell’s most recent convert who seems torn between youth culture and protest. Finally, there is Barry, a convert to Islam who appears to be angry about absolutely everything and confused about almost as much. In essence, they are a band of bullies and idiots, and the film is a catalogue of their failures leading up to an attempt to outdo the infamous London 7/7 bombings.

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