MOVIEmeter
Top 5000
Down 179 this week

Four Lions (2010)

 -  Comedy | Drama  -  7 May 2010 (UK)
7.3
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 7.3/10 from 35,507 users   Metascore: 68/100
Reviews: 122 user | 229 critic | 28 from Metacritic.com

Four incompetent British jihadists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.

Director:

Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 2369 titles created 4 months ago
 
a list of 703 titles created 03 May 2011
 
a list of 580 titles created 16 Jul 2011
 
a list of 10000 titles created 2 months ago
 
a list of 954 titles created 9 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Four Lions (2010)

Four Lions (2010) on IMDb 7.3/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Four Lions.
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 19 nominations. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  

Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.

Director: Jason Reitman
Stars: Joan Lunden, Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright
Submarine (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.

Director: Richard Ayoade
Stars: Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Craig Roberts
Argo (2012)
Drama | History | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.

Director: Ben Affleck
Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin
50/50 (2011)
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

Director: Jonathan Levine
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick
Rushmore (1998)
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  

The king of Rushmore prep school is put on academic probation.

Director: Wes Anderson
Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  

A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

Director: Craig Gillespie
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that.

Director: John Hughes
Stars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  

Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their father into their family life.

Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Stars: Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  

A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.

Director: Alexander Payne
Stars: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  

An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when one of their member announces he has a terminal illness.

Director: Wes Anderson
Stars: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller
Comedy | War
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.6/10 X  

An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Comedy | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

Director: Thomas McCarthy
Stars: Peter Dinklage, Paul Benjamin, Bobby Cannavale
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
...
Waj
...
...
Adeel Akhtar ...
Faisal
...
Mohammad Aqil ...
...
Karl Seth ...
Waleed Elgadi ...
Khalid (as Willliam El-Gardi)
...
Malcolm Storge MP (as Alex MacQueen)
Shameem Ahmad ...
Chairwoman
...
...
Wasim Zakir ...
Jonathan Maitland ...
Newsreader (as Jonny Maitland)
Edit

Storyline

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. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that-while terrorism is about ideology-it can also be about idiots. Written by Sundance Film Festival

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Genres:

Comedy | Drama

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language throughout, including some sexual references | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Official Sites:

Country:

|

Language:

| |

Release Date:

7 May 2010 (UK)  »

Also Known As:

Cztery lwy  »

Filming Locations:

 »

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$41,512 (USA) (5 November 2010)

Gross:

$304,137 (USA) (18 February 2011)
 »

Company Credits

Production Co:

, ,  »
Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

On the DVD wait in the deleted scenes menu until the seagull appears and then press enter. This will take you to a further menu featuring more bonus materials. See more »

Goofs

The "lions" travel to London to detonate their devices at the London Marathon. However, the streets clearly show signs for Sheffield traders - including many 0114 (Sheffield) telephone numbers. Additionally, the double decker buses are the wrong color. See more »

Quotes

Barry: [after starting a discussion about training camps] I object to the term training camps!
See more »

Crazy Credits

One sheep was blown up in the making of this film See more »

Connections

References First Blood (1982) See more »

Soundtracks

"Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, OP 95 'From The New World'"
By Antonín Dvorák
Performed by Berliner Philharmoniker
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophone Gmbh under license from Universal Music Group
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
Brave Black Comedy
10 May 2010 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

Home grown Asian suicide bombers are not an obvious choice for Comedy. But Director Chris Morris makes a surprisingly good job of it in a work which is skilfully written and performed. The best humour has a ring of truth about it. And so it is true here. The plot moves from satire, to slapstick to straight forwards storytelling, and back, at quite a pace leaving the audience to make its own mind up about whether certain bits are intended to be funny, or just turn out that way. That ambiguity is probably the film's strongest suit.

A strong cast of Jihadists struggle to get a team together, struggle to get to a Training Camp in Pakistan from which they are sent home in disgrace, indeed they struggle to complete any task successfully. Yet they are not portrayed as buffoons. Never before has Muslim culture been lampooned like this, yet Morris shows it in such a way that they are Everyman jokes and should not cause offence to anyone.

The fact that this is low budget works to its advantage. The script and acting win and the documentary style filming gives it an authenticity which is vital for the humour to prosper. Riz Ahmed stars as Chief Jihadist Omar, but Nigel Lindsay steals the show as a Caucasian Muslim convert. Preeya Kalidas has a frustrating, underwritten role as Omar's wife. A nurse, and a mother we never really get her insight into the prospect of her husband, and father of her son, embracing martyrdom, even though she pokes fun at an over zealous cleric when he visits their home.

At 100 minutes, the film ends when it needs to, in dramatic and compelling style and does not out stay its welcome. For some this will not be funny enough, for others it will simply be in poor taste. But we should be proud that this sort of comedy simply could not be made in America, and is the first cinematic attempt to deal with a relatively new, and disturbing, social phenomena.


53 of 72 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Greatest one liner in movie history: timhall989
Terrible 1/10 centurion1986
How on Earth can anybody NOT find this hilarious? MCShaghard
Was Omar a moral person? purrshaped
We shot the right man, but the wrong man blew himself up wcpeezy12
Anyone from Sheffield? ousside
Discuss Four Lions (2010) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?