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Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Christopher Morris
Production: Drafthouse Films
  Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 8 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
2010
97 min
$308,769
Website
2,022 Views


What Im saying, if youll listen,

is that if they didnt exist,

you people would have to invent them.

- Thats absolute rubbish.

- Yeah, man.

- This whole debate is twisted, man.

- Well take questions later, please.

You think were all bombers, dont you?

- That is absolutely...

- No, no, no.

When you look at someone like me,

you think 'bomber ', right?

- Yeah, you do.

- That is not the case.

Why shouldnt I be a bomber

if you treat me like one?

- Mashallah, brother.

- Yeah, Mashallah.

Yeah.

I'm the Mujahideen

and I'm making a scene

Now you's gonna feel

what the boom-boom means

It's like Tupac said,

"When I die, I'm not dead"

We are the martyrs,

you 're just smashed tomatoes

Allahu Akbar!

Mashallah, brother.

Oh, what, man? Come on.

What? Just cos Im Muslim,

you thought it was real?

Oh, here they come!

Here come your stooges, Mr. Storge.

Police state! Police state!

Police state! Police state!

Remember my name, brothers and sisters.

Im going to Cuba!

Hes being rendered!

Hes being rendered!

Hey, bro, bro. Down here.

Need a lift?

Yeah, man. Wait. Yeah.

Oh, man!

Yo!

Youre a lege. Youre a lege, bro!

Not so bad yourself, brother.

Whats your name?

Hassan Malik. 'The Mal '.

- The Mal?

- Yeah.

Nice little stunt back there.

And you know what?

Youre a total piece of sh*t, mate.

Youre worse than the specially trained

rapists they use in Guantnamo.

- You what?

- Yeah, youre not ignorant like them!

You know you should be doing something.

- I am doing something.

- What, that?

I'm the Mujahideen and...

thingy, thingy, rap, rap

Eh?

It was jihad of the mind,

the gesture that messed yer.

Was the prophet, Sal Allaahu

Alayhi wa Sallam, about gestures?

Hm? Did he smash the pagan statues

or did he just stand there,

making a gesture?

Is this a gesture?

- That was for real, brother.

- Yeah...

Is you as for real as that?

- Yeah.

- How often do you go to mosque?

When I can. Most weeks. Friday prayers.

Once a year is too often.

The mosques have lost it, brother.

Theyre full of losers and spies.

These are real bad times, bro.

Islam is cracking up.

We got women talking back.

We got people playing stringed instruments.

Its the end of days.

Do you want to be for real?

Well, yeah, of course.

Are you sure?

Yeah, come here.

F*** you, Omar!

Big enough for you now, Barry?

Am I blowing a dog in a ditch

or am I Paki Rambo?

Im getting my pictures, Mujahid-style.

- James F*** Bond?

- No, no.

What the f*** are you doing, Waj?

Stay here and clean the guns.

No, no, listen. We need an Al Qaeda emir.

It was my fault, bro, OK?

Let Omar go.

You f***ing Mr. Beans.

- But we havent got an emir yet.

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