Chris Morris is back
Brilliant!
Four Lions is loosely based on the Leeds jihadist cell that killed 52 London commuters on July 7 2005.
But the suicide bombers in Morris’s film are far from hardline fundamentalists; instead, they are portrayed as hopeless amateurs who stumble into extremism.
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Controversial: Four Lions is loosely based on the Leeds jihadist cell that struck on 7/7. Here the fictional extremists prepare for their suicide attacks disguised in costumes such as Cookie Monster and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Like the 7/7 cell, the film’s four would-be jihadists plan a series of suicide attacks in the capital, during the London Marathon.
The result is a comedy that is likely to upset many cinemagoers when it is released later this year.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245887/Four-Lions-Controversial-Chris-Morris-jihadist-comedy-bumbling-suicide-bombers-premieres.html#ixzz0dwNl7izd
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