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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterA hilarious farce and a brilliant takedown of the imbecility of fanaticism.
- 80EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanGuaranteed to offend a lot of folks across the political and belief spectrum, but consistently funny and horribly to the point. A sit-com spin-off is probably not on the cards, though.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFour Lions is impossible to categorize. It's an exceedingly dark comedy, a wicked satire, a thriller where the thrills center on the incompetence of the villains.
- 70MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekThe idea, in the end, is that even lovable loonies can do a lot of damage.
- 63Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaWhen it works - and it doesn't half the time - it's as if Monty Python were back, putting its merrily imbecilic stamp on the dark world of terrorism.
- 60Time OutNicolas RapoldTime OutNicolas RapoldWhile these ninnies' antics and banter are remarkably entertaining, the quality of the satire depends on when the movie is sending up ludicrous extremist logic and when it's just engaging in repetitive buffoonery.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleProbably the world's first jihad terrorist comedy, Four Lions is a daring, brilliantly conceptualized film, but like the bumbling bombers of the title, the execution tends to be hit-and-miss.
- 50Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrReal satire must be savage, and Four Lions, for all its daring, finally doesn't dare enough.
- 25New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoIf all terrorists were like these idiots, the US would have nothing to worry about.