Amusing and frequently hilarious Jihadi tragi-comedy about a group of would-be Fundamentalist terrorists. Western Imperialism is mercilessly ragged as the cause of Eastern terrorism while the inadequacy of both homegrown terrorism and the British security services is speared to great effect. Given that terrorism is an intractable problem since White culture remains resolutely White supremacist, there is nothing one can do but laugh at the corner we have painted ourselves into.
And laugh this film does, from innocent bystanders shot by trigger-happy police marksmen, to a morbid fixation on both torture and painting Muslims as fanatics; from incompetent bombers blowing themselves up to paranoiac conspiracy theories about Jews inventing spark plugs to control global automobile traffic.
This is an ideas film so the characters are rather weak despite the excellent dead-pan comic performances. The comedy is as black as Dr Strangelove, and strangest of all, the point made so well here is that hardly anyone in this film has any real idea what they are doing and why.
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