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The Day Shall Come (2019)
Sadly lacking
The film will get you in your seat because of how much it leans on you previously enjoying Four Lions and sadly this film doesn't live up to it. Instead I have to compare to Four Lions to say where it goes wrong.
Unlike Four Lions there is no real character to attach yourself to. In FL Omar is a relatively smart man, leading idiots in his terrorist plans but in this movie everyone is played as an idiot in some form or another which makes everything feel so slapstick.
There's also no real plot. In FL we're watching would be terrorists try to act out an attack, there's no real narrative here. It's directionless and at no point do you care about anything that's going on. You're just a long for the ride.
There's some good comedy to be had but it's paced poorly compared to FL and with the movie ending on a maybe an even darker ending than FL it means you leave the cinema with a fairly down experience with the message being thrown down your throat compared to how subtle FL was.
Overall it might be worth giving it a go if you like Four Lions, you'll seem some similarities but honestly I'd say don't bother, go watch that instead and you'll feel more enriched.
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
A great film if not with the best of marketing
OK, well to start, this is a great film, if I was to compare to In Brudge then OK, maybe not as touching or as intelligent a film, mainly due to it being a lot more detailed (somewhat complex to) and much more of a main stream feel to it, but it easily trumps it in dark humor, this has it in spades
I think one of the let downs to this movie in itself is the trailer and the movie's UK rating of a 15, it should probably be an 18 or better yet they should have done a edit that removed a number of scenes, now this might seem like me just being up tight about violence/gore but generally I think it took time away from the great plot and characters.
Firstly, the trailer, it's so miss leading, OK the title says psychopaths not kittens (or as they joke in the move lesbians) but generally if you watch it you'll think hey this will probably be a funny movie with some gun shot fired here and there maybe some fighting, it isn't at the least, which is silly why market a film as being softer than it is? it just upsets those who think it is and makes the people who would love this film over look it for having a trailer that is generic and similar to other movies. The 7 people listed in the film aren't even the psychopaths... who ever cut and produced the trailer obviously just wanted the simplest trailer going for the widest of audiences.
Now... *MILD SPOILERS* Two of the 7 psychos aren't very useful to the plot and they also lead to the most graphic levels of violence in the movie, we're talking, Ichy and Scratchy from the Simpsons acted out with real people basically. It was OK but lets say my girlfriend was very unhappy at this point (I'm surprised she didn't walk) and even I couldn't look at these points. I assumed the couple would be apart of the plot later on and they weren't so it kind of annoyed me that I had to go through that for no pay off at all, just an intro of two characters and a good 10 minutes wasted. It also became quite clear after that the film was fine until they would cut to a 'dream' sequence part where it was going to be in some way bloody. I'm still quite surprised at how this passed as a 15 considering just how full on the gore was.
The funny thing is, despite the dark scenes, my girlfriend laughed pretty good and quite frequently a long the way, I don't think she'll ever watch it again but it's still a testament to the quality of the humor it has to offer.
In the end it makes me wonder if the violence had been more suggested than graphic we'd have a film that left us talking more about how great the characters are compared to just how disturbing some of the images were. Still if you like sharp humor and don't get too bothered about seeing people dismembered in multiple ways I think you'll have a hard time not having a positive outlook over this movie.