Not a patch on Four Lions, but you can never go too far wrong with Chris Morris
Written by Chris Morris and Jesse Armstrong and directed by Morris, The Day Shall Come is inspired by real-life incidents such as the Liberty City Seven and the Newburgh Sting, and aims its satirical ire at the FBI and how they conduct themselves in relation to terrorist cells within the US. And as one would expect from Morris, it's darkly comic until it turns deadly series, a transition that drives home the concept that, yes, what the FBI is doing is farcical and satire-worthy, but so too is it destroying lives, and that isn't especially funny. It's a very delicate balancing act, but Morris pulls it off for the most part. As politicians, journalists, and law enforcement scramble to turn the entire planet into a Harold Pinter play, Morris's is a voice that deserves to be heard, and although The Day Shall Come isn't a patch on the superb Four Lions, it's still a bitingly funny study of institutionalised paranoia, garnished with some good old-fashioned racism.
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Chris Morris uses research of real-world cases to provide an indictment of FBI counter-terror sting operations and groupthink.
How does crap like this get green-lit?
A painfully heavy-handed attempt to make a cutting insight into how terrorists are created out of delusional people...?
Unfunny, one-trick pony, poor direction, poor acting, weak all round.
And to use Prince's "The Cross" is sacrilegious in material this poor.
It had a small message. As badly executed and brought to the screen as it was. And I would have expected better from Chris Morris. Just a waste of everyone's time really.
2/10
Brilliant black comedy. You laugh and instantly feel bad for doing so.
The satire is cutting and unfortunately always timely, even if not really handled with subtlety.
Highlight of the movie for me was Kayvan Novak's character, also a standout in What We Do in the Shadows.
Shout by Lee Brown Barrow Movie BuffVIP 3BlockedParent2020-06-08T19:16:43Z
Occasionally funny but not as clever as Morris probably think it is. As with his previous film, Four Lions, this did nothing to move, stimulate, or intrigue me.