Originally posted by Dogg Thang
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Last night I watched The Day Will Come. A bit of an odd duck this one. It's by Chris Morris, and it's not a million miles away in subject from his previous joint, Four Lions. Set in Miami, the story follows preacher, commune leader, and Black Jihadist Moses, a harmless, penniless oddball who lives on an urban 'farm' with his family and two nice-but-dim acolytes.
His life changes when he's approached by someone claiming to be from Al Qaeda, who offers him money and guns to build an army to fight the jihad fight. Except they're not really from Al Qaeda - they're from the FBI, and they're trying to entrap him.
It's a film of two halves - the hapless, chaotic, cynical FBI team's machinations as they try to trap Moses is well done and very, VERY 'Thick Of It'. But the stuff with Moses I don't feel quite worked. There wasn't enough to hang your hat on in terms of the characterisation of anyone but Moses himself, and the sequences showing his strange life were too wacky for its own good, to the point of being unrelatable.
It's quite funny, and certainly original, but it doesn't quite land. It's all a bit Four Lions lite.
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