A group of mostly young British Muslims (Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar & Arsher Ali) from Sheffield resolve to bring Jihad to the UK.
No good will come of this.
CW: darker than dark comedic take on a serious subject that skirts being offensive
Chris Morris of Brass Eye fame tackles the big topic of the noughties: Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism and "The War on Terror".
What you get is classic "English Lads being rubbish but endearing" but while planning a suicide bombing. It's got the sort of quickfire comedic dialogue and farce you'd expect from a movie about a rubbish band on tour or a stag do gone wrong but terrorism. Inbetweeners with IEDs.
It's laugh out loud funny but you sort of feel guilty while doing so. There's common ground with things like Jo Jo Rabbit here but this gets its comedy from believeably real (but exaggerated) characters rather than whimsy.
Now a decade later it still has impact but maybe not as much as it once would have.
It's very very British, Film4 as fuck.
9/10 highly recommended but like I said gets its impact from being borderline offensive