“The Day Shall Come ends with the inevitable showdown between Moses and law enforcement. Primed by Four Lions, I waited for the bang. The confrontation is a heart-stopping moment, but so too is the realisation that the assault rifles and sniper scopes are pointed in the wrong direction. Poor, naive Moses was never a major threat to America – just like Brother Naz couldn’t bring down the Sears Tower with a horse and $50,000 hustled from a wife-beating informant. But while the FBI targets drifters and fantasists, somewhere out there, a white man is loading a rifle or packing a pipe bomb. Once again, Chris Morris has demonstrated that “terrorism” is a label to tell us who we are allowed to find terrifying.”
On Chris Morris’s new film, The Day Shall Come (New Statesman)