“This plays like a penny whistle jammed up an orangutan’s butt.” Lines like that come easy to English writer-director Chris Morris, whose satirical sensibility has made him one of “Veep” creator Ar…
, whose satirical sensibility has made him one of “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci’s inner-circle collaborators and a bit of a controversy magnet in his own right.
Ideally, the South Florida FBI would spend their time stopping credible threats to national security, but in the absence of any such schemes, they decide to pressure an informant into approaching a hapless would-be radical named Moses Al Shabazz and nudge him in the direction of breaking the law so that they can stop him.
By far the best thing about “The Day Shall Come” is Morris’ discovery of Davis as Moses . This is one hell of a way to launch a potential movie-star career, but Davis possesses both the magnetism to make credible his role as leader of a religious group and the comic gifts to sell the character’s cuckoo beliefs.
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