The Day Shall Come by Christopher Morris - Nine out of 10

The Day Shall Come by Christopher Morris

Nine out of 10

This is not the best motion picture of the year, although it could be the best comedy, but it is surely worth watching and enjoying the unusual, creative, outré humor and plot.

Marchant Davis is fantastic, charming and in this cinephile’s view, he is the one that carries the movie, making it distinguished, remarkable, under the direction of Christopher Davis, the one that has shown his extraordinary talent with Four Lions.

Marchant Davis has the challenging, complex role of Moses, a quixotic preacher, who makes some unfortunate, rather tragic choices, but is overall more of a positive character.

Moses would be hilarious, albeit also a tad ludicrous, when he thinks that the short circuit caused by a storm, the lightning and shocks resulting from natural phenomena might be in fact a projection of his powers.

He is modest in that he thinks that it is the horse that had a role in it and yes, he rides a horse and dresses at times in funny, if preposterous costumes, sitting on a table on one occasion, to talk to an FBI informer that is bent on selling him weapons.

The hero is a peaceful man and Venus, his wife, helps him stay that way, up to the point where the FBI seems to push him into terrorist territory, making him buy what he does not want.

Given the conditions attached to the money that the alleged Arab prince would provide, Moses has the option of getting some Kalashnikovs with the greenbacks or nothing.

The bank would not sign for a loan and faced with his family’s eviction, the protagonist decides to take the money and the Kalashnikovs, but the latter would be used for the fence, buried in concrete.

One of his comrades wants something like an X ray gun and thus they get into another kerfuffle, giving the impression that they are interested in something serious:

Uranium!

A meeting is arranged with white supremacists and the result is outrageous in its absurdity, with racists trying to get a nuclear weapon from African Americans…

However, the white racists are in fact working for the law and try to get Moses and his group in a trap and arrest them, up to the point where they do take them in custody for…

Just a few minutes, because the FBI calls and then they have to release them and the preacher thinks again that he has done this with the help of God, who gave him supernatural powers.

When the false Arab prince asks about the people he can gather, Moses and his army prove to be unimpressive in their magic numbers, for he says that he will have…

Three people in his army, maybe four