The poster tag line describes it as a film based on a hundred true stories but I am quite sure it will be like none you have seen before. Post 9/11 the FBI are desperate for convictions relating to terrorism. So much so that they actively use informants to trap less than dangerous delusional types into acts that give them cause to arrest them. Cue Moses (Marchant Davis), a mentally ill man who speaks to animals and runs a community farm that is failing. He abhors guns and that puts a massive crimp on the FBI’s plans to sell them to him, but they can do one better with nuclear materials.

The Day Shall Come is from the creative mind of Christopher Morris. Best known for television shows Brass Eye and The Day Today and for 2010’s Four Lions. He is a satirist with a cult following and someone whose humour will either click with you or not. The cinema screening I went to had a peculiar feel where half the audience were rapt with laughter (including myself) and the other half clearly wondering why the rest of us were laughing, including those that walked out during the screening! This is a farce about the FBI and police railroading mentally ill and impoverished people in order to score points on convictions in the wake of terrorist paranoia.

The best moments probably come from the FBI task force bickering with each other and discussing how it is best if you do not say the contradictory statements too close together when describing the situation. Anna Kendrick, Denis O’Hare and Adam Thompson’s back and forth is hilarious. Whilst their informants arguing over getting their expense payments processed and trying to one up each other is also funny stuff.

This is satire at its most biting and blackest with an absolutely brutal ending. But I can guarantee it is not for those who are not already fans of Morris’ style.