Marchant Davis
- Actor
Press clippings
The Day Shall Come: review by Mark Kermode
Chris Morris's overcooked FBI farce.
Mark Kermode, The Observer, 13th October 2019The Day Shall Come review
Desperate Feds take on cult in sly Chris Morris satire.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 11th October 2019Film review: The Day Shall Come
If this was a first time director, or a normally workmanlike one like Ron Howard, it'd no doubt get praise for the directions it takes, but this is Chris Morris we're talking about, and a film we've waited nine years for, so it's incredibly frustrating that it's a flawed creation. And though the ending is powerful and the points it makes are important ones, I miss the Chris Morris who could do all of those things while also maintaining an incredibly high joke rate, and I just hope that whatever he does next is a return to those times, and that we don't have to wait quite so long for such an event too.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 11th October 2019Review: The Day Shall Come
Chris Morris follow up to Four Lions mocks the conventions of the US War on Terror - The Day Shall Come shows just how much we've missed him, says Cath Clarke.
Cath Clarke, The Big Issue, 11th October 2019Review: The Day Shall Come
Chris Morris's latest film might have its heart in the right place, but lacks direction and fails to deliver on an ambitious premise, says Linda Marric.
Linda Marric, The Jewish Chronicle, 11th October 2019There's a bit of a dog-whistle quality to Chris Morris's new film The Day Shall Come. The maverick British satirist's first film since the excellent Four Lions finds him taking aim at the institutional ineptitude and systemic racism of America's security services, zeroing in on a plausibly absurd scheme by the FBI to meet its counter-terrorism targets by entrapping a delusional but harmless black revolutionary preacher (a wonderfully guileless performance by Marchánt Davis) into becoming an arms dealer, even though he's against guns and really just wants to use his fledgling movement to prevent gentrification in his Miami neighbourhood. As the FBI agent who targets him, realises her mistake then finds herself unable to right her wrong without ruining her career, Anna Kendrick leads a more-than-capable cast, but both the script and the performances fall back on that bumbling, throw-away style familiar from TV shows such as The Thick of It and Veep and neither the humour nor the horror it's trying to expose really connects with the current moment. It plays more like a film about the Bush/Cheney era than Trump's America.
Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 10th October 2019The Day Shall Come: review
Marchánt Davis gives a star-making performance in Chris Morris's half-baked satire.
Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 10th October 2019The Day Shall Come: has Chris Morris lost his edge?
A new film by Chris Morris ought to be an event. The agent provocateur of Brass Eye infamy has tended to rustle feathers and spark debate, whatever he does. His last film, Four Lions, dared to find comedy in Islamic terrorism in 2010, when so many wounds were still so fresh. But that was almost a decade ago, and the signs are that Morris is losing his edge, while also in dire need of a new topic.
Demetrios Matheou, i Newspaper, 10th October 2019Review: The Day Shall Come
I expected to laugh like a drain but instead, it was just an occasional gurgle.
Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 10th October 2019The Day Shall Come review
The truth is stranger than fiction in Chris Morris' first film since 2010's Four Lions.
Steven Sheehan, The Digital Fix, 8th October 2019