Hot Fuzz(UK age certificate: 15)
If anyone has the chance go and see
Hot Fuzz, it is one of the funniest films I've seen since
Shaun of the Dead.
The story follows Police Sergeant Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), a brilliant policeman...sorry, police officer who is so good that he makes the rest of the Metropolitan police service (the London ones) look bad. He's sent to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford, which has the lowest crime rate in the country. However not is all as quiet as it seems as soon a spate of grizzly deaths start occuring in the village. Sergeant Angel teamed up with an inexperienced Police Constable Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) believes that there is murder afoot.
Hot Fuzz is from the makers of
Shaun of the Dead and is done in a
similar vain. This time the target of their spoofing isn't zombie
flicks but cop films. Car chases, foot chases, gun battles, explosions, everything you'd expect in a Hollywood blockbuster is here...but in small village in England. The first eighty minutes of the two hour movie has more of the investigation / detective side of cop films, plenty of jokes and dark humour to be had here. The last forty minutes though is pretty much non-stop action. They've merged all the American action cop films and transplanted them into rural England to great effect and humour. For instance in America their car chases are done with big, powerful, V8 muscle cars driving very quickly down crowded streets and highways, here it's done by two, diesel hatchbacks.
The acting is good with fine performances by Pegg and Frost, who are at the heart of the movie. Plus they are ably supported by top quality British actors both comic and serious. One of the best performances goes to Timothy Dalton who plays the local supermarket owner.
All round this is a fine and very funny movie; definitely one to watch.
Scratchit: But he's a cripple!
Blackadder: He's not a cripple, Mrs Scratchit. Occasionally saying "Phew! My leg hurts!" when he remembers to wouldn't fool Baldrick!
