Movie Review - Hot Fuzz
“Hot Fuzz” (2007) is one of those movies that is destined for B-rated classic humor, in the same way that Office Space, The Burbs, or Mystery Men are destined to be forgotten “those 2000s” movies.
The movie starts slowly, with highly decorated policeman Sergeant Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) being sent away from London to Sandford (no, it doesn’t actually exist, I checked Google Maps), a quaint country town with a crime rate of 0%. It’s everything he doesn’t want, but he limps off to the country, good officer that he is, toting his Peace Lily all the way.
His first day on the job involves a man named P.I. Staker and a missing swan. Angel quickly becomes restless and sick of dim-bulb partner, Danny Butterman (Nick Frost). After nabbing a shoplifter, Angel becomes very surprised when the shop owner chooses to not press chargers. Even more confusing is a quick succession of fatal accidents, leading Angel to suspect foul play. The townspeople offer no support, and refuse to consider anything suggesting murder.
After a while, the pieces start to fall into place, and Angel soon has no choice but to single-handedly expose the rest of the force to an enemy no one believed was there.
After the first 45 or so minutes of classic Shaun of the Dead style humor, the movie really gets comfortable being a cop movie, and starts to pick up pace. Excellent directing and well thought out cinematography keep the movie from slowing down too much, even when the most exciting thing on screen is an ice cream cone. As the movie crashes down the final roller-coaster sequence, we realize that this more than a parody of a cop movie, it’s actually a great cop movie all by itself.
Score: 4.6/5.0
Good like: Shaun of the Dead, The Burbs, Mystery Men, Office Space, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Back to the Future, Terminator, Scream, IT Crowd.
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I think if I knew about the action before watching the movie, I wouldn’t like it so much. But since I just flat out watched it without hearing anything about it, it was funny, because all of a sudden they were blazing guns in the middle of a peace town.