Sunday, April 1, 2007

Hot Fuzz



Hot Fuzz, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (of Shaun of the Dead fame) is the story of London cop Nicholas Angel, who after performing his job better than anyone else on the force (400% better) is sent to the lovely village of Sandford.

Nicholas is annoyed, but despite his protestations he is sent anyway, and soon begins to lay down his very strict adherence to the law in the small community. Soon a rash of accidents crop up, and Nicholas begins to see a pattern emerge, but the rest of the town refuses to listen to the murder happy cop from London. He befriends Danny Buttterman, a stooge on the local police force who has seen a million melodramatic cop movies and wants desperately to live out one himself.

As the story unfolds, Sandford turns out to be everything other than what it seems, and Angel decides to take matters into his own hands.


I didn't quite know what to expect from this movie. The trailer seemed to suggest a bloodbath of hysterical proportions, and I certainly wasn't let down there. But it wasn't just silly farcical humor, it was rather clever at times. There are excellent cameos from Bill Nighy (most recently Davy Jones of Pirates of the Caribbean) and Steve Coogan (most recently of Night at the Museum), and a wealth of other fantastic British actors, Jim Broadbent plays a dubious villain undone by the unlikliest of heroes.

It's by far the cleverest and most funny move I've seen yet this year, and I urge you all to check it out when it hits US shores on April 20th. You'll get comedy, mystery, and enough action to make Jerry Bruckheimer's hair stand on end.

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